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I have a Sony Vaio E series premium laptop and after upgrading to windows 8 I got the "IOLORGDF32 Program not found skip autocheck" problem that seems to be pretty common when upgrading on a Vaio. So I found this tutorial on how to get rid of it and tried to follow it to the best of my ability. The problem arose around step 6 and I think I ended up in HKEY_LOCAL instead of HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and so I ended up deleting the session manager registry key because that's what showed up when I searched iolorgdf32. Now my computer won't boot and isn't able to auto repair itself. I did make a backup of the registry key before I deleted it and saved it to My Documents because I didn't know where else to save it to. Any help fixing this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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Short, practical recovery plan that follows the advice already posted by and and gives exact, low-risk steps to restore the deleted Session Manager entry.

First: find the exported .reg file from the Ubuntu live session. On most Live CDs the Windows partition mounts under /media; search for .reg from a terminal:

sudo find /media -type f -iname '*.reg' 2>/dev/null
sudo find / -type f -iname '*.reg' 2>/dev/null   # broader, slower

Look under the user Documents folder (C:\Users\<yourname>\Documents). If you find it, copy it somewhere easy (C:\ or the root of the Windows partition).

Preferred restore (safe, precise): use Windows install/repair media and import the .reg into the offline SYSTEM hive.

  1. Boot install media → Repair your computer → Advanced → Command Prompt. Use diskpart/list volume to identify the Windows drive letter.
  2. Run regedit. Select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE → File → Load Hive and open <WindowsDrive>:\Windows\System32\config\SYSTEM. Give it a name like OFFLINE_SYSTEM.
  3. In regedit check OFFLINE_SYSTEM\Select and note the value of “Current” (usually 1). Edit your .reg file in Notepad so every key path that started with
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet
    is replaced with
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\OFFLINE_SYSTEM\ControlSet00X
    where X is the Current value you noted. Save and then File → Import in regedit. After import, select OFFLINE_SYSTEM → File → Unload Hive and reboot.

If you can’t find a .reg: check the registry backups in the RegBack folder and restore them (backup the current files first). From the repair command prompt:

mkdir C:\RegBackupOrig
copy C:\Windows\System32\config\* C:\RegBackupOrig\
dir C:\Windows\System32\config\RegBack
copy C:\Windows\System32\config\RegBack\* C:\Windows\System32\config\

Only copy RegBack files if they are non‑zero size.

Cautions: always back up any file you overwrite, do not guess drive letters, and unload any hive you load. The import method targets exactly the SYSTEM hive (where Session Manager lives) and avoids risky blind edits to other hives.

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If you can't implement the registry key back-up. On a different computer (obviously) download ubuntu and burn it to a CD.
Boot your computer from the CD drive.
Access C:\ and replace the damaged/missing registry files with your back ups.

Avoid using regedit at all costs, there is usually a less risky way to solve things.

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Thank you for the reply. I created an ubuntu live CD and have accessed C:\ but I can't find the .reg files. I think they might be in System32 but I can't find anything that ends with .reg and even if I did I'm not sure exactly what Session Manager is named. Any ideas?

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