Unable to open Window after Poledit

[shawloongchen]

I have mistakenly select the Check box - disable registery
When i restart the notebook it gave me a error message
- You have encounter a registery problem plese consult your administartor.
Need help.
Please advise.

[b1kra]

Hi and welcome to the forum shawloongchen

I don't know if I can be of any assistace with this. How did you inactivate the scan registry? MSCONFIG Start up?

Im woundering if you could start into safe mode and run MSCONFIG from there and just recheck the item in the startup tab and then close and reboot.

If this is not possible there may be a way of doing something out of the dos mode using the startup disk like getting to the C:\ and typing a dos command.

Someone who knows a lot more about this situation than I, will be along to assist you further

[BUMP]

Take care and post back some details such as you machine type, CPU and HDD and operating system, anything that may better describe the puter and what you did.

[AnnMarie]

Hi shawloongchen

Try running scanreg /restore with a bootdisk.

If you dont have a bootdisk, you will have to download one from the Internet or make one on another PC. Pop the floppy in your PC and power up.

At the command prompt A:\> type:

c:

Press Enter then type:

cd windows\command

Press Enter then type:

scanreg /restore (note the space after scanreg)

Press Enter

Follow the directions (remove boot disk first). You should be able to choose from a "started registry" using your arrow keys. Select a date that was before you made the change in Poledit from the first 4 (I dont think the 5th one works). When you have finished type "exit" (no inverted commas) and with a bit of luck, Windows will load.

The links to any software or hardware installed after that date will be lost so you will have to reinstall it.

[shawloongchen]

Thanks for the quick responses. Beow are some of the details infor:-
Hardware
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Toshiba Notebook Satellite 2180CDT
Authentic AMD K6 3D processor 96MB RAM

Problem occured when i have accidently selected the Poledit -
System Policy Editor for the Local User.
Under System and sub menu Restriction :-
Disable Registry editing tools.

So far i have tried but fail:-
1). Open under safe mode
2). Delete the Poledit related files and copy a fresh one.
3). Restore the registry as suggested by AnnMarie.


Anyway thanks for the infor that provided. I really apprecited it.

[markp62]

Boot up the computer in Safe Mode.
Run regedit Start\Run type in regedit. Navigate to this key:
Hkey_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
In the right pane you will see a value named "DisableRegistryTools" with a value of "1". Right click on it and select Modify, change it to a zero.
Or. copy and paste the lines between the braces but do not include the braces into Notepad and save it as anyname.reg . Make sure the name does not end up as anyname.reg.txt . Then just double click on the reg file, answer yes you want to merge this into the registry.
A slight quirk when pasting, make sure the Hkey line is all on one line, with no breaks in the words.

{
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"DisableRegistryTools"=dword:00000000
}

[chris wolf]

seeing as you can't be sure what poledit did to cause a problem with the registry, annmarie's suggestion of a registry restore is probably the best course of action. however, you don't need a startup diskette - just boot to a command prompt (hold down a ctrl key during startup until you see the windows 98 startup menu and choose command prompt only) and run scanreg/restore, then use the arrow keys to pick a backup from before this happened and restore it.