Computer will not run, keeps restarting and says something about the "hives"
file not available. machine has been acting up the last few months. Not much
computer experience hope i am in the right place. any help would be
appreciated. tx

Fr8erdawg,

This is an XP Group, try here:

http://www.microsoft.com/communities...gen_discussion

By the way HIVES are the top-level registry keys

HKEY_CURRENT_USER
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
HKEY_USERS
and so on

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"fr8erdawg" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:48E1B367-CB07-473C-ADC4-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Computer will not run, keeps restarting and says something about the
"hives"
> file not available. machine has been acting up the last few months. Not
much
> computer experience hope i am in the right place. any help would be
> appreciated. tx

And your WinXP question is...?
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news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...gen_discussion

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)


fr8erdawg wrote:
> Computer will not run, keeps restarting and says something about the
> "hives"
> file not available. machine has been acting up the last few months. Not
> much
> computer experience hope i am in the right place. any help would be
> appreciated. tx