Microsoft KB Archive/321771

= You Receive a &quot;Stop 0x51 (REGISTRY_ERROR)&quot; Error Message =

Article ID: 321771

Article Last Modified on 2/20/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition

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This article was previously published under Q321771



SYMPTOMS
You may receive the following &quot;Stop 0x00000051 (REGISTRY_ERROR)&quot; error message during a registry operation:

STOP 0x00000051 (0x0000000c, 0xc0000005, 0xb0fccab4, 0xb0fcc70c)

The first two parameters are always the same. The last two parameters vary.



CAUSE
This problem is caused by a race condition on the input user-mode buffer for a registry function call.



Service Pack Information
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Windows 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

260910 How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack

Hotfix Information
A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft, but it is only intended to correct the problem that is described in this article. Only apply it to systems that are experiencing this specific problem. This hotfix may receive additional testing. Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this problem, we recommend that you wait for the next Windows 2000 service pack that contains this hotfix.

To resolve this problem immediately, contact Microsoft Product Support Services to obtain the fix. For a complete list of Microsoft Product Support Services phone numbers and information about support costs, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/?ws=support

Note In special cases, charges that are ordinarily incurred for support calls may be canceled if a Microsoft Support Professional determines that a specific update will resolve your problem. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for the specific update in question. The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:   Date         Time   Version        Size       File name -  06-May-2002  13:12  5.0.2195.5265     42,256  Basesrv.dll 06-May-2002 13:12  5.0.2195.4928    708,880  Kernel32.dll 06-May-2002 13:01  5.0.2195.5740  1,687,424  Ntkrnlmp.exe 06-May-2002 13:03  5.0.2195.5740  1,687,296  Ntkrnlpa.exe 06-May-2002 13:03  5.0.2195.5740  1,707,776  Ntkrpamp.exe 06-May-2002 13:01  5.0.2195.5740  1,665,152  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 Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4.

Keywords: kbhotfixserver kbqfe kbwin2ksp4fix kbbug kbfix kbqfe kbwin2000presp4fix KB321771

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