Solve : Been registry diving, have the bends, please help?

1.	Solve : Been registry diving, have the bends, please help?
Answer» ok ok ok I KNOW, BUT I went in to take out a couple of listings in the Add/Remove menu that wern't going away (done it before, no probs) BUT the reg's were for Black & White (the game) aaand wound up deleting a reg' listing for my favorites folder (ie the reg listing for the games website). Now when I start windows it comes up 'Registry entries missing' (or is it data? either way...) HELP? please? cheers. Even if it turns out not to be those entries any info will help.7 views come on guys any ideas at all?Windows??? What Windows??? 98, 98se, 2k, me, xp. Registry backup??? System Restore??? How can the sickness be diagnosed without info??? What was the *ACTUAL* message you got??? What have you tried??? Indeed. Information begets information. It says 'Registry Data Missing' when windows XP launches to desktop. Beget me! lead_sharp..... Well ,you've got me , I have read your post 5 times and I am still AMAZED at what part of never mess around in the registry without having backed it up you missed .....just in case .....something is removed that shouldnt have been removed ....... Your lucky your pc still boots up at all. Do you use any programs that does a registry back-up as part of their cleaning procedure ....for example spybot ? If your system is clear of any nasties , you could try and use your system restore and set it back to just before you made the incorrect removals. dl65 Now that we have enough information to ponder the problem the begetting hath started... And - you didn't do us the courtesy of responding to the questions in full. I must assume that you have tried nothing so here's one possible tho' not certain recovery option... Boot into Safe Mode (F8). From the Advanced Options Menu select "Last Known Good Configuration" and go from there. Good luckOne thing I used to do is drop to real mode ("Restart in MS-DOS mode") and do a "scanreg /restore" (without the quotes). This will re-install an older backup of the registry. Mud - Is that option available in XP???Sorry Dusty, I'm still with win98se and I know next to nothing about XP. If XP has the "restart in MS-DOS mode" option, then it's probably possible. All I did was ask for help. Never mind. Quote It says 'Registry Data Missing' when windows XP launches to desktop. Mud - thanks for coming back. The OP indicated he was running XP - I thought you had discovered a NEW option in XP where the only options I get are "Standby" "Turn off" and "Restart" (XP Home) - As you will know XP does not run over Dos so the option to restart in Dos mode would be most peculiar. Quote All I did was ask for help. Never mind. Did neither System Restore nor Last Good Config help you??? Nope. It's not actualy effecting anything (yet). My annoyance here is part my somehow expecting you to know I've just finnished my third 12 hour shift in an old folks home and part SOME of you for being snotty gits. We're not all computer experts. The sys restore didn't seem to work simple said couldn't restore to point, whatever, it didn't work. I will return when I've had some kip and in a less foul mood.Maybe there should be a forum specific to Windows XP. Sorry I couldn't help.

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ok ok ok I KNOW, BUT I went in to take out a couple of listings in the Add/Remove menu that wern't going away (done it before, no probs) BUT the reg's were for Black & White (the game) aaand wound up deleting a reg' listing for my favorites folder (ie the reg listing for the games website).

Now when I start windows it comes up 'Registry entries missing' (or is it data? either way...) HELP? please?

cheers.

Even if it turns out not to be those entries any info will help.7 views come on guys any ideas at all?Windows??? What Windows??? 98, 98se, 2k, me, xp.

Registry backup??? System Restore???

How can the sickness be diagnosed without info???

What was the ACTUAL message you got???

What have you tried???

Indeed. Information begets information. It says 'Registry Data Missing' when windows XP launches to desktop.

Beget me! lead_sharp..... Well ,you've got me , I have read your post 5 times and I am still AMAZED at what part of never mess around in the registry without having backed it up you missed .....just in case .....something is removed that shouldnt have been removed ....... Your lucky your pc still boots up at all. Do you use any programs that does a registry back-up as part of their cleaning procedure ....for example spybot ?

If your system is clear of any nasties , you could try and use your system restore and set it back to just before you made the incorrect removals.

dl65

Now that we have enough information to ponder the problem the begetting hath started... And - you didn't do us the courtesy of responding to the questions in full.

I must assume that you have tried nothing so here's one possible tho' not certain recovery option...

Boot into Safe Mode (F8). From the Advanced Options Menu select "Last Known Good Configuration" and go from there.

Good luckOne thing I used to do is drop to real mode ("Restart in MS-DOS mode") and do a
"scanreg /restore" (without the quotes).
This will re-install an older backup of the registry.

Mud - Is that option available in XP???Sorry Dusty, I'm still with win98se and I know next to nothing about XP.

If XP has the "restart in MS-DOS mode" option, then it's probably possible.
All I did was ask for help.

Never mind. Quote

It says 'Registry Data Missing' when windows XP launches to desktop.

Mud - thanks for coming back.

The OP indicated he was running XP - I thought you had discovered a NEW option in XP where the only options I get are "Standby" "Turn off" and "Restart" (XP Home) - As you will know XP does not run over Dos so the option to restart in Dos mode would be most peculiar.

Quote

All I did was ask for help.

Never mind.

Did neither System Restore nor Last Good Config help you???

Nope.

It's not actualy effecting anything (yet).

My annoyance here is part my somehow expecting you to know I've just finnished my third 12 hour shift in an old folks home and part SOME of you for being snotty gits.

We're not all computer experts.

The sys restore didn't seem to work simple said couldn't restore to point, whatever, it didn't work.

I will return when I've had some kip and in a less foul mood.Maybe there should be a forum specific to Windows XP.

Sorry I couldn't help.

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