(In circa January 2002 I crashed Wined. This is the story of my recovery.)
I went into REGEDIT and deleted all the stuff under WinEd after a fresh boot and LO! WinEd
worked again -- nothing else was changed. That is, I crashed, but WinEd fired up at the
problem line so I could fix it. But WordPad/Write died in exactly the same manner WinEd had. WinEd continued to putt right along.
This is what had caused my REGISTRY problem: I forgot to finish a routine. IF.. ELSE.. I forgot the THEN and I also forgot the semicolon at the end of the routine before starting up a new colon definition.
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Anybody got a handle on the Registry.F stuff and how to prevent writing bad data? The lack of "syntax checking" problem is not as live threatening as the Registry problem and will likely work itself out as I become familiar with Win32Forth and add more "fixes" to my own system (later to be offered publicly).
Tips, hints, suggestions are ALL, welcome.
PPS. REGEDIT.EXE is in your WINDOWS directory. The keys that are (relatively) safe to DELETE are in: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\WinEd\Settings
Always backup the entry before deleting it. And only delete what you are sure you can get away with.