I had a similar problem caused by cleansweep from norton. I watches over
the registery to keep track of what goes in. I shutdown the programs and
the problem went away.
Just a thought.
Darren
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Spriggle [mailto:rspriggle@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 10:22 AM
> To: vantage@egroups.com
> Subject: [Vantage] [off topic] Registry problems
>
>
> I'm trying to install a piece of PPP over ethernet (WinPoEt) for a DSL
> connection on a machine with Windows 98 first edition. The
> installation
> program will start and after verifying the link is there,
> will give the
> message "Unable to read registry entries. Program will now
> terminate" and
> then exits the setup program. Anybody ever come upon
> something like this?
> I tried reinstalling 98 which didn't help. I also checked to
> make sure the
> registry files weren't read-only as well. The software
> installed just fine
> on another similar machine with 98 1st edition, same
> anti-virus, etc.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rick
>
>
>
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