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Posted By : Student of Katharine Gibbs School - New York on September 15, 2003

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I was running scandisc, when my computer shut doen. Now all I get is the Setup menu. It insructes me to "command prompt onlyz" with the message "windows detected a registration/configuartion error." I am prompted tp run "scanreg" (also tried "scanreg/restore All I get is a blue screen with the saying on top "Microsoft Registry Checker" amd on the bottom, "Checking System Files...." There is no yellow progress line, and I have left this meesage on for over 16 hours. Help!!!

This question was answered on September 15, 2003. Much of the information contained herein may have changed since posting.


I had the same problem and what I did was reinstall win98.

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Posted by Student of Katharine Gibbs School - New York on September 15, 2003

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