Linda S
It's not normal for the registry to get corrupted. So if your
registry is getting damaged "every time we turn on the computer",
that's a message you need to hear, not ignore.
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Thanks for the heads up.]
I do not have any more details. I am not computer literate enough to
know what to look for or to run to fix a problem.
OK, let's get more on the general context.
Has the PC been reliable otherwise, aside from this problem? Or is it
prone to errors, spontaneous reboots, or lock-ups?
Do you shut down properly every time, or have you had problems that
either force you to reset or switch off, or had the system fail to
complete the shutdown process?
Do you ever have trouble switching the PC on and starting it up?
Now, for more on the problem: Does it happen on every startup, or only
sometimes? If sometimes, is there any link to anything that was done
in the previous Windows session? For example, "it only happens after
I had to reset" or "only if I was on the 'net during the last session"
This computer, an e-machine T3065, came with Windows XP Home
installed. Large hard drive, etc. The tech that helped set it up at home
for us, took my old hard drive and installed it, too, rather than
transfer all the information or whatever is done at that stage. I had
not backed up my info to disks so he did it this way.
OK, that was quite a pragmatic approach
What else would you need to know or can you point me to some info that
I can read and, perhaps, learn how to fix this problem.
What I'm after is whether your data and installation is at risk, to
the point that one should get this managed definitively, or whether
it's a single peculiarity in an otherwise healthy system.
Once we know it's the latter, then there's less to worry about, and we
can try this, guess that etc. in some comfort.
You can think about files in the system as rather like cells in the
body. You can lose a bunch of cells and never notice, e.g. if they
are in the middle of a big leg muscle. Or you could kill a cluster of
cells that happen to be the brain cells that handle speech, and then
you would notice very profoundly indeed.
In that sense, the regsitry is like seven or so brain cells that keep
Windows and programs breathing. And because they are often updated,
especially when shutting down, anything that goes generically wrong
(think of bad RAM, for example) in only 1 in a billion times is going
to bite those files sooner or later.
OTOH, if your registry's getting botched on every Windows startup,
that's like a life partner that stops breathing every night. Scary!
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