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[Bill Franklin]

I have this registry key in my system and can not remove
it. Fi-it Utilities deletes it, but it is (probably)
regenerated again immediately. Ihave deleted it manually
from the registry through Fix-it, and through
the "regedit" command in normal and safe modes. I
believe this is the reason Norton's Disk Doctor will not
run and gives me a message telling me that "the operating
system, or another process, currently has exclusive access
to this(C) drive, or some of its files". My guess is that
some malicious code is regenerating the key for some
unknown reason, and I don't know where it is coming from.

Does anyone know what this thing is and how to get rid of
it and whatever keeps regenerating it?

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

The complete path to this registry key would be helpful.

 

[Bill Franklin]

Sorry, I should have included this. The path is:

HKEY_LOCAL MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes|CLSID

Original Message-----

The complete path to this registry key would be helpful.

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"Bill Franklin" <[email protected]>

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[Star Fleet Admiral Q]

Duh - no the message told you exactly what the problem is "The OS - WinXP"
has exclusive use of the drive - as with "chkdsk", NDD has to be scheduled
to run at next boot if any of the repair options are selected.

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

This registry entry is normal. It exists on every system I own. Additionally, as Q pointed out, Disk Doctor, like DEFRAG or CHKDSK cannot work with files that are in use and locked by the system.

 

[Bill Franklin]

Duh- yes, and NDD runs with the next startup as
scheduled. Then when I look in the registry or run Fix-it
Registry Fixer, the key is back again. Sorry if I failed
to state every action taken, but every possible action
I know has been tried and has failed. NDD will get rid of
the key, remonving it manually from the registry can be
done, but it reappears as fast as it is removed.