Re: Endless reboot - how to restore registry files

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Hi Eric,


First, the administrator default name is not Admin but

administrator

default without password.
Try logging into this account and go from there.
This account has administration rights allowing
program installation and registry modification.


HTH,
John7


"Eric" <Eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schreef in bericht
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Hi,

My computer booted endlessly because of a corrupt registry. I followed the
steps described in this article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545 to
repair the registry. I succeeded in replacing the corrupted system,
software, sam, security and default registry files by those located in
c:\windows\repair (as described in part 1 of the article). I was then able
to boot and login using the account Administrator.
However, there are several limitations:
1) Despite its name, the user Admin does not seem to have admin rights.
For
example, I'm not able to execute any program (.exe file), Windows displays
a
message I'm not allowed to execute the program. I'm able to delete and
write files though
2) Part 2 of the article could not be carried out because there were no
snapshots of the registry in C:\System Volume Information. Apparantly the
feature System restore had been turned off...

However, there is still hope imho. A couple of days ago (before the
crash!)
I made a copy of the entire registry using the program Regedit. This got
me
a 96 Mb .reg backup file. Now I'd like to know if there's any utility that
can split this .reg file into system, software, sam, security and default
registry files (of course, I don't want the 5 registry files of the
computer
I'm using not be affected!) . I could then use the recovery console to put
these 5 newly created registry files into c:\windows\system32\config.
Now does this make any sense? And is there such a utility? Do you have any
more suggestions?



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