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How to recover from a corrupted registry that prevents Windows XP from starting These instructions will work. But I think you'll lose the activation that was done. Would have to do it again. I suggest NOT activating until the installation has been completed. I'm wondering if you can't just reinstall windows as the solution to this problem?

I would go back to step one and deal with your assumption that your email store (containing your saved emails) was "deleted". • Right Click My Computer and select Search • Click the choice to search All files and folders • Type *.dbx in the text area for the search criteria • Click search button to start the search If the search results shows you that there are indeed files with the extension dbx you may have found your missing email store. One big clue would be the presence of any dbx files that have the same name as that of any custom folders you may have created when previously using Outlook. If you did not create any custom folders another clue will be the size of the Inbox.dbx file. When it is empty of emails it is a very small file. If there are "saved" emails in the Inbox.dbx it could easily be several hundred Mb in size.

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You have a misunderstanding of just what System Restore is. It is NOT your personal backup program. It is a program intended to protect the computer Operating System NOT your personal documents and files. The reason System Restore does not "backup" your personal data is so that your personal data won't be lost when a System Restore is performed. Here is a dialog example of why. Imagine if you will.... Last month on the 15th day you set a System Restore Point at which time you had 50 Document files of great importance in My Documents. This month on the 15th you set another System Restore Point at which time you now have 75 Document files of great importance in My Documents. You discover on the 20th of this month that you have acquired a nasty virus and you have found that after you removed portions of the virus with your antivirus software the negative affects are still be causing your system to freeze and Blue Screen. The solution is to use System Restore to return your system to the properly working state that it was previously in. If System Restore was set to "protect" My Documents and you engaged System Restore to Restore back to Last Months good Restore Point from the 15th. YOU would loose those additional 25 documents of great importance because they would be part of the monitored system changes that occurred between then and now which System Restore would reverse as part of the process of "going back" to the previous working system state. Get it? It is a very big mistake to think of System Restore as your personal backup program.

Personal Documents such as your email store for Outlook Express and Outlook are NOT included in the critical files protected by System Restore. One must use a backup program for this. To view what is and what is not protected by System Restore look for this file: %windir%\system32\Restore\filelist.xml Hint: Just copy paste that into your Start > Run text box and the file will opened

Well on that partition which appears to be used exclusively for the swap file I would assume the garbage can is already set to zero. If not it should be.

I would disable the warning How to Disable "Low on Disk Space" Warning in Windows 98 Description of the Disk Cleanup Tool

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www.hothardware.com Would it not be suicidal (in the business sense) for the Athlon 64 to not support legacy programs?

would it be accurate to say that dirms requires cmd.exe to be running for successful execution which means that cmd.exe is not available when bootexecute is called so a defrag program such as dirms will need to be set later in the boot process when cmd.exe is available. I don't know precisely where that would be.

LOL Exactly !!! :blink:

I suppose one way to do it is to place each command in a separate hive or registry key which windows reads sequentially during startup. This is the sequential list in the order they are processed: The list came from this webpage http://www.greatis.com/security/startuporder.htm Some information here may prove helpful to you http://www.ntcompatible.com/thread24145-1.html

Zero Assumption will pull the images off the flash card while in your camera. Just setup like you normally do to download from the camera. Then run Zero Assumption. For some reason it usually lists two (or more) possible choices to source the files from. You may have to back out of your first choice and go to the second when you figure out the first was wrong.

This freeware tool has recovered lost data from Flash cards for me Zero Assumption Digital Image Recovery

Windows 98 SE (Second Edition) was released to fix bugs and acted as a small incremental update to Windows 98. It gave users enhanced hardware compatibility and Internet features. Windows 98 SE included Internet Explorer 5 and Microsoft Windows NetMeeting version 3.0 conferencing software. It also included DirectX 6.1, which introduced Internet connection sharing (ICS) to and a variety of Windows multimedia improvements. In the area of updates Win98 SE included all the latest updates for Windows 98 including Year 2000 updates, & USB. In the area of software Win98 SE updated versions of Internet Explorer, outlook express, windows media player, DirectX, and NetMeeting. In the area of Drivers & Support - Additional support for latest technology such as MMX, USB, & Pentium III where added. Information taken from: http://www.<<spam>>.net/articl...age=1&pagenum=1 http://www.computerhope.com/win98.htm#02

I had a similar problem a while back but installing drivers was not the solution or even the issue. The problem was the motherboard simply refused to acknowledge the SATA drive was physically present. This is the solution I found which I reproduce here paraphrased as I don't have the source website anymore.. Sometimes you have to force the BIOS to look around and find a SATA drive by fooling it into thinking it needs to do this. After you have connected the SATA drive (don't change the jumper pins the default is the only one needed by most folks) go into your BIOS and as either the Secondary Master or the Primary Slave (whichever is free) or even the Secondary Slave set the selection to manual and select type 9 and if there are other BIOS settings below the one for Manually selecting a hard drive enable the ones not enabled. Next time you boot the BIOS will spend a good deal of time looking for this HDD you say is present and while doing so it will may miraculously find the SATA drive. After that, if you want to make it a boot drive you need to go back to the BIOS (NOW that it recognizes the thing) and place it into the boot order where you desire it to be. It will not be listed as a HDD as you normally see one but it will be there in the boot order list. I had to do this three times before my motherboard found the darn thing.

Add as much RAM as you want to your system. To resolve the issue associated with the 512mb "out of memory" error message add the following line to the [VCache] section of your win.ini file: MaxFileCache = 524288

Without actually watching a new installation I would guess that in WinXP Pro it happens after the Second Startup. Info from this link is quoted belowWin XP Setup. I think a User specific Pagefile is created for each user account as well. Probably the Admin account has the first pagefile during system configuration after the Second Startup as highlighted in green below.

When I was running Win9x systems I learned a lot about the Max Cache settings from axcel website. http://www.mdgx.com/newtip16.htm (scroll down to Max Cache Speed) An easy way to manipulate these settings plus some that are not changed by the REG file suggestion on the axcel website is to do so programatically with the Analog X Cache Booster. It has a very nice and friendly GUI. http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/system/cb.htm The best way to determine the settings that will optimize your system is to experiment with them.

I've self inflicted this type of problem before after playing around with the Font Size settings. Display Properties > Appearance (tab) > Advanced (button)

This seems reliable information and is specific to the 512 mb of RAM issue at hand in fact possibly presenting a solution to the problem described. Quoted from: http://onlinehelp.bc.ca/tips.htm#64mb

I wasn't thinking "DOSless XP" ops bad bad me... You do mean booting an XP system right?. One can "boot" to DOS which is a legitimate Disk Operating System and one can launch Win9x from there. I've not tried it but I also suspect one could manage to get XP to launch from a DOS prompt. I wonder if there is an easy to use guide anywhere online for the step by step process of setting up a bootable USB flash card or hard drive. I think I saw one a while back but it need some searching. This link does not directly address booting from a USB hard drive it does discuss the BIOS settings which should be applicable to both a USB Flash card and a USB hard drive. http://www.weethet.nl/english/hardware_bootfromusbstick.php

Usefull But Somewhat Complicated Information Here One must also, if I recall correctly, set the BIOS to allow the system to Boot either specifically from USB or from Other Device

In most cases it is best to install the same or "newer" version of DirectX to either update or resolve problems. It is not possible to use an older version of DirectX and install over a newer to revert to that older version. In some few cases (recently with DirectX 9.0b) it has been necessary to uninstall as the installation of DirectX 9.0c was somehow being prevented. And of course some people have reason to go back to an older version. This program can be used to uninstall DirectX: DirectX Happy Uninstall

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