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lmitchell:
I,ve been having some issues with my laptop crashing which I went into at length on another forum (http://forums.majorgeeks.com/index.php?threads/frequent-explorer-exe-crashing-then-opens-libraries-or-my-documents-windows-long.301020/). In light of getting no response and as a last-ditch effort to avoid a risky upgrade install, I decided to try th Tweaking.com utilty since I had success with it in the simpler previous version. I actually have great hopes it might help.

However, as mentioned in the MajorGeeks thread, partway through the MSI repair it bluescreened. By then this had been running nearly 32 hours and I was reluctant to just stop it fearing the consequences.

My worst fears were realized because now I can only boot to a black screen with moveable cursor,  either  regular or safe mode.

lmitchell:
I have a recovery disk and a bootable usb install image. I've rooted around with the cmd in both Safe Mode and Recovery environments and even tried to start your app via command line.

I made registry and system restore  backups through the program before running it and have no idea how to access either. Last, when the system disk is listed in recovery environment or Diskpart it's now appended with "/regserver". SFC doesnkt run due to a "pending repair". I've restarted multiple times.

I really need your timely help on this. I'm self-employed and have lost the last two weeks to the initial problem, now this. I have expenses piling up. I can't afford any more multi day scans (3 18-hour chkdsks in the last week). How do I restore my system to where it was when I started running the repair. Then I'll either skip step 2 (which took 24 hours) and maybe 5, or all just forget the whole thing and do an upgrade install

Julian:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VbN0eWR9HMs
Here is a video Shane made to restore with registry backup from a live cd

lmitchell:
What about the fact that my hard drive got renamed from its original label to "/Regserver" ("Volume in drive D is /Regserver", according to cmd window in Recovery mode). Is that indicative of a bigger issue or something that needs to be resolved first, before I take the chance of bricking my OS? What about the "pending repair" (according to SFC) that won't go away? Are either of these preexisting conditions going to affect the success of the registry restore?

In the meantime I'll watch the video. I had to do manual reg restores frequently back when I had Windows 2000. It was really volatile and manually was the only way to fix it

lmitchell:
Julian, thanks for the pointers to the video. I happen to have a Linux live CD but mentioned that I have a bootable Windows  USB and a Windows repair CD.

Linux looks easier. I've watched the Linux and Windows videos. Problem is I only have use of a years old Android flip phone with a 3" screen and can't read the commands or file labels in the videos. I'm ready to restore pending if you can type out the folder/file names/commands and knowing that the issues I mentioned in my last post are't cause for concern.

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