Have you tried booting into Safe Mode to edit the registry? Or booting into Safe Mode and running System Restore? These links may help: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q307545 http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm Terry Rick wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to edit the registry using Win/XP when it won't >boot??? I can get to a command prompt using a Startup diskette, but I don't >know what the syntax is for getting the registry file to show. Any help will >be appreciated, Thanks in advance. > >Rick > > To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk