JEJeffrey;3134562 Wrote:
> I have a very puzzling problem – my Windows XP PC shuts itself down from
> time to time. Not properly, either! It just goes off as if the power
> had been cut, then immediately reboots without any further action from
> me. Sometimes it restarts completely, but sometimes it fails again
> during the reboot and can take several tries before I get back to the
> desktop display.
> The manufacturer (Novatech) has run tests and are convinced there is no
> hardware problem (though I am not 100% convinced, since this is an
> intermittent fault). Apart from the waste of time waiting for the PC
> to become usable again, I am sure the registry must be getting
> corrupted by all these undisciplined shut-downs.
> Two questions – First, is there any software I can run in the
> background which will report the state of the system after one of these
> episodes?
> Second, is there any way of cleaning up the registry? All the packages
> I have seen rely on having been installed before a problem arises. If I
> re-install Win XP, does that rebuild the registry from scratch?

clean install of xp format disc all before will be gone you will have
brand new
xp,all your drivers,programs non microsoft will have to be reinstalled




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