How do I fix corrupt registry link list chains

[Guest]

Using the Add/Delete Program applet, I tried to remove the program
"Schoolcash reminder Service" (a malware program). It did not remove
properly. Now the Registry has a corruption in two places.

HKLM\SOFTWARE and
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\app Management\ARPcache

The corrpution in both places have an un-named key as the first entry with a
plus sign + next to it.

If you expand the unnamed key you will see all the key entries of the
previous level, including the un-named key with the plus sign next to it - ad
infinitum.

To me, this seem like the forward/backward link list that define the
registry internal structure has been corrupted and the entries are
ring-tailing back on itself.

- SOFTWARE - SOFTWARE
+ [] - []
+ Adobe - []
+ America Online + []
+ Adobe
+ America Online

Regedit will not delete the blank entries. It stackdumps and dies. Exporting
the HKLM\SOFTWARE tree creates a 6,800,000 KB .reg file and then REGEDIT
stackdumps and dies.

Is there a tool that will "walk" the link list or index and repair these two
corrutions?

 

[Ron Martell]

Using the Add/Delete Program applet, I tried to remove the program
"Schoolcash reminder Service" (a malware program). It did not remove
properly. Now the Registry has a corruption in two places.

HKLM\SOFTWARE and
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\app Management\ARPcache

The corrpution in both places have an un-named key as the first entry with a
plus sign + next to it.

If you expand the unnamed key you will see all the key entries of the
previous level, including the un-named key with the plus sign next to it - ad
infinitum.

To me, this seem like the forward/backward link list that define the
registry internal structure has been corrupted and the entries are
ring-tailing back on itself.

- SOFTWARE - SOFTWARE
+ [] - []
+ Adobe - []
+ America Online + []
+ Adobe
+ America Online

Regedit will not delete the blank entries. It stackdumps and dies. Exporting
the HKLM\SOFTWARE tree creates a 6,800,000 KB .reg file and then REGEDIT
stackdumps and dies.

Is there a tool that will "walk" the link list or index and repair these two
corrutions?

Try RegSeeker (free) from http://www.snapfiles.com/get/regseeker.html

Make sure you set a System Restore point manually before running it.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
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In memory of a dear friend Alex Nichol MVP
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