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. Go to Start, Shutdown, Restart in MS-DOS Mode.
2. At the DOS prompt, type CD \WINDOWS and press ENTER
3. Type ATTRIB -H -S -R SYSTEM.DAT and press ENTER
   (please note that the 0 in the filename extensions below are ZEROS, not OHS!)
4. Press the F3 key, backspace over the T, and type a 0 and press ENTER
5. Press the F3 key, backspace over SYSTEM.DA0, & type USER.DAT and press ENTER
6. Press the F3 key, backspace over the T, and type a 0 and press ENTER
7. Press the F3 key, backspace over USER.DA0, & type C:\DRVSPACE.BIN and press ENTER
8. Type DEL SYSTEM.DAT and press ENTER
9. Type DEL SYSTEM.DA0 and press ENTER
10. Type DEL USER.DAT and press ENTER
11. Type DEL USER.DA0 and press ENTER
12. Type DEL C:\DRVSPACE.BIN and press ENTER
13. You can now start a reinstall of Windows 95 which will replace your registry.

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