John Navas hath wroth:
Hmmm.... I guess the difference is that clients pay me after I do the work. Victims pay me in advance. I have mostly clients and only a few victims. I greatly prefer victims to reinforce my cash flow, but the supply seems to be limited.
That's also true for editing the registry. So far, my clients, victims, and I have been either very lucky or very good. I prefer to believe it's mostly the latter.
Nice, well done, and substantial improvment over my method. However, I learned to backup the registry from the daze of Windoze 95, where my method was the only one available. See:
I found that it worked well thru Windoze ME and never found much reason for improvements, especially when I tried them and found the problems that I previously mentioned.
Repairing an unbootable Windoze 98SE machine usually does not involve directly modifying the registry, even though the exercise will probably make changes. The point is to backup the registry in case my remedial actions result in furthur damage. If scanregw can't run, then I would be working without a registry backup, which is generally considered to be a bad idea.