I have an IBM NteVista running Windows Millennium. One night I turned off my computer, came back the next day, and THIS is what it said when I booted....
"Windows may be unable to process the registry. This may be fixed by rebooting to the Command Prompt Only & running SCANREG /FIX. Otherwise there may not be enough free conventional memory to properly run the registry."
Then suddenly it shift into normal mode.
How can I reboot to Command Prompt Only? Will this work? What the hell is a registry?
To boot to Command Prompt continually hit your F8 key while rebooting. This should take you to a menu where you will be given the choice of booting to a command prompt. Once at the prompt type in Scanreg /fix.
Will this work? Only God and Bill Gates knows.
The registry is a system data base that holds information that tells your pc how to boot up and what programs to load on bootup.
if it can get to normal mode doing a system restore can do the same thing with a more userfriendly enviornment...just go back to when it was working properly
System restore is installed by default. It will run in safe mode or normal. But if your registry is corrupted due to a corrupted file, it may not work.
Boot using a Boot Disk, and run the registry repair from the command prompt.
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