Microsoft strikes again
My workstation ate itself last night. Not fun. It was crying about the registry being corrupted, although I was able to read the registry just fine with a recovery disc.
Interesting factoid: the SYSTEM registry file was 150 MB. On every other machine I own, and on other machines I looked at, this file was closer to 7-10 MB. This file has been like this for a while, if the restore point folders are to be believed.
Unbelievably enough, I was able to recover it with a Windows XP Repair installation. The system appears stable, and all my apps are still installed and working. And the SYSTEM registry hive is only 5.5 MB.
Anyhow, it’s running again, and the app that I blamed for the blowout (McAfee VirusScan) is installed and running happily.
Now we’ll see how long it lasts.