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Golford
21st Aug 2002, 14:52
All of a sudden this machine has started giving the following:

On start up it loads through to the last moment then I get

"Windows encountered an error accessing the system registry. Windows will restart and repair the system registry for you"

after which it restarts and comes up with a DOS page and the text

"Windows found an error in your system files and restored a recent backup of the files to fix the problem"

it then restarts and runs normally until I restart the machine next time when it goes throughthe same rigmarole.

Has anyone any bright ideas how to fix this, I've tried a full surface scan/repair and defrag, to no avail.

Glad of any advice.

Windows 98, NAV 2000 + updates, nothing new installed recently. My other hard disk ( I have a removable disk ) works fine.

ORAC
21st Aug 2002, 14:59
Microsoft (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q201655&)

Golford
21st Aug 2002, 18:58
Thanks mate. First good gen today.

Ausatco
22nd Aug 2002, 13:21
Thanks ORAC.

I had a 6mb system.dat, 900kb user.dat (the two files that make the registry). I did what MS said in the link you provided and my registry has been considerably cleaned and consolidated. File sizes are now 5mb and 800kb. Doesn't seem much of a change, but the machine is measurably quicker.

Cheers

AA