About 3 months ago, my machine reported an "error accessing the registry" on bootup, and offered to restore the registry for me. However, it would hang instead of restarting. I manually restored the registry, with no improvement. At the time, my 2.5G hard drive was getting full, so I installed a 10.1 G drive, partitioned and formatted it, and reinstalled Win95B. Same problem...I had installed a cheap windows modem about a week before, and, since Windows was having problems with the modem, I removed it and things started working right. Last week, I downloaded IE4.0, then IE5.0. A few hours later, the machine was having the error accessing the registry, just like before. I reinstalled Win95, with no luck. I took my SDRAM sticks to the computer place, and they said I had bad ram. New ram, old problem... I just reinstalled Win95 with the new ram and still, error accessing the registry. Does anyone have any thoughts???

Registry

"If there is an error in your registry, your computer may become nonfunctional. If this happens, you can restore the registry to its state when you last successfully started your computer To restore the registry 1. Click Start, and then click Shut Down. 2. Click Restart in MS-DOS mode, and then click Yes. 3. At the MS-DOS prompt, type scanreg /restore 4. Restart your computer. Also if you have Windows CD, look at the Other/Misc/Eru folder. Here you'll find the program for Registry backup (and other system files) And Windows 95 has backed up the registry for you under the names of SYSTEM.DA0 and USER.DA0. You can restart Windows in safe mode and go into DOS where you can then rename these files as the new SYSTEM.DAT and USER.DAT files." Hit F1 or reinstall Windows

I have just installed a 3com 56K US Robotics modem and added more memory to my computer. When I boot the computer, it displays a message that there is an error loading the system registry and to restart the computer so that the registry can be restored from backup. This was done but the same message appeared again. I removed the modem and the additional memory, reloaded Windows 95 and copied the system.dat and user.dat but the same registry error appears. Please help. What else can I try?