[ILoveDaniel]

Hello All--
I'll get straight to the point. I was stupid enough to run Spybot and probably some other programs and deleted some registry files and do not know which ones. My windows explorer has been causing me some problems as well as a few other programs but the problems are mostly revolving around images. I'm 100% positive that it's a registry key problem but I don't know what exactly to do. The biggest piece of advice I've received from another site is to reformat my computer and I'd do that if possible but I don't have my Recovery disk (or cd or whatever it is that I need) and have looked high and low. Can anyone help me out please? I love making graphics and use my images every day but cannot since everything has screwed up.

Edited by ILoveDaniel, 24 July 2006 - 02:35 PM.

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have you tried doing a system restore?

also as a forum note...we've got a 16k combined avatar/signature image limit...you are a bit over...could you either make the siggie image a bit smaller...or find a new one?

[dsenette]

have you tried doing a system restore?

also as a forum note...we've got a 16k combined avatar/signature image limit...you are a bit over...could you either make the siggie image a bit smaller...or find a new one?

[ILoveDaniel]

have you tried doing a system restore?

also as a forum note...we've got a 16k combined avatar/signature image limit...you are a bit over...could you either make the siggie image a bit smaller...or find a new one?

I've heard that a system restore does nothing.


Um..Okay.

[dsenette]

system restore restores registry entries that have either gone missing...or changed due to software configurations (the "system restore doesn't do anything" is generally in reference to replacing files...which it will not do)

http://www.microsoft...temrestore.mspx

[ILoveDaniel]

system restore restores registry entries that have either gone missing...or changed due to software configurations (the "system restore doesn't do anything" is generally in reference to replacing files...which it will not do)

http://www.microsoft...temrestore.mspx

So I can use this to undo the registry entries erases that I caused and everything should be fine again?

[dsenette]

it's possible (it may not fix everything)...but it SHOULD replace the registr entries that dissapeard

also (don't have a copy installed here but) i think spybot has an option to restore delete registry items...as does hijackthis (if that was one of your other programs)

what prompted you to go deleting reg keys anyway?

[ILoveDaniel]

it's possible (it may not fix everything)...but it SHOULD replace the registr entries that dissapeard

also (don't have a copy installed here but) i think spybot has an option to restore delete registry items...as does hijackthis (if that was one of your other programs)

what prompted you to go deleting reg keys anyway?

Okay thanks I'll try it out in a second.


I don't know, I just found some stuff that needed to be deleted and I didn't know that they were in any way connected to my registry keys.

[ILoveDaniel]

Sorry for my double post but dsenette suggested that I post another problem that occured on my computer. I've tried to restore everything that I've deleted using Spybot recovery option but when trying to recover I get this weird german message saying 'Zugriffsverletzung bei Adresse 005EDBE7 in Modul'SpybotSD.exe'.Lesen von Adresse 00000047'... I've googled it but have had no luck in cures.

Also I tried system restore on 3 different points and have received the error on startup that the Computer cannot be restored to [point chosen] on each 3 occasions so that idea must be out of the question to.....Can anyone help?

[dsenette]

try running the spybot restore from safe mode (i've actually found a reference to that error...why it's in german i don't know...but they suggest having as few processes running as possible)

[ILoveDaniel]

No, no progress. After selecting to recover all that's in the list Spybot locks up. I had to close it, so I restarted it..same thing. I even tried de-selecting a few things...no progress.

[ILoveDaniel]

No, it's set to english and everything but....well thanks for the translation, now I just need to figure out all of this stuff. Everything's going wrong and it's frustrating.

[ILoveDaniel]

Uninstalling Spybot and reinstalling would delete all of the files from the recovery list that I've deleted previously, wouldn't it? So I can't do that.

About the system restore, I posted a problem that I'm having with it above.

Edited by ILoveDaniel, 25 July 2006 - 01:52 PM.