Microsoft KB Archive/318159

= Damaged Registry Repair and Recovery in Windows XP =

Article ID: 318159

Article Last Modified on 10/10/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
 * Microsoft Windows XP Professional

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This article was previously published under Q318159



SYMPTOMS
When a registry hive becomes damaged, your computer may become unbootable, and you may receive one of the following Stop error messages on a blue screen:


 * Unexpected Shutdown
 * Stop:0xc0000135



CAUSE
Registry damage often occurs when programs with access to the registry do not cleanly remove temporary items that they store in the registry. This problem may also be caused if a program is terminated or experiences a user-mode fault.



RESOLUTION
NOTE: The hotfix that is described in this article automatically repairs the registry during startup, but does not display any notification of this process. If you import a damaged registry hive, you may receive a notification, and the recovery of the registry hive takes place as it imports.

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows XP. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

322389 How to Obtain the Latest Windows XP Service Pack

The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:

  Date         Time   Version      Size       File name 28-Feb-2002 10:13  5.1.2600.29  1,846,272  Ntkrnlmp.exe 28-Feb-2002 10:14  5.1.2600.29  1,901,568  Ntkrnlpa.exe 28-Feb-2002 10:14  5.1.2600.29  1,874,432  Ntkrpamp.exe 28-Feb-2002 10:13  5.1.2600.29  1,879,168  Ntoskrnl.exe



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Windows XP Service Pack 1.

Additional query words: corrupt corruption

Keywords: kbhotfixserver kbqfe kbbug kbenv kbfix kboswin2000fix kbwinxpsp1fix KB318159

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