c0000218 {Registry File Failure} The registry Cannot Load The Hive

diroga

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Windows was downloading updates and installing them and I stupudily played a game. Well game over man; the update failed and now the computer boots to
Stop: c0000218 {Registry File Failure} The registry Cannot Load The Hive (File): \SystemRoot\System32\Config\Software

I did a repair install a couple of days ago so I do not have restore point data files laying around. That seems to be a common fix. Is there a way to fix this without doing a windows install?
 

diroga

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did a repair install and it fixed the issue but looks like some icons are damaged and antivir is not updating and some other stuff is banged up....
 
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3uL

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Use spotmau. It can repair your registry to default setting and I tried it and it did a great job but the thing is the program itself is not free..
 
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