Vista - Registry problem

First of all I have to admit to causing this problem due to some over
zealous editing! I was attempting to re-install a program which kept
on saying it was already installed despite the correct unnstall via
control panel. I had to go through the registry and delete al
references to it and it would seem that I have deleted a key
incorrectly!

When I try to run msconfig I get this message --

"The system could not find the environment option that was entered"

and if I try to go to the secuity centre I get this message --

Windows cannot find %windir%\\system32\\wscui.cpl

Looks like I have deleted some environment variable(s) so does anyone
know how to recover them please?

TIA


cheers,
Len

Restore the backup copy you made before you started editing

--

Bob Eyster
MS Windows Vista Home Premium



"Len Cuff" <len.cuff@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:26:58 -0500, "Bob Eyster"
<reyster1@xxxxxx> wrote:
I would if I could get System Restore to work!!

cheers,
Len

"Len Cuff" wrote:
Len,

I may be wrong, but I think Bob Eyster was speaking about the registry
backup itself. Did you back up the registry before altering it?
Have a nice day.

C.B.

You are having some serious install/uninstall problems; you may indeed have a
corrupt registry. Please see these two tutorials for help with
install/uninstall problems and your Repair Vista Options. If these fail to
help, you might need to run a good registry scanner/cleaner.

Unable To Install Latest Version of Program on Vista

Repair Vista Options - Preferred Sequence

http://www.ccleaner.com/

http://wisecleaner.com/download.html


"Len Cuff" wrote:

On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 09:24:08 GMT, Len Cuff <len.cuff@xxxxxx>
wrote:

In the end I decided to bite the bullet and clone my boot disk from a
copy I had made a couple of days ago. I think something went seriously
wrong with the registry so this was the easy way to recover it all.
Glad to say it all worked fine and I am now back to a stabel state
again.

Thanks for all the advice and help on this one but I think I deleted
some rather vital registry entires my mistake!


cheers,
Len

Len Cuff wrote:Some time ago I did just what you did and since then I use Erunt to backup
my registry. It's free and you can have it backup daily if you want.
If you play around in the registry it is a must-have prog. :-)
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt
..

On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 22:22:14 -0000, "bomb#20" <darkstar@xxxxxx> wrote:
I also have that but I thought it was only for XP? Is it Ok with
Vista? I did have a complete backup made with Genie Backup but it was
a bit older than the disk clone I had made. Maybe I am a bit mad but I
usually make a complete clone of my boot drive once a week using
Acronis 10. It certainly saved me this time!

cheers,
Len

OK guys, he hased muched up his reqistry file. Now tell him how to recreat it