can registry problems cause your computer to  go into a shutdown while using it?
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Simple answer: Yes.\n\n\nA little more complex answer: If you screwed with your registry without knowing what you are doing, do yourself a favor and reinstall windows.  Registry can and will cause a computer to go into shutdown.  If you want to go through some ahssel, try to do a system restore to take you back to before this problem happened
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Umm.. I think I know exactly what it does to the registry. If you want to do it I posted the instructions below:\nTo improve the core system performance in Windows XP, you need to make certain modifications to the registry entries. \n\nWARNING: Using Registry Editor incorrectly can cause very serious, system-wide problems. Incorrect entries may cause installation problems or prevent the computer from starting. You may be required to reinstall the operating system. \n\nYou will not be warned of incorrect entries while you edit the Registry to change values. Therefore, please back up the registry files by following these steps: \n\n1. Click Start, select Run, and type Regedit. \n2. From File menu, click Export file. \n3. Select "All" option to take a complete backup of the registry. \n4. Enter "regback" as the file name and save it on the desktop. \n\nIf you make any incorrect entries, the backup file can be used to replace the corrupted registry entries. \n\nAfter taking a backup of the registry, change the "DisablePagingExecutive" option to "1" by following these steps: \n\n1. Click Start, select Run, and type regedit. \n2. Click the plus (+) sign beside HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. \n3. Click the plus (+) sign beside System. \n4. Click the plus (+) sign beside CurrentControlSet. \n5. Click the plus (+) sign beside Control. \n6. Click the plus (+) sign beside Session Manager. \n7. Click Memory Management. \n8. Locate and right-click the "DisablePagingExecutive" option on the right pane. \n9. Select Modify. \n10. Change the value to "1". \n11. From the Registry menu, click Exit. \n12. Restart the system. \n\nThese steps will keep the core Windows system in memory and not paged to the disk. As a result, the core system performance will be improved.
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One way is to restore to a previous copy of your registry, Which is not the same as a complete system restore, but if you are lucky, may do the trick. \n\nGo to registry editor (Start - run - type "regedit" - enter)\n\nIn the file option, select restore and choose a previously backed up copy of the registry.\n\nAll the best.
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online and free :(very cool)\nhttp://safety.live.com/site/en-US/center/howsafe.htm\nhttp://safety.live.com/site/en-US/center/cleanup.htm\nbut don't forget that it needs internet explorer.\n\nyou don't need to go to registry.changing registry without knowlwdge may cause your windows not to work.\nbut if you want you can go to start-run-regedit
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Manually editing a registry can be very dangerous.  If you are not 100% sure of what you are doing, don't do it.  Also, make sure you have a backup of your data before you mess around with it.  Danger lurks.\n\nAnyway, the administrator account should be able to edit the registry.  May just want to check you user account settings to make sure the administrator account really does have administrator access.  It can be taken away.  May also be the result of spy ware or a virus.
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Typically (not always) a registry problem is identified when a program or file on your computer cannot be matched up with a registry entry or visa versa. What most of the programs do is scan your computer for installed programs and look for the corresponding registry key in your registry...then after that comparison is done it scans your registry and compares what it found there to what is actually installed on your computer...then gives a huge warning and recommendation on clearing the unassociated keys from your registry...\n\nWhat this does for you...typically NOTHING!!! The registry keys rarely IF EVER will cause you any problems if they are not directly associated to a program...that is why I will NEVER use a registry scanning program! If I uninstall something from my computer I have learned that virtually NEVER does it remove its registry keys....why? because it CAUSES NO HARM!! I will, just because I can, search for the related keys/values and delete them manually. I have tons of experience with this and only because of that do I play around with it....\n\nRecommendations: Leave it alone!!
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You might be having spyware on your machine.\n\nFirst use the antivirus and antispyware software you have to run a full system scan. Do it in the windows safe mode. (AVG and avast antivirus softwares are free while a 6 month free trial for Norton is available at pack.google.com. Lavasoft's free Ad-Aware is the best antispyware to my knowledge. Also Windows Defender from Microsoft is good enough for real-time protection). This should identify the problem and most probably would solve it as well. However, if the antivirus software is unable to delete the malware, go to Norton's website and search for the name of the malware detected. Their must be some instructions posted to tackle the problem. You might have to delete the system restore points and as well delete the particular registry entries manually if the virus still regenerates on subsequent boot up of the machine. Good Luck.\n\nPS. If you are still having trouble, use Hijack This and copy the log it generates and post it on some tech help forum. I am sure there will be plenty of people ready to help you out.\nAlso chuck Internet Explorer and switch to Mozilla Firefox!
