Repair XP reboot loop
I hope I'm starting another thread here, but just in case I'm posting to the thread most similar.
I did something dumb with the registry and lost my keyboard. So, I tried an XP repair from the XP disk.
The trouble is that - of course - when the screen comes up that requests I enter the CD key, I can't type. But when I then try to reboot - no other way bar turning off the computer and back on again - I'm right back where I started in the reboot. I can't for the life of me get rid of it.
I think I know what I need to do when I get back in - I can amend the registry back to where it was and continue from where I left off by cutting and pasting I hope - BUT I have to get out of the reboot loop first.
I've copied from c:\Windows\repair the files system, sam, software, security and er... the other one so that I can get into a basic XP configuration without all the bangs and whistles I've got the thing sorted out for over a year and a half and worse, without half my hardware operating.
What I need for sure is one simple thing but I can't find reference to it anywhere... the location of the instruction that tells Windows to go back into setup each time so I can delete the instruction, get back in and use cut-and-paste in regedit to undo my original mistake.
Anyone any idea where the instruction to keep sending me back into this loop is located?
Many thanks in advance...
Pete