My computer specifics are - HP Pavilion dv6226tx, 1.60Ghz, 2.5GB DDR2 (2 + 512)RAM, 120GB Harddisk, with vista home premium 32-bit service pack 2

so here's the problem..



I have been playing around with my Vista for some days now. I patched my registry to account for custom visual styles and all.

The computer responded fine to all these changes until today. I installed Desktop Maestro 3.0.0.830 which according to the internet is a decent registry cleaner and works with vista sp2.

What I learnt from the net is that desktop maestro will clean registry and will quicken my startup. So i ran it, and it came up with 937 problems in my registry. So the next thing i did was "Repair". and it did just that. But since then my computer hasn't been starting up at all. Before the login screen comes, i get a blue screen, which remains for too short a time for me to read, and reboots.

So, I did the following...

Turned the computer on in Safe Mode, which worked perfectly. Ran desktop maestro again, and restored the computer to a previous state. This didn't work. it kept saying C: has some errors please check. But the disk check doesnt work.

So, there were some backup files of the previous files created by DM, so i just backed 'em up.

This seemed to work, as the login screen showed up this time. when i entered my password, it shut down again. Again i turned it on in safe mode, and this time i get the following message, along with the following error message.

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.768.3
Locale ID: 16393

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: f4
BCP1: 00000003
BCP2: 87E08790
BCP3: 87E088DC
BCP4: 82842650
OS Version: 6_0_6002
Service Pack: 2_0
Product: 768_1

Files that help describe the problem:
C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini071509-01.dmp
C:\Users\Prahar\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-251411-0.sysdata.xml
C:\Users\Prahar\AppData\Local\Temp\WER952.tmp.version.txt

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My computer is currently running in safe mode. So please tell me asap what to do?

Hey stoney-nutz,

Thanks a lot for your reply. However I have a problem there too.

My recovery disks are in my college hostel room, and I am here sitting at home I can access them in another 15 days though. If nothing else works, i guess i'll have to do that.

And my recovery partition, was lost when i installed ubuntu on my comp and removed it. Something happened and it was lost.

Any other suggestions?

The registry cleaner, will it fix registry problems? If there are any?

I remember reading a cmd command somewhere, that scans your registry for issues. Do you know it?

Yea, i agree with stoneys, i do believe in reg. cleaners and i do use CCleaner, its great, you jst gotta back up your registry in-case something happens

CCleaner's registry cleaner would be the only one I'd recommend if I ever had to recommend one, it's the only one that I've heard was problem free.

Cleaning the registry will NOT increase the performance of the computer though and should be used only when troubleshooting.

CCleaner's other tools are very useful though to increase the computer performance, I often clean the temp files and what's left by browsers with it, and I don't know why but it does increase the performance, only slowing the loading of webpages, but with today's internet speeds, that's not such a problem.

As for the problem, I'm not sure what could be doing that, but I could try and find what's going on if I get the time.