Did you try fixing the permission on the registry hives that are broken?
Give the user read/write access with regedit and see if that fixes the
matter? (in case you never did any registry permission stuff, just
right-click whatever needs changing, check permissions...from there on it
works identical to NTFS permissions).

Reinstalling sometimes fixes stuff, but in my opinion it is usually "garbage
in is garbage out"...

For the drive letters, sound like the drive with the OS on it does not have
a primary partition, else it should be listed before a secondary drive.


"Christoph" <jcboget@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:LHhqf.8561$RZ6.4084@bignews7.bellsouth.net...
>> Is this computer dual booting? How is it partitioned and what is located
>> where?
>
> No, it's not. I've got 2 drives, each with just one partition. My
> primary
> drive has the XP installed on it and my slave has my applications
> installed.
> During the setup, it is showing my slave drive as drive C: and my primary
> drive as drive F:
>
>> What are your serious issues with your Windows XP installation?
>
> Something is wrong with the registry and I no longer have access to do
> anything with many of the keys, even when logged in as the computer admin.
> This presents problems when applications are trying to write to the
> registry
> (such as when Outlook Express tries to make itself the default mail app).
>
> thnx,
> Christoph
>