Windows replacing 'corrupt' registrys

Sometimes when I boot up I get the blue screen that says checking system files then 'windows restored a good version of the registry'. (It also happens with the program in windows occasionally) A few weeks ago I had this problem happening at least once a day. Even when I had run the scanreg fix program, deleted all the cab files and made new backups.

I noticed 3 or 4 other posts with similar problems, but none of the advice seems to have worked for me.

I've had the problem since last year sometime, so me and my dad decided to put windows 98 onto a new hard drive and use the old one just for storing unimportant stuff, and everything was ok for about a week, then it all started again. Using scanreg /fix works, and saves any installations I've made since the last backup, but it's a pain to be doing it every day.

Now it is less frequent, once every few days, but I've refrained from installing anything for a while.

Also, I made backups on a zip disk which were checked by the scanregw program and seemed ok, but when I got an error I restored one of these backups and it still considered it corrupted.

Are there any programs (preferably freeware) that can actually scan the registry and diagnose whats wrong? I also considered finding a way to stop the scanreg program running on bootup (to see if it's just windows making something out of nothing), but I don't know how, not with msconfig at least (I can disable the one that runs when windows starts by tthe way), plus I've been advised not to do that, do you think it's something worth trying?

Thanks

 

would this show up on the RAM check when booting up?

 

Anz, I know it is a bit hard to understand, when you finally get the computer going after replacing "corrupt' registries, the computer seems to run fine, that the ram is going bad.
Have you counted how many times windows has restored the registy backup? I know that this has been going on for a while from the other forum, and the only backup it is using is the same one. When it restores one, it takes the 'corrupted' one and overwrites one of your backups with it flagging it as corrupt, leaving you with one less each time, you only had 5 to begin with.
Other than buying new Ram, you can try the instructions about the dos commands and the registry cleaner in my last post in the other forum.