Some sort of as-yet-undiagnosed hardware problem.

Can't use regedit -- it won't stay up long enough for me to run any program. My only hope is that it will allow me enough time to copy a file to an external disk. (A faint hope at that)

>>Sergey --
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>>As always, thanks very much.
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>>Unfortunately for me --- my laptop is essentially dead. It stays up only for short periods of time. So, using any tools to extract items from the registry will probably not work.
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>>Can I edit it directly (shudder!)? If so, where do I find it?
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>Jim,
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>I think we have similar problem with my husband's laptop. Do you know why is it happening?
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>I also think you can simply save all your registry info from regedit.