Re: Snap-in failed to initialize after software registry file corruption

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From: Marin Marinov (mlmarinov_at_askme.ca)
Date: 05/18/04


Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 12:59:18 -0400


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Most likely a DLL was deregistered (in the good case, it could be
missing or damaged). Try running Adminpak.msi to install all the admin
tools and hopefully it'll re-register all the DLLs. Anyway, I strongly
suggest that you backup your data, wipe the disk and do a dual-boot
install on two *separate* partitions - having two Windows OSs on the
same partition is a veeery bad idea. A lot of system directories are
shared, you'll also probably get into issues with NTFS permissions.

HTH

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Cheers,
   Marin Marinov
   MCT, MCSE 2003/2000/NT4.0,
   MCSE:Security 2003/2000, MCP+I
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