find in regedit causes reboot (no BSOD)

[Paul Cahill]

If I run up regedit and do a find (ctrl+F), after a little while the pc will
reboot.
No blue screen.

This appears to indicate a corrupt registry however on XP there is no
registry checker.
Any ideas on how to fix?

XP PRO SP1 and windows updated to the max.

Paul

 

[Alexander Grigoriev]

Go to system properties (My Computer->Right click->Properties), Advanced
tab, Startup and Recovery, uncheck Automatically restart, reboot. Then see
which error code the OS gives. It's probably registry read error.

 

[Kelly]

Hi Paul,

I have seen this happen often under the Root hive but not having one of the
others opened instead.

Suggestion:

Repair the Registry Editor (Line 173)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm