It's always something. For the last two days my computer has been giving me an error message when I shut down through the start menu. After the screen goes "shady" for about ten to fifteen seconds, I get the standard "Program not responding" window, except it says "Notification Wnd for RNAdmin." The buttons on the bottom are the usual: Wait, End Task, or Cancel. Anyone know what's the deal?

Since it's a recent problem, go to a dos prompt and type scanreg*space*\restore. Pick a date older than when the problem occcured and restore your machine to that date.

Grasshopper, I tried to do what you said, but the prompt said "Bad command." Do the asterisks stand for something I should be filling in? Do I have to enter the date on the command line? If so, what format do I use. Will this keep all my non-system files? Are there any consequences of doing this? Also, when I check my DOS manual, it says that restore commands only restore files that had previously been backed up. Is the scanreg function you wrote different?

Simply type: scanreg/restore exactly as shown. Grasshopper was trying to illustrate that you need to hit the space bar once to input a space between the word scanreg and the slash before the word restore. You do not need to have the space. And the slash is a forward slash found below the ? Entering this command will bring up a list of the last five good regitry startups. You can select one of them to replace your current registry. Any installed software after that date will loose it's registry settings and will need to be reinstalled in order to work properly. If you have not installed anything since the replacement registry date then you will loose nothing. Hope this helps.

Okay, I tried that, but the only registries available are almost a year old, from back when I originally restored the system. There are no recent registries available. What now?