>You may want to try using the system.1st file renamed as system.dat with attributes of system, hidden, read-only. This is the registry as of the time of Win95 install. If you haven't done to many boots this is a system.da0 which is the roll back copy from the last registry updates performed. To muck around with these files boot into safe mode command prompt only and modify the ATTRIBs
>ATTRIB -R -S -H c:\windows\system.dat ... da0
>copy da0 over dat
>ATTRIB +R +S +H c:\windows\system.dat ... da0
>and hope.
>
>You should make ERU diskette for the systems after any major software install. Norton has a passable registry tracker utility. In the end we always seem to need to reinstall but use the above to salvage as much as possible.
>HTH
>Gary

thanks Gary for the information... I will try it..thanks again..rob