On 11.25.98 Elisabeth Boston wrote:

"There is not enough memory to load the registry, or the registry
is corrupted Some devices may not function properly."

You may want to give the following a try. It is from Windows
Magazine and this particular "WinTip" is from their Winter 1999
issue.

                         Restore Your Registry Backup

Follow these steps to restore the backup copy of the Windows 95
Registry. (Providing there is one) Restart the computer in the
DOS mode. From the Windows directry, (cd\windows) type the
following DOS commands one after another, pressing Enter after
each one. When you are done, restart the computer.

attrib -h -r -s system.*
copy system.dat system.bak
copy system.da0 system.dat    (da zero not oh)
attrib -h -r -s user.*
copy user.dat user.bak
copy user.da0 user.dat        ( "  "    "   ")
attrib +h +r +s system.*
attrib +h +r +s user.*

If all goes well, the Regestry will be restored and the computer
will servive another bout of illness.

The computer is loaded with Norton Utilities, I'm not familiar
with using this program, can it be used to repair the registry?

Which version of Norton Utilities does this machine run? If it is
version 3.0 and the owner kept up with the live updates, then you
may want to try running the following utilities.

1. Norton Win Doctor
2. Norton Disk Doctor
3. Norton Optimization Wizard
4. Norton Speed Disk

If all of this fails try setting up a permanent swap file in
Control panel, System, virtual memory to 2.5 times the ram this
well be set for both min and max. This should help the system run
smoother by not allowing Windows to set the file as it wants and
take up real estate on the drive.

since the system tray extends more than half way across the
taskbar (there are 17 items plus the clock) once it has finished
loading, is it possible that the registry is too big?

I'm not too sure if there is a situation where the registry is
too big. From what you have indicated, this computer has many
TSR's running and that alone will be enough to hog memory.
Windows 9x is a memory hog anyway. You might want to try
installing more RAM........

The following is a mini tune-up for computers and it is suggested
that these steps be performed in the sequence indicated. It may
help a little or it may help a lot. Again, these tips come from
Windows Magazine

At least once a month practice a little PM on a hard Drive.
Perform these steps in the following order.

1. Delete all files and folders with dates older than one week.
(or    whatever time you feel is appropriate)
2. Run Scandisk set it to auto fix errors Click on Advanced
button and     under log file choose Replace Log Option; for
Crosslinked Files,       select Delete; click Free under the Lost
File Fragments heading;        check the option labeled "Invalid
dates and times" under Check Files    For, and disable the "Check
host drive first" option, unless the drive    has been
compressed.
3. Empty the Recycle bin.
4. Run Disk Defragmenter.

I hope this will help.

Sincerely,

Frank Suszka
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