After entering my user password, the screen save comes up,
and the system hangs.  No toolbar, Start button or icons.
I have started in safe mode, done a system restore, to no  
avail.  In Windows Task Manager I can see that  

When I boot, I get an error message which says the
registry is full and will not ignore any additions.
I have gone through many of the newsgroup messages about
the registry and a common answer is that XP's registry

display of the busy hourglass during program operations
and interuption and crash with the wtoolsS.exe warning
occurs.  What is going on here?  Thanks for any help

Blue Screen
STOP: C0000218 (Registry File Failure)
The registry cannot load the hive (file)
\SystemRoot\System32\Config\SOFTWARE

Greetings techies and smarter-guys-than-me:
I have been having a problem with my PC for a year now and
have done all I can think to do to cure it.  The problem
is that XP will randomly stop with a blue screen, perform

My computer did not come with a Restore CD. Can I create
one for future crashes. I recently had to reload from
scratch. I would prefer to be able to restore using a
restore CD. How can I create or obtain one for my future

HELP - can anyone explain why I have upwards of 100
entries of iexplore.exe running when I check my processes?
I have run Fix-It Utilities AV, Trend Micro AV and Panda
and all confirm that I have no viruses present in my

I bought a computer online which is running windows xp
pro, When I tried to download the service packs I found
it had an invalid cd key. I bought a copy of xp home to
install as xp pro is too expensive for my taste.

has anyone used reg supreme to clean up the registry is
it good?

Is there a reason I can change that I have not received
any answers?

Hi thanx for the fast respons on my last question.
Is it possible to make a boot disk for XP? ive looked in
the help file on friends XP computer but it doesent
mention one.

I'm wondering if anyone has problems with their power scheme working fine for a while and then one morning finding your computer fan running and the green light on the power button lit one morning. For some reason my comp quits going into standby mode.

I am trying to backup some data in my PC. I tried the HDD
on my PC for storing the backup and also the USB HDD i
have but got the same problem as follows:
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I've just upgraded to XP professional.  Each time I
switch on there is a message that says 'updates
available'.  I downloaded them today and now have loads
of Windows XP hotfixes with different numbers listed in

The quotes on several of my aol profiles keep being
replaced with a porn link.  Sometimes the porn page pops
up and covers my whole screen.  When this happens
Microsoft Internet Explorer is in the top left corner and