Corrupt File.

[Sentaku senshi]

Well browsing thruough the my computer properties I finaly found the automatic reboot on error option and disabled it allowing me to find out what my error screen said on my start up:

STOP: c0000218 {Registry File Failure}
The registry cannot load the hive (file)
\systemroot\system32\config\software
on it's log or alternate
It is corrupt absent or not writable.

So what I did was rename the software file to software2, and move another software file my E:\drive were I accidently, got windows xp on.

The problem is that all my program settings, are messed up. From the start menu, to my backround.

[ober]

can you at least back up your stuff so you can do a reinstall??

[xds4lx]

Same thing has happened to me a few times. Last time i gave up and formated then found this microfosft knowledge base article a few days later on how to actually fix it: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];Q307545 hope you havent formated yet.