PC SHUT DOWN & REOPENED IN DOS WITH MESSAGE "WIN HAS DETECTED A
REGISTRY?CONFIG ERROR. CHOOSE COMMAND PROMPT ONLY & FUN SCANREG. typed
SCANREG AFTER PROMPT - BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME.  TYPED
SCANREG/RESTORE AFTER PROMPT -BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME THEN TYPED
SCANREG/FIX. ALL BAD COMMANDS OR FILE NAME. SHUT DOWN PC AND RESTARTS
SAME - IN DOS WITH ABOVE MESSAGE.  DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO-HELP! THANKS

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Request for Question Clarification by bio-ga on 18 Jan 2003 17:35 PST

Hi,

Did you try the following:

CD WINDOWS
SCANREG /RESTORE

Regards
Bio

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Request for Question Clarification by tlspiegel-ga on 18 Jan 2003 19:45 PST

Hi backhoe,

It would be helpful if you could provide the following information: 
What OS (Operating System) you're using... win98, NT, 2K, XP???, and
does your system have a "SYSTEM RESTORE" in order to make the computer
go back in time to before you started getting all the error messages. 
Might be called GoBack, System Restore, etc.  Have you added anything
new to your computer such as more memory, a peripheral, a new program.
 Are you running AntiVirus?  More information will be most helpful. 
Thank you,

tlspiegel
Google Answers Researcher

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Request for Question Clarification by sycophant-ga on 19 Jan 2003 05:15 PST

Hi backhoe-ga,

Please refer to my answer to your slightly earlier question:
"Computer locked in DOS with above message."
https://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=145316

If that answer addresses the same issue in this question, you may wish
to cancel this question.

Regards, 
sycophant-ga

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Clarification of Question by backhoe-ga on 19 Jan 2003 11:06 PST

Am running WIN98, nothing new added to pc, hardware or peripherals and
am running anit-viris.
Have tried WINDOWS98\SCANREG /RESTORE  and WIN98\SCANREG /RESTORE in
caps and small letters.

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Request for Question Clarification by sycophant-ga on 19 Jan 2003 14:36 PST

Have you tried the suggestions in my answer to your earlier question
around the same issue?

Regards,
sycophant-ga

To find where the file is, load the command, follow the following:

cd \
dir /s scanreg.exe

You should hopefully be able to catch the directory in there when it
says it. If you do, type:
cd \DIRECTORY

in this directory, type:
scanreg /restore
It will bring up a listing of dates that you can restore to (Assuming
you hadn't disabled system restore.) Select one that you know it was
working on.

In Win98 it's normally in c:\windows\command\
Capitalization does not matter.