Last Known Good boots; blue screen otherwise

[Guest]

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Very strange problem here. A few weeks ago my laptop started blue screening
when booting XP normally. I tried backing out to various earlier system
retore points that I know were good at the time and still got the same
behavior. Then I tried last known good (LNG) and it booted normally, although
some of my desktop configuration settings were missing. I've been living this
way for a while (booting into LNG), but it's a pain since it seems to lose
track of which Windows Updates I've installed and a few other niggling
settings. Is there a way to re-sync the registry so that the system can use
my current state as the normal boot state?

TIA for any help.

 

[bar]

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When starting from the 'Last Known God': do you take trouble to run Anti
Virus Updates / Scanning and also Spyware Updates and Scan?

Do all of this AND then create a restore point.

The computer should then reboot 'normally' with this new or revised
configuration and settings.

"kmarko" wrote:

> Very strange problem here. A few weeks ago my laptop started blue screening
> when booting XP normally. I tried backing out to various earlier system
> retore points that I know were good at the time and still got the same
> behavior. Then I tried last known good (LNG) and it booted normally, although
> some of my desktop configuration settings were missing. I've been living this
> way for a while (booting into LNG), but it's a pain since it seems to lose
> track of which Windows Updates I've installed and a few other niggling
> settings. Is there a way to re-sync the registry so that the system can use
> my current state as the normal boot state?
>
> TIA for any help.

 

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"BAR" wrote:

> When starting from the 'Last Known God': do you take trouble to run Anti
> Virus Updates / Scanning and also Spyware Updates and Scan?
>
> Do all of this AND then create a restore point.
>
> The computer should then reboot 'normally' with this new or revised
> configuration and settings.
>
> "kmarko" wrote:
>
> > Very strange problem here. A few weeks ago my laptop started blue screening
> > when booting XP normally. I tried backing out to various earlier system
> > retore points that I know were good at the time and still got the same
> > behavior. Then I tried last known good (LNG) and it booted normally, although
> > some of my desktop configuration settings were missing. I've been living this
> > way for a while (booting into LNG), but it's a pain since it seems to lose
> > track of which Windows Updates I've installed and a few other niggling
> > settings. Is there a way to re-sync the registry so that the system can use
> > my current state as the normal boot state?
> >
> > TIA for any help.