NOTE: You, the customer, are solely responsible for data security. WinBook strongly recommends that you perform a backup of all personal data contained on your system prior to performing this procedure. Warning: WinBook will NOT be held responsible for any data loss incurred during this process.

In getting rid of corrupted entries or other problems with the System Registry in Windows 95 the following steps must be taken:

1. Click on Start, Shutdown, and then select Restart in MS-DOS Mode.
2. Type attrib -h -s -r system.dat and then press Enter.

Note: The 0 in the filename extensions below are ZEROS, not the letter O.

3. Press the F3 key, backspace over the t, type a 0 in it's place and then press Enter.
4. Press the F3 key, backspace over SYSTEM.DA0, type user.dat in it's place and then press ENTER.
5. Press the F3 key, backspace over the T, type a 0 in it's place and then press Enter.
6. Press the F3 key, backspace over USER.DA0, type c:\drvspace.bin in it's place and the press Enter.
7. Type del system.dat and then press Enter
8. Type del system.da0 and then press Enter
9. Type del user.dat and then press Enter
10. Type del user.da0 and then press Enter
11. Type del c:\drvspace.bin and then press Enter
12. You can now start a reinstall of Windows 95 which will replace your registry.

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