[SpamCop-Geeks] Re: Windows registry corrupt

[Porpoise]

"Mr K. Mean" <g2p4i1902 at sneakemail.com> wrote in message 
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> Ok, how screwed am I?  Has anybody fixed this one before?  I assume this 
> is the problem I'm having.
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307545
>
> My computer boots but any account I try to log into, it starts logging in 
> and then immediately logs out and takes me back to the login screen. My 
> recovery disk doesn't work because I don't have the administrator 
> password.  I have other account on the machine that are administrators but 
> it doesn't ask me for them.  So, I'm trying the copying thing from Knoppix 
> then.
>
> But any advice?  Anybody successfully fixed this one before?

That's the reason I would never buy a system from a supplier who only 
supplies a recovery CD/DVD rather than the full installation disc. With that 
scenario, you can't recover a system, only restore the system to how it was 
when it left the supplier - which stuffs any user accounts/passwords you may 
have added since purchase. (Unless you have a full backup regime, of 
course).

So what, actually, was it you did? Did you;

1. try to do a fix using a system restore disc?

2. try to do a fix using system repair using a full installation disc?

3. try to do a restore from a backup?

Alternatively, what is it that actually happened and/or what is it you're 
trying to do? I deduce that you have, in some way, become the lucky owner of 
a screwed registry........  8>[]

Which OS are you using? I take it you don't have a backup of the registry?!