HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Software Classes BIG TROUBLE

[Mr.dumbassTheThird]

Uh OH, I apparently did something really bad. I was manually destroying some
spyware and I tryed to delete the registry directory:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes
I think I may have just broke all the associations to all my programs.
What can I do?

[Sahil Malik]

> What can I do?

For starters - Take a backup next time.

If this was XP, and if you haven't turned restore off on your drives, you
might have a slightly outdated registry backup available in the last
restore.

- Sahil Malik
You can reach me thru my blog http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/sahilmalik

"Mr.dumbassTheThird" <Mr****************@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:F0**********************************@microsof t.com...

Uh OH, I apparently did something really bad. I was manually destroying
some
spyware and I tryed to delete the registry directory:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes
I think I may have just broke all the associations to all my programs.
What can I do?

[JuLiE Dxer]

Perhaps, next time just use the free Adaware app to remove those
registry entries. I'd suspect you'd get better results.
On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 06:43:06 -0400, "Sahil Malik"
<co*****************@nospam.com> wrote:

What can I do?

For starters - Take a backup next time.

If this was XP, and if you haven't turned restore off on your drives, you
might have a slightly outdated registry backup available in the last
restore.

- Sahil Malik
You can reach me thru my blog http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/sahilmalik

"Mr.dumbassTheThird" <Mr****************@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:F0**********************************@microsof t.com...

Uh OH, I apparently did something really bad. I was manually destroying
some
spyware and I tryed to delete the registry directory:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes
I think I may have just broke all the associations to all my programs.
What can I do?