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After updating Reader 7 and then restarting Windows (per the update pop-up dialog box), I got the "Blue Screen of Death" error:

STOP: c0000218 {registry file failure}
The registry cannot load the hive (file):
\SystemRoot\System32\Config\SOFTWARE
or its log or alternate.
It is corrupt, absent, or not writeable.
Beginning dump of physical memory ...

I'm running W2K Pro with latest SP and updates, have plenty of RAM and disk space, run AV, AS (Anti-Spyware), firewall, and maintain my system well. From reading other forums, this may have been caused by software updating the registry, over and over, thus causing one of the hive files to "bloat" excessively. Anyone else experience this? I can't reboot, even in safe mode, or from last good config. When I tried to boot from W2K setup diskettes, get error:

File \ntkrnlmp.exe could not be loaded.
The error code is 7
Setup cannot continue ...

Any know of a solution short of reloading Windows?

Thanks,
Paul