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Help!! Win2k is DYING!

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Dundain

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Ok, my system was running fine for 5 days, and then I installed TweakUI and the new version of AVP Anti-Virus software...then rebooted. All my problems started at that reboot...

First when it restarted it gave me tons of errors, all related to accessing some memory location, saying it wasnt there. Finally, after about 4 restarts, and 2 cold boots I finally got into Windows 2000 by booting into safe mode. Even there I was getting the memory location errors (sorry I cant give you exactly what it says, but it changes everytime) but I removed TweakUI and the Anti-Virus software (thinking they were the cause).

Then I booted into Win2k normally, and didnt have any errors...until I tried to load Winamp. Got all the memory errors again, restarted the computer and booted into Windows 2000 again fine. This time Winamp loaded fine, but then I connected to the internet which worked fine. I tried to check my email (Using Eudora 5.1) which loaded fine, but on closing crashed. Then all hell started. Nothing would work except Winamp, ICQ, and IM...everything else would give me the memory error...

Now, should I just reinstall the operating system? (Hopefully I can get by without reformating, but if I have to I will) Or can I fix it by doing something?
 
Easy. Just use your Emergency Repair Disk. It will roll back your comp to when you last backed it up.

If you (gasp!) didn't make one, then you can try:

1) checking for virii (long shot)
2) checking your hard drive for errors (your virtual memory could be messing you up) go into windows explorer, right click the drive, go to properties then tools, and analyze the disk. You will probably need to reboot.
3) go into your admin account and see if things work there. If so, you can just delete your other profile and start from scratch there. No need to completely reinstall. If you messed up your admin account because that was your only user, well, now you have another thing besides an ERT to remember to do when you reinstall windows.
4) Tweak UI has a "repair" tab where you can attempt to repair the registry, if that is your problem.
5) reinstall just SP2 -- that will overright a ton of files that might have been corrupted (it's a "mini win2k install")
6) use WinME or upcoming XPhome, for the registry rollback/backup feature. Not to be mean, but Win2k is not meant to be just installed and forgotten about. You need to do periodic maintenance on it, like ERT backups and the like. If you don't want to, I would strongly suggest using a "home" version of windows instead.

See the first sec of the page on my sig to make a ERT for the next time.
 
If you have a registry repair tool try using that and also remove all registry left overs from AVP and TweakUI
 
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