Graham,
Unfortunately, if you don't have a backup for your registry, and 95 can't
restore it from its own backup, about the only thing you can do is reformat
the drive and start over.
Glenn


> My youngest son was loading a disk and while it was loading he switched
off the computer he then switched it back on, he saw a message and it seems
he clicked on the button for a valid backup.The pc will not open windows now
and comes up with the following message.
> Warning windows encountered an error accessing the system registry.Windows
could not restore your registry-no valid backup copy of the registry
exists.We have tried a few things but all it does is operates in safe mode
then up comes the previous message,can you help.

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