My Win2k is having trouble booting up, after the black screen with "Starting Windows 2000" screen, it goes into a blue screen that says "registry cannot load hive file SystemRoot\\System32\\Config ...

For example, version 3.5b and earlier of Adaptec Easy CD Creator are incompatible enough with Windows 2000 that they can cause it to blue screen, but the current version works fine.

By any chance you didn't adjust the video settings or change video drivers before this happened?<BR><BR>Right after the splash screen is when the installed video drivers load.<BR><BR>Using Win2000 ...

SP3 marks the largest service pack for Windows 2000 to date. The first service pack came in at 87MB, and the second was 101MB, according to Gravning.