Rani writes:

<<As from few days ago, I am getting a message at 1st startup
saying that some registry files were found no good and that a
good backup copy of the registry was restored.

Is this a sign of something really bad is about to happen
soon?
If so, what pre-emptive measures do you suggest?>>

What version of Windows?

Is this happening regularly, or only once?

If it is happening regularly, you need to restore the registry back to a
time well before this problem appeared. How you do that depends on what
system you have.

Otherwise, there's a fair chance that you might run into more serious
problems, depending on how badly the registry is corrupted.  This is often
caused by bad shutdowns followed by improper procedure on the following reboot.

In Win XP you can use its System Restore. Go back to a date well before
this problem first appeared.

You could check my tutorial below on registry backups for more detailed info.

Don Penlington
(From the at beach Surfers Paradise).
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