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win98 registry coruppted

i have a probelm with win98 registry is
coruppted
i try to reinstall win98 but still can
solve it

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try registry cleaner. download it from the microsoft website www.microsoft.com
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Please backup your data before formatting any drives !

-Stavi-
The registry is in two files:

c:\{windows dir}\user.dat
c:\{windows dir}\system.dat


The backups are at:

c:\{windows dir}\user.da0
c:\{windows dir}\system.da0

0 = Zero (just incase you can't read it)

You can rename the backups to have a .dat extension and you would have just backed up the registry.
TYoung:
This "overwrite method" is old WIN95 style.
WIN98's registry backup is the "*.cab" file.
Everytime WIN98 boots properly, it saves the current registry.
So, the method of recovering the registry as I described above would be the most efficient.
If this won't help, he has to reinstall the OS from scratch...

-Stavi-