Thanks Allan for your quick response. Here is the hive message word for word:

Stop: C0000218 ( Registry file failure )
The registry cannot load the hive ( file )
\systemroot\system32\config\software
or its log or alternate

Beginning dump of PHYSICAL memory.
Physical memory dump complete.
Contact your system adiminstrator or technical support group.You need to stop creating new threads. Just reply in the original THREAD. This is only causing confusion. Anyway, do this:

Boot to the XP CD and select R (Recovery Console)

At the COMMAND prompt type:

ren c:\windows\system32\config\software software.old
copy c:\windows\repair\system c:\windows\system32\software

Reboot

NOTE: You will have to reinstall all software that has been installed since that software hive backup was created (almost certainly the day you installed the OS).Oh sorry about creating new threads. I m new to this forum stuff.


I will give your solution a try. But does this MEAN I am GOING to lose, pictures and documents, etc. Sure sounds that way. No, you will just have to reinstall all programs.