Registry problem - Urgent!!
 

For a while now my PC has been slow to boot up, to try to improve the situation I did a "System Recovery". Ouch.

Managed to delete the driver(s) for the DSL modem - however, when I've tried to reinstall it using the installation CD it would not install the drivers - giving me the following message:

Can't Get Registry Value:
Key=Software\GlobespanVirata\Adsl
Value=driverType

What's going on? What can I do to fix it?

Arrrgh!!!

It didn't speed up the boot process either.

See here

VERY happy to advise that BT 2nd line support very easily sorted out the problem!

Should anyone else have this problem - open the installation CD and in 'x86' double click cleanup.exe. Then, after a reboot, go to utils folder and double click setup.exe.

Small problem - installation CD was from AOL and I cannot find "X86"....

Edited at 1500 ish

Broadband now working again. Tried the above advice to no avial. Likewise what Technical Support said. Dwloaded the BT Voyager 105 drivers from AOL, and they unzipped themselves. Tried "Setup Wizard...". Got same error. Clicked on "Doctor105" and clicked yes without thinking - then saw warning mentioning the registery. Repeated Setup Wizard - this time it did do the setup. Lights on modem lit up. Poked around with the sign on options and found the AOL software recognised it. Signed on via broadband....

Still not entirely sure what happened - but it is working now.

As for the slow boot up......another time?

To diagnose a slow boot up I'd start by getting together a list of what is being loaded during boot up and consider whether you really need it all.

Either "Start / Run / MSConfig" and take a look at the "Startup" tab which lists programs loaded during boot up, or download a program such as HijackThis which will tell you what is running at that time.

Either way post the results on this forum for advice. It may be that your boot up is "lean and mean" already, but worth checking this out first before fiddling with the complexities of Windows.

RC

Alternatively download "Bootvis" from Microsoft..........
Excellent little freebie programme
Regards
SHL

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