Computers help: On my laptop i can’t pull up the reg? - Help.com

hold windows key
whilke holding windows key press R
type regedit in the textbox press enter

sorted

alright now that i’ve found it i need to figure out what is wrong with it!

haha right what exactly is the problem whats going on the problem like ? any serious issues ? maybe i could try help if i know what you think the problem is haha

jay

well… i changed something about it about a year ago, but i never backed up my files before i did it so i’m not sure what i did but whatever i did now makes my computer shut down at random times and things are always coming up in little boxes saying something stopped working.

rite oh and its vista youre running yes ? with service pack one, as an assumption, rite then uh what process or program does it say has stopped working ?

oh and sorry for asking but are you a techy ? just want to know how basic to make the answer ;p

Jay

Sorta, but not really. I usually know my way around the computer pretty well, but I messed up somewhere. It usually says hard processing stopped working or superfetch.

rite i think that mite be more to do with services not the registry but i cant question if you know for sure that you did something to the registry however i would check all essential windows processes and check for a virus, these may not be problems but always a good idea, also id take a look at some form of registry repair program as hard processing is something to do with processes duh lol no if youve got vista then it mentions hard faults in performance monitor so its to do with memory and the processes that use it, superfetch is somewhat different as it collects data from hardrive or cache and dumps it into memory for use like realtime use ya know, a change in ram or ram upgrade could also cause this problem in this instance therefor as a solution to that problem id check the ram is compatible if it has not been changed/upgraded etc then id go back to looking at registry mechanic or something like that to figure out whats gone wrong or alternatively look through local machine resources in the registry

hope this helped im not sure if it will but thats how it sounds

jay

thanks! :)

welcome