re: Control Panel missing, can't access regedit, WINNT folder appears empty, HELP!!
Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 1:35 pm
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Posted by Matt
(1 messages posted)
Go to Start, then run, and type "msconfig" and look at the "Services" and "Startup"
tabs. You're looking for WinavXX.exe, or something along those lines. That's spyware.
Had the same problem about a week ago, but LiveOneCare got rid of it for me (I'm
on XP). You could try the Trend Micro online scan. There are others, but that's the
easiest.
There should be two processes, WinavXX being one of them (can't remember the name
of the other one).
Then try to enable the Control Panel as you did before.
If you want to re-enable Regedit, use your 3rd party reg explorer and go to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Policies\System
Then change the value of 'DisableRegistryTools' to 0, and change 'DisableTaskMgr'
to 0 if haven't already.
GL
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