Need help to restore the Registry Mechanic mess

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shirish

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Hi all,
My system has screwed up pretty badly due to Registry Mechanic 5.0 Somebody told me it's good & to my nightmare half of the programs don't work. So now left with the daunting task of re-installing windows xp. To make matters worse came to know that the Windows XP CD I have is the upgrade version hence not bootable. A little bit more browsing/searching led me to the site http://www.ubcd4win.com which gives a snapshot as to how to build CD's. While building the CD, it needs to have XP SP1 slipstreamed which I was able to do with the help of Autostreamer. The low-point here being it gets converted to ISO which is nice & fine but doesn't solve my problem of making the CD bootable?
So what path should I take? I wanna repair the installation while not having much stress/headache? Any simple clean solutions. Thanx in advance.
 
Burn the iso on a cd rw and boot from that cd.

Btw did you try system restore and alos system mechanic allows you to save your registry snapshots before scanning, incase you have saved one juzt do a back up. No need to install windows again.
 
hacker,

I could come up with that the only problem I realised is that the serial key needed from xpsp1 becomes 25 characters & I don't have access to that, I'm sure u realise what I mean. AFA restoring from snapshots is concerned, tried that but windows system restore wasn't/isn't able to restore it to that specific date/time hence running with this crippled software at the moment :(
 
^^ u can start windows in safe mode and use system restore...it usually works..

Or at boot-up press F8 and use the 'Last known good configuration'

Hopefully either of the 2 methods shld solve ur problem only if they dont re-install Win XP
Edit : Oops didnt see that u shld already tried system restore....
OT : is there any diff between system restore n last known good configuration?
 
Don't use registry mechanic, regsupreme pro is the only registry cleaner to have.
The first time you run it, it finds almost 50% more invalid entries than registry mechanic and has never caused any problems for me.
 
Registry Mechanic itself automatically stores backups of the registry after every cleaning operation. Just open registry mechanic and click on restore... then just select the back up you want and restore it. Btw it is an extremely good software... don't know where you went wrong.
 
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