How to Manually Restore the Windows 98/Me Registry
- Start your computer, press and hold CTRL, and then
choose Safe Mode Command Prompt Only from the Windows 98 Startup
menu. If you are running Windows Me, start your computer with the startup
disk.
- At the MS-DOS prompt, type cd\windows\command, and then
press ENTER. Where windows is the name of the folder in which
Windows is installed.
- At the C: prompt, type scanreg /restore, and then press
ENTER.
- Select the previous registry you want to restore, and
then press ENTER.NOTE: A properly working registry has the word
"Started" next to the date.
- When you receive notification that you restored a
properly working registry, press ENTER to restart your computer.
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