Troubleshooting the Registry

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Several problems may be directly related to Registry errors. The most common category of problems are the following:

• Your computer won’t boot properly or at all.
• Your computer looks or works differently than it once did.
• Your computer won’t shut down correctly.
• The “Blue Screen of Death” resulting from a STOP error.
• A software or hardware component that operated correctly stops working without any physical changes being made to the files or to the device.
• Something stops working after you add new software or hardware, and the two are not known to be incompatible with one another.

Most of these error conditions are at least correctable from backup. The one really frightening error is the STOP error because you can’t access your machine. To correct the Blue Screen of Death, try booting from your boot disk and running the Check Disk program to repair these type of errors associated with disk and file problems. The CHDSK.EXE program is located in the <SYSTEM ROOT>\SYSTEM32 directory.