I am running Windows ME and my registry is huge. I cannot
use regedit.exe. This option and other tools in system
group i.e. msconfig...will not work either. How can I re-
enable regedit.exe so I can empty my registry?
Steve Baron - KB3MM - 31 May 2004 20:41 GMT
How big is it ?
> I am running Windows ME and my registry is huge. I cannot
> use regedit.exe. This option and other tools in system
> group i.e. msconfig...will not work either. How can I re-
> enable regedit.exe so I can empty my registry?
Mike M - 31 May 2004 20:55 GMT
Empty your registry? What are you trying to do? What are the sizes of
system.dat, classes.dat and user.dat (the files that form the registry)? On a
well used reasonably well endows in terms of software PC these three files can
easily total 10-12MB.

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> I am running Windows ME and my registry is huge. I cannot
> use regedit.exe. This option and other tools in system
> group i.e. msconfig...will not work either. How can I re-
> enable regedit.exe so I can empty my registry?
Rick T - 31 May 2004 22:55 GMT
> I am running Windows ME and my registry is huge. I cannot
> use regedit.exe. This option and other tools in system
> group i.e. msconfig...will not work either. How can I re-
> enable regedit.exe so I can empty my registry?
Your registry is "huge" ?...
Type in a DOS Window
SCANREG /FIX
you will be prompted to reboot. After that do the same thing and type
SCANREG /OPT
etc.
Further than that you're going to have to explain what you mean by "will
not work".
Rick