Re: Cannot log in after recovering from corrupt system error

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Hi Rick,
Thanks for replying. I could not find the keys that are listed in your
website. I also did a search in registry for the Cryptography key but did
not find any in HKEY_USERS. What's puzzling me when I click on System
Restore to complete the last step of Microsoft's guide I get System Restore
encountered a problem and needs to close. I could not make anything out of
the technical report it created. I thought maybe System Restore is
stopped/disabled in services and tried to open Services and got Microsoft
Management Console has encountered a problem and needs to close. Thinking
that all the problems are related to the Microsoft Activation. One more
information is the computer is a Dell computer where XP came installed on it.
Therefore no need to use a crack.
Thanks again

"Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Follow the steps here in Safe mode:
> http://www.rickrogers.org/fixes.htm#Activation
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
> www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>
> "Mani" <Mani@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:BD786E85-3FD1-4555-8C35-E0A75CE7EF1C@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Hi,
> > My friends computer was getting "Windows XP could not start because the
> > following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM"
> > error.
> > I followed http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545/en-us and recovered.
> > When
> > trying to log in, was being prompted that he needs to Activate Windows.
> > When
> > I click on either Yes or No to that dialog, the log in screen comes back
> > up.
> > Can go into Safe Mode but cannot use System Restore. Was getting an error
> > occured and needs to close. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> > Thanks
> >
>
>
>
.

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