Popup window at windows startup

Hi there,

I just finish a new pc installation (which was never connected to the net). There is only office 2k3 and avast install on it. Every things is up to date.

When I restart the PC, a popup window appears and says :

“un des fichiers contenant les données du registre système a dû être restauré au moyen d’un journal ou d’une copie. La restauration a réussi.”

I searched the microsoft’s database and discover nothing. Then I uninstall Avast and the popup stops appearing at startup. So I think there is a problem with Avast.

I run Windows XP pro (Up to date).

Did you hear someone else with this problem ?

Best Regards,

Archange

Not sure of the problem, but if it helps, here’s a translation of that French sentence you posted:

“one of the files containing the data of the register system had to be restored by means of a newspaper or of a copy. The restoration succeeded.”

thanks man,

Maybe it could help people to find out the problem

Archange

It means one of the registry files was corrupt or broken and a previous copy was used to recover from the problem.

Previously in win98 (I’ve never used win2k), on boot there was a process that scanned your registry for errors and made a back-up, just in case of this type of problem. I can only assume that the same is happening in win2k.

Yes I know what it means but I thought it was an Avast problem because when I uninstalled Avast the problem disappear…

avast doesn’t scan registry files, rather files that are opened and on boot even less so. If avast found an infected registry hive ‘I would say highly unlikely’ it would throw up an alert, it wouldn’t delete it or try to repair it ‘an even more unlikely prospect.’

Is it possible that this is a bad sector chkdsk /f, etc. or a corrupt system file, sfc scannow

Sorry I thought for some weird reason that you were using win2k and not XP Pro as I am and I have never experienced this problem. If it were somehow related to avast I’m sure that there would be more topics in the forum about it and this is the first one I have seen in over three years on the forums as an avast user.