I'm not *completely* certain, but I highly suspect you get to reformat your
hard drive and start over.  I just read a really interesting Microsoft
Knowledge Base article at:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q174/2/65.asp

...which stated that IE4.x must be uninstalled before doing any of the
following:

* Installing an earlier version of Internet Explorer (3.0, 3.01, or 3.02).

* Restoring a registry (System.dat or User.dat) that was created before you
installed Internet Explorer 4.0 (this applies to Microsoft Windows 95 only).

* Using a Windows NT Emergency Recovery Disk (ERD) you created before you
installed Internet Explorer 4.0 (this applies to Windows NT only).

* Upgrading to a later release of Internet Explorer 4.0.

* Reinstalling your operating system (Windows 95 or Windows NT).

* Installing or uninstalling operating system upgrades (for example, Windows 95
Service Pack 1).

The article goes into great detail on how to uninstall IE4, what to do if IE4
doesn't want to uninstall, and known issues with uninstalling IE4, but doesn't
say what to if you have already done one of the no-no's listed above.

Roxanne Pierce
R2 Systems, San Diego
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On Sunday, March 08, 1998 04:41, Stephen J. Link [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
wrote:
> I was having a problem accessing my tape drive and was told by Seagate to
> exit to the DOS prompt and type REGEDIT /E A.TXT and came up with UNABLE TO
> OPEN REGISTRY message.  I was then told that my registry was messed up.  I
> got ms on the phone and went through the same procedure and then got cut
> off.  I had reinstalled win95 without uninstalling ie4.  Could that have
> created this problem?  Any idea of how to fix it?