Regisrey change causing lock up. HELP!!!!!

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I was buying an anti virus program ( Norton ) on-line. When I went to
install it it told me I need to change HKEY.....registry settings. I did
this and restarted. My Computer will no longer fully boot. I t will cycle
and stay on the Windows XP Screen without loading my personal settings. I
have lost my restore disk and dont want to lose what I had. How can I get
back into the registry to change the settings back? PLEASE HELP
 
Air said:
I was buying an anti virus program ( Norton ) on-line. When I went
to install it it told me I need to change HKEY.....registry
settings. I did this and restarted. My Computer will no longer
fully boot. I t will cycle and stay on the Windows XP Screen
without loading my personal settings. I have lost my restore disk
and dont want to lose what I had. How can I get back into the
registry to change the settings back? PLEASE HELP
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Does it boot into Safe Mode?
If so, can you choose to restore to a time BEFORE you started this whole
process?

Norton (the home product line) seems to mess up as many systems as they fix.
I cannot fully blame their products - although the invasive level and
resource-hog like nature of them contributes to it more than the user
themselves. Most of the time a user will wait 2+ versions of Norton's
bloated software before upgraded to the now latest edition of it. Norton's
product does not always handle this gracefully and the user has no true
warning before their system is rendered all but worthless.

My suggestion to you is to boot into Safe Mode - if you can - and use System
Restore to restore to the day before you started messing with Norton's
upgrade. Then - uninstall whatever Norton product you have and begin using
the built in Firewall of Windows XP and pick a free antivirus solution of
your choice. You'll be happier for it.
 
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