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some application that is running and then refuses to close down on its own when you shut your computer shuts down, if you want it to stop happening, run msconfig.exe and then uncheck it in the start up menu, if it doesnt start up it cant be forced to close down, if its some crap you need for your comp to run well then , kill yourself and blow up your computer at the same time cuz i dunno
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CrapCleaner is good software for cleaning the registry, and it's free.  I also use System Mechanic.\n\nWhat error messages are you getting online?
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have u tried using regedit????\n\n\ni guess you havent yet,,,\n\nbecause almost all infos can be seen in registry\nyou can even  manually clean a virus.. and change the name of your recycle bin or your "START"menu...\n\njust be very carefull when dealing with windows registry....
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if you have windows 2000/XP then you can when booting press F8 and then choose last good known configuration (this option is ment for cleaning and restoring the last good registry you had before)
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Great question and thanks for participating. It's obvious that you have a great deal of knowledge with computers simply because you wouldnt have the particular equipment in your computer if you didnt. There are a few things that can cause that problem as you know, cookies and temp files being the main cause. Also, by defragging the hard drive will help. The registry files can also cause problems of that nature and will need to be cleaned up and repaired if necessary. Registry cleaners are available at no charge in some cases and can be found by using www.google.com. Last of all, do not overlook the possibilities of trojans, viruses, etc which can also cause that problem for you. If I can help in any way, plz let me know and i'll work with you step by step until the problem is solved. Hit me on dumbbutt4321@yahoo.com if you'd like. Larry RadioShack 01-9590
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in all honesty, once your registry is damaged, there is almost nothing that can be done to heal it.. but if you're looking for a great tool to help maintain and keep it tidy, go here and download this..\n\nhttp://www.worldstart.com/weekly-download/archives/reg-cleaner4.3.htm
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get windows registry repair pro.\n\nand by the way that's ur router's address/
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Try to reinstall windows. or registry repair software from download.com for free
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YOU CAN TRY A FREEWARE NAMED WINPOOCH WATCHDOG WHICH THOUGH IS AN ANTISPYWARE BUT IT BASICALLY ALERTS YOU WHENEVER A PROGRAM TRIES TO CHANGE OR MODIFY YOUR WINDOWS REGISTRY . IT IS ONE PROGRAM WITH GREAT POTENTIAL . IT CAN BE DOWNLOADED FROM  http://sourceforge.net/projects/winpooch
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Well, one problem is its Emachines.  I personally don't like them.  Ive heard alot of bad things, and ive seen a couple of them in person.  Its not the company necessarily, but the parts they use.  \n\nNow, it could be a couple things.  It could be an update that messed things up.  You may have to find and delete it.  \n\nIt could be you have a spyware/adware or something.  But, the only ones that I have ever seen actually shut off your computer.  Ive heard of alot of them, but ive only seen those.  \n\nTry defrag, scandisk, diskcleanup in the Start > All Programs > Accessories > System tools.  Diskcleanup you have to open My Computer, right click on the drive, hit properties, hit the TOOLS tab, then hit scandisk it also says error checking.  \n\nTry this program, Forceshutdown.\n\nhttp://www.download.com/Force-Shutdown/3000-2094_4-8369708.html?tag=lst-0-1\nIt will shut everything down without saying anything.  Its like the normal shut down, but theres no prompts that ask you to shut down, or save information or anything, it just does it.  Ive also found its quicker then the normal shutdown.\n\n\nAlso, run spyware programs, adware programs, virus programs, etc.  \n\nHeres a small list of free ones.  \n\nSpybot :  SEARCH and destroy.  If you find one that is Seek and destroy, DON'T download it, its spyware.  \n\nAdware\n\nAvast or AVG.  Avast is good but it takes another program to delete it fully, AVG is also good.  But I wouldn't run both at the same time, they could counter each other causing problems, nothing major though, just one may freeze.  \n\nYahoo Antispy Toolabar\n\nCCleaner will delete cookies and clear history.  It can also check for Registry problems, but only minor ones.  Youll have to use something like, Ace Utilities for that.  But, if you are unaware of what your doing, I wouldn;t use it.  You can really screw things up if you misuse it by deleting something that is a main file. \n\nAlso, if you don't have a firewall, use Zonealarm (free version).  I dont like Norton or Mcafee, both have problems.  Norton likes to take over the registry and slows stuff down.  Mcafee likes to ask for money, and its also a registry assimilator.  If you pay now, 5 months down the road they ask for your yearly subscription.  \nZonealarm is free and it works.  But, Zonealarm also has a paid version that has alot more features including Virus and Spyware checkers.  \n\n\nHope I helped.