I have been tweaking an old machine donated to a local non-profit, and encountered an odd problem. It is in pretty good shape, runs well, a sweet little thing and perfectly usable for everyday office chores. I managed to free up plenty of drive space (it was 90% crammed, ugh!). BUT, when I try to boot into Safe Mode, it gripes about not being able to find the registry.

I have a feeling that this has to do with the size of the registry. The System.dat file is around 8MB. That is larger than mine, with my win98 and a thirty-some gig drive and more installed progs than I can run in a week. I used to have win95, and I don't recall my registry ever getting over 2MB.

Just wondering if anyone has any useful insights into this... It isn't a big problem (yet), since it will boot normally. I'm going to try some more registry tools on it, whatever I have that will run on 95. There are probably some keys over the size limit, and undoubtedly at least 4MB or so of useless junk. The poor thing was used for games for a long time.

Please do not reply unless you have experience with win95. Thank you.

Ensure WinDir and WinBootDir parameters in MSDOS.SYS are set correctly.

Regarding the registry size limit, do a bit a searching. I found this: http://groups.google.ca/group/microsoft.pu...db922df0288a29b