hello

I don’t know if it’s the same issue I have had just after avast update to 9.0.2006 , but my wxp sp3 won’t boot in any mode => borked registry me too

it was possible to recover the 5 files (registry?)=> “sam” , “software” , “security” , “system” and “default” by something like this way
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545
5 olds files was in my corrupted HDD (C:\WINDOWS\repair) and able to be pasted with a 2nd clean HDD

Sorry if I’m totaly wrong on your issue :-[