Blue Screen of Death

[Monoriu]

So, the 00000051 registry error happened to my laptop, and it is stuck in a cycle of rebooting.

No idea if it is bad luck, virus, incompetent user, hardware fault, or all of the above. 

I managed to achieve a stable boot by pressing the F8 and F1 keys repeatedly during the boot-up process, and selecting "boot from last successful boot-up" or something like that. 

My question is, should I bring the laptop to a computer shop?  Anything else that I need to do?  Do I need to download a registry cleaner and if so, which one is decent?

[Grey Fox]

Stop using Deamon Tools.

[DontSayBanana]

So, the 00000051 registry error happened to my laptop, and it is stuck in a cycle of rebooting.

No idea if it is bad luck, virus, incompetent user, hardware fault, or all of the above. 

I managed to achieve a stable boot by pressing the F8 and F1 keys repeatedly during the boot-up process, and selecting "boot from last successful boot-up" or something like that. 

My question is, should I bring the laptop to a computer shop?  Anything else that I need to do?  Do I need to download a registry cleaner and if so, which one is decent?

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/1539aa70-4ee7-48ce-95b7-75a7c4110295/help-getting-bsod-windows-7-with-registry-error?forum=w7itproperf

PS - the Windows boot menu comes up with F8; you don't need to tap F1.

[Josephus]

Last time that happened to me, I got a Mac.

[garbon]

Well aren't you a little pussy?