Registry error in Win 95.

[Artois]

Hi guys,
got a problem with a friend's PC running Win 95. Machine got a BSOD, so he re-started and then got a message at the front of windows saying there was a problem with the registry - to re-boot the PC and windows would restart. He followed the instructions and the same thing happened. In fact, it's the only thing that happens. Any ideas ?

Cheers,

Artois.

 

[tesh]

It seems that you may need to boot into DOS and restore the registry, Win95 backs up the registy. I can't rember of the top of my head what its called.

But i do believe that the Win95 OEM Book (with the Licence on the front) told you how to do this.

Tesh >:O>
(no to helpfull on this occasion)

 

[Rhort]

The old backups of the Registry in '95 are called SYSTEM.DA0 and USER.DA0 (the last character in each instance there is a ZERO). Rename your USER.DAT to USER.XXX and your SYSTEM.DAT to SYSTEM.XXX, then rename the .DA0 files to .DAT respectively. That will restore your registry.