Re: Corrupted registry, no floppy drive for regchk

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rubyjack wrote:

I think I got lost here, but I'll figure it out.

2. No scanreg in Windows 2000

Well what good is W2K then? Actually, I'm liking it. But the
similarities/differences to W98SE are frustrating at times.

Windows 98 is a DOS based system and therefore commands like ScanReg.ese can be run from DOS (outside of Windows). Win2k is based on Windows NT system (it really is Windows NT5) and has no links to DOS, therefore you cannot run DOS based commands. Except Win2k has the Recovery Console facility, which looks like a DOS interface and uses certain DOS like commands, but not ScanReg. It's from there that you can replace Registry files if such corruption has occured. But you must have backed up the Registry first via NTBackup.exe using its ERD option. It resides in folder System32. Put it on your Start button for ease of use.
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