[dba-Tech] XP registry repair - SOLVED

Max Wanadoo max.wanadoo at gmail.com
Mon Jun 15 12:09:23 CDT 2009


Good catch Andy

Max



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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Andy Lacey
Sent: 15 June 2009 17:58
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] XP registry repair - SOLVED

For the sake of the archives. It was permissions in the registry which had
somehow got messed up. This link tells you how to rest those back to
defaults, which worked fine.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313222

Cheers
Andy

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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin
Sent: 15 June 2009 17:07
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Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] XP registry repair


Well, as long as you have the Drive Image you can't do too much damage,
right?  I mean you can always rewind to the current (broken) state, yes?

Rocky
 

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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Andy Lacey
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 8:48 AM
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Don't trust them. I've had too many occasions when XP sees a restore point
but then won't restore from it. So I'm doing an image backup with
DriveImage. I fear this could go horribly wrong. But hey what's the worst
that can happen? No, don't answer that.

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Andy Lacey
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Do you have restore points?

Rocky


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Thanks for quick responses Jon & Rocky

I don't know what to make of it really. As I say the pc's working fine so I
suppose the registry can't be that hosed. But I can't reliably register or
unregister anything. Logged on as user 1 I can reg certain DLL's but not
others. Logged on as user 2 I can reg the ones user 1 can't but can't reg
the ones that user 1 can. !!!!!!!! Tried creating a new user but that
doesn't help me - fails the first register I tried. I don't know what to
make of it. It smacks to me of a security issue, although then I'd have
expected the error to say "You don't have rights to do this" or somesuch.

Mmm, looks like my security thing may be right. I've just gone into the
registry and indeed the keys are showing with different permissions. For
some User 1 has Full Control and user 2's not mentioned. For others
vice-versa. Just googled this and

http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/reset-the-registry-and-the-file-permission
s-in-windows-xp/

recommens using SecEdit to reset reg permissions. Very nervous. Anyone any
experience here?

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Andy Lacey
http://www.minstersystems.co.uk



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Date: 15/06/09 13:56


Ccleaner is pretty good at cleaning them up, but I don't know about
repairing registries...


Jon

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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Andy Lacey
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 3:48 PM
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Subject: [dba-Tech] XP registry repair

Hi all
Can anyone recommend a good, safe registry repair tool for XP? I've a
machine here that's playing odd. Just trying to upgrade an existing accounts
system, which goes fine on all other pc's but on this one it crashes when
trying to register certain DLL's and OCX's. And you get a different set of
failed files depending which user you're logged on as. There's a variety of
messages from "Unspecified error" to "An event was unable to invoke any of
the subscribers" via "Exception occurred". Pc runs ok otherwise just can't
register anything reliably. Thought a reg repairer might help. Any ideas?

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Andy Lacey
http://www.minstersystems.co.uk


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