Nothing saves in HKLM

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From: Craig Cameron (monte-carlo_at_shaw.ca)
Date: 04/14/04

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    Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 18:09:15 GMT

    System: Win2kPro,SP4, Pentium III 800Mhz, IDE 20GB drive

    Hi all, I have an interesting and frustrating problem that I have run out of
    things to try and fix.

    It all started when I set a chkdsk to run at next startup. It didn't run.
    I set it again, and verified the entry in the bootexecute sections of
    HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\SessionManager. Rebooted, but still didn't
    run, and said registry info in bootexecute, was gone.

    Thinking it may be a conflict with one of my third party drivers, I created
    a new hardware profile, and disabled one driver in the second profile. I
    rebooted, and it didn't prompt for selection of which profile to use. After
    bootup, I checked in Control Panel, and there was no sign of my hardware
    profile that I had just created.

    I think I can now conclude that entry's in the HKLM section of the registry
    are not saving on reboot(I have done a logoff, and the registry entry for
    the chkdsk was still there).

    I have re-installed SP4, searched MS Knowledgebase about a million times,
    but found nothing.

    I have found in one of my many books, that any changes to the registry are
    saved in a cache, then written to the registry on system reboot. But how
    could I check that. The system file of the registry is always showing a
    very recent modification, after reboot, so something is being written.

    Could this be a local security policy setting?

    Any help would be appreciated.

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