xp possible registry problem and change of settings

ultrasolve · #16 03-06-2004, 05:01 AM

I was under the impression that "CWShredder" was a removal tool for the coolwebsearch hijacker, would be interested to hear in what way it has fixed DLL files.

klem0019 · #17 04-22-2004, 04:05 PM

Downloand TuneUp 2004, run TuneUp RegistryDefrag.

vision · #18 05-01-2004, 06:31 AM

Have the same problem. Tried several registry utilities including tuneup registry cleaner and tuneup RegistryDefrag and microsoft regclean. No luck. Tried DDE Shares Disable also. Also tried disabling several other system applications with no luck. I ran the system files check utility successfully. I'm using Win XP Professional SP1 with all current updates from the Microsoft Windows Update Site... I even used an older restore point and tried the "Use last good known configuration" option during XP boot. The problem comes up even in xp safe mode.

I'm out of ideas really...I suppose I'll try waiting for SP2, but doubt it'll solve it. Anyone has any more ideas?

MickRad · #19 05-14-2004, 12:36 AM

I am having the same problem as reported above.
But it's been annoying me for a year or more.
I am at my wits end.

is it:

- My XP SP1 disk?
- My HDD?
- My display driver?

I get the Registry Recovery Message all the time, and after a while my PC just starts to lose icons, display settings, and then eventually I lose all my desktop icons and start menu and have no choice but to re-install.

it is driving me mental. I just want a definitive answer as to what I can do to stop these messages from appearing.

I have used every Registry tuner on the markey, and still no luck.

I have re-installed XP from scratch (same HD though) and after slowly installing things, I thought I had tracked it down to My Office XP installation, but no..it still happens.

Help??!!!

vision · #20 07-05-2004, 04:15 PM

Well, I still wasn't able to fix this darn problem without reinstalling win xp. I came across these two little utilities: ERUNT and NTREGOPT. They are utilities to back up and defragment your registry. I tried them, but it crashed win xp and even prevented it from booting (i had to use recovery console to get back on track) so i suggest using it only if you know what you're doing. If anybody actually manages to fix it with these utilites, let us know. Still finding an answer to this one, phew...

MickRad · #21 07-05-2004, 05:51 PM

Well, I fixed my XP. And how did I do it?
I bought new hardware.
I got to the point where I couldn't even successfully re-install XP any more. I am pretty sure the culprit was the RAM. I had 3x SDRAM chips and the computer ran fine with just one in, but it didn't like the combination of all of them.

So if you have this problem and you have more than one Memory chip, experiment taking all but one out and see how it goes (slower of course).

I ended up buying a new Mainboard, CPU and RAM and now my XP flies with not one crash yet.

vision · #22 07-06-2004, 02:58 AM

I refuse to believe it is my RAM which is causing this. I don't have any other problems either with my RAM or Win XP except for this one. I tested my RAM with several utilities and it never produced any errors. Thanks for the tip, but I'm still pretty sure it's a software problem, rather than a hardware one.

etherfox · #23 07-21-2004, 11:52 PM

same issue, but i've only been running into it for a handfull of days now. I checked the logs and nothing in there is worth noting besides a whole bunch of errors with my cd-drive (but that's another issue). I analyzed my drive with the defragmentor and looked at the report it spits out. my free space is at %17 of 80GB, and it is hardly fragmented (1.05 frags per file). The thing that stuck out however is that the Master file table is being used at %99. I have no idea wether this is normal, but if the registry needs to write when the system shuts down and it gets broken because it can't do it properly it probably tries to restore itself with the backup registry file on bootup. just a thought, but I'd like some reflections from some more knowledgable folk.

...

oh,
running winxp sp1 (up to date)
AVG (up to date)
have a hardware firewall (router)
have a software firewall (outpost)
the system has been running relatively properly for about three months now. the registry issue came about a couple of days ago and I have made no hardware changes since I got it up and running.

I'll see what I can come up with in the mean time, but I'd like some review of my thoughts.

,cheers

PointlessPUNK · #24 07-29-2004, 02:29 PM

How many of you having this problem have Nvidia Video cards and/or AMD cards.
I have an Nvidia Geforce 4 mx420 and am AMD 2700+ CPU

etherfox · #25 07-29-2004, 02:33 PM

running a 2500 Barton with a GF4 Ti4200 (128Meg)

chiprock · #26 08-17-2004, 08:12 AM

I have had the same problem at the bussiness where I work. It has occured twice. In one instance we just re ghosted the comptuer. No problem seemed to get brought on by something to do with deleting a profile. The specific instances I saw this Autocad LT was installed which stores info in the local profile of the current logged in user. In both instances the profile that had the intial installation was deleted and this error started to occur. Tried everything I could find on the Internet. It almost seems like a bug in the registry restoration portion of Windows, so this problem may be independent of hardware, software, drivers, etc... It may be anytime there is a problem that requires the registry to be updated it may fall into this loop. Either way it sucks.

My next step is try SP2, if not then reimaging seems to work. Sorry if this is of no help,

etherfox · #27 08-17-2004, 10:02 AM

Allrighty, I do have discreet software installed so we're in the same vicinity as far as how the issues occur. I did try installing SP2 but it didn't seem to affect the issue at all. It still does it every bootup. One easy workaround/solution is to install windows to a new directory and get rid of the old one (for those of us in a situation where imaging is not an option). I'm ordering a new harddrive so I can install from scratch, but for now I'm just going to install windows next to itself (for more reasons than just the registry issue).

mbgeek · #28 08-23-2004, 05:24 PM

I was having the same problem on a machine for about 6 months. Put a new hard drive in and installed XP w/SP2 on immediately got the same error once the install was finished. If there is one thing in 19 years as a PC tech that I know for sure, it's if someone has fixed a problem, try their solution before dismissing it (can you hear me VISION?). Now considering that I just reinstalled fresh, I had to believe it was a hardward issue, so taking the advice, I changed the memory with AN IDENTICAL 256 meg Infenion stick from another machine and the problem has gone away. Put the "problem" memory stick in the other machine and no problems there either. The moral? PC EQUIPMENT IS FLAKEY WHEN IT COMES TO COMPATIBILITY!!! Sometimes all the parts don't play nice. And I've never found a software memory tester that was worth a damn...LOL

Thanks gang!

MBGeek

etherfox · #29 08-23-2004, 05:32 PM

Very nice, I must say. I did the same thing last week, I reinstalled and it came back after a handfull of reboots so i decided to do absolutely nothing after installing xp and just reboot it. Sure enough it happened after a while. So I swappped a stick of 512 from my brother's machine and untill now have not had the problem come up. So that's two that so far have subdued this problem through hardware troubleshooting. My replacement RAM wasn't exactly identical to the first, but until now it's working fine.

Curiously, what motherboard did you have the issue on?

mbgeek · #30 08-23-2004, 05:42 PM

It is an Asus A7V-E