I have ONE problem only! I use XP pro. After much work, I figured out the excact problem. Whenever I do any type of scan on my registry (virus scan, reg cleaner, etc... EVEN IF I DID A SIMPLE SEARCH FOR A STRING IN REGEDIT!) I would get the BSOD with a PAGE_FAULT.

I figured out that the excact registry string that triggers the bsod is:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVesion\Shar edDLLs
(The folder itself). (Any search would suddenly crash and I never saw where the search was holding in the registry, so what I did was video tape my computer screen from the start of a registry scan until the bsod crash and replayed the video until the last frame before the crash and saw that the above registry key was it. I manualy opened regedit and went there... and what do you know? As soon as I clicked on it to see the keys
and values on the right side... yes, BSOD!

I NEED to see the keys inside this "SharedDlls!!" to figure out what the problem is!

I thought of using the "real mode" regedit with the /e to copy the registry to a text file but that doesn't work with the XP hives. Even if I DO know what key to delete... I can't access it from windows - not even safe mode - because I get the bsod as soon as I try to access that registry spot. Even in dos I can't run the "scanreg" because I get "Windows found an error in your system files and was unable... bla bla bla".

HOW CAN I ACCESS THE SOFTWARE HIVE FROM DOS AND COPY THE HIVE TO A TEXT FILE that I can later change to a .reg file and reconstruct the registry?

Thank you.

Welcome to D-A-L Zvi!

I think that the best thing to do is to try accessing the registry while booted up from another OS that the reistry belongs to! I recommend the Ultimate Boot CD (http://www.ubcd4win.com/) what is a WindowsXP LiveCD loaded with usefull software (including registry tools).

Good luck!

Actually, I HAVE used that idea with a GREAT program called "Witernals Administrator's Pak." You should have a look too; I think you will enjoy it!
http://www.winternals.com/Products/AdministratorsPak

But UBCD4WIN looks interesting and I will try it!

Thanks!

HI Zvi - You might try Dependency Walker which is free from www.windll.com on the chance that it's a dll problem rather than a registry problem.
http://www.windll.com/modules.php?na...op=getit&lid=3

gut gluck!
-g-