HELP ! PLEASE ! ... I have heard horror stories on this famous BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH, but most ppl just buy a new computer .. well i can't afford that so I'm hoping u can help, . On Aug 28th 2008, there was an icon requesting i install new windows updates.l (windows xp) , so like any other time, i did so. but when it was time for it to reboot, like it usually does after such updates, it decided to not allow windows to reboot , but instead gave me a blue screen with the error of c0000218 registry file failure. can not be found , corrupt or missing, help, i never touched registry files, but i did notice when the update was being processed it did back up my registry which i thought was odd, never seen windows do that for an update , but im not very computer literate so i just let it do what it does on its own, . please help, .. i will also know how to fix in laimens terms lol if u know what i mean . :0 ty for your time :0

Basic but.... Have you tried hitting F8 as your computer starts up to get into safe mode, then can you do a restore on either the comp or the registry to sort it out?

I think with some big windows updates, they normally show up in the add remove programs so you can uninstall it from there?? Or am i being a retard, ie windows wont even let you get that far?

Sorry for my lack of knowladge but......!

LOL yes , windows wont even load in safe mode . so sad , but ty for the effort