After running the CCleaner and blindly fixing all issues my xp will not not boot. It will get to the windowsw screen during boot up then just remain with a black screen. I know I saved a backup of the registry during the process of the fix however. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Gary

Are you able to boot into safemode?

Thanks for the reply - No, I have tried safe mode and last known..... both without success - still boots into black screen following windows logo at boot.

Did you use the 'Tools' section of CCleaner (Startup and uninstall) or just the cleaner and issues sections?

I am just using the cleaner and issues section only.

Forgive me if I am telling you something you already know.

On this computer (Compaq, running WXP up to date), I never see the windows logo on the way to safe mode. I just tried it.

Starting from off (not restart), I press and hold the f8 key immediately after turning the power on. I briefly see the Compaq logo, then a black screen with a lot of choices listed.

If I use the arrow keys to move up to safe mode, then hit enter, then:
1. a bunch of scrolling takes place, this takes a while,
2. I am asked to log in as an account holder (owner), and
3. then. . .this is where it gets interesting. . .a dialog box asks if I want safe mode or system restore.

Try that, I bet if you can get as far as the system restore choice box you can get up and going.

There is a file attached. It has the relevant help files from this computer.

Good luck. Let me know if it works.

I had the exact same problem as you. Your registry is corrupted. You will have to manually restore from a dos boot disk. There are instructions on how to do this on the web. I did this and was able to get back into windows. I then tried other registry cleaner programs to fix the registry but the same problem would occur. I did notice that the backup that CC saved was alarmingly large (like 4MB). So after manually restoring again, I saved all the data I needed to a second hard drive and them restored my system from scratch. I'm not blaming CCleaner, I still use it on several PC's and have not had any other problems.

Good Luck
Bigwayne