Think I may have screwed up my registry...

xdyldogx said:

So I was trying to uninstall Tune Up Utilities 2011. I tried using Revo Uninstaller and it seemed to uninstall it. Afterwards it asked if I would like to clear my registry of Tune Up's values. So I hit yes without looking at the things is was going to erase. After that, my computer began acting weird, shutting down programs I was trying to open, flashing windows and stuff. So I turn off my pc and went to go start it up again. When I did, I got past the windows 7 launch screen (those little dots appearing), but then I just get stuck at a black screen. The cursor is there and I can move it but other than that nothing works. My system is a Tri-Boot between Windows 7, Vista and Ubuntu. I'm in Ubuntu now and can switch to Vista if it could help me solve my problem.

Any suggestions? Thanks :)

My initial recommendation would be a system restore, but that may not help.
If you have an Windows 7 installation disk, then you could also try a repair install of Widows to see if that did it

Other then that, Registry changes are sudo-permanent.

-DGS

Hello Dyldog, and welcome to Seven Forums.

You could do a system restore at boot using a restore point (if available) dated before this to undo it.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

repair install is the only thing that really comes to mind. Since we have no idea what you removed.

Revo Uninstaller creates a restore point before the uninstall so if you can get in there should be one. Do you have a recovery disk?

xdyldogx said:

kado897 said:

Revo Uninstaller creates a restore point before the uninstall so if you can get in there should be one. Do you have a recovery disk?

Currently downloading that NeoSmart one I found on here.

I don't know that one. I was thinking of the winpe repair disk. You may also be able to get into recovery by pressing F8 on startup.

I think the windows Install disk allows you to get into recovery if you have one.

Ok, so an update.

Downloaded / Burned the recovery disk. Revo did make a restore point... but when I try to restore there it tells me there is some corruption in the Disk. It told me to run chkdsk /R on the drive. I did with the command prompt in the recovery menu and it found no errors. Tried to restore again and got the same thing. I'm thinking fresh install time, any other suggestions?

Thanks for all your help :)

EDIT: Also, is there a way I can back up whats still on there? Like I said, I still have access to Vista and Ubuntu on the same machine.