how to regedit

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Guest

my IE home page was set by some other internet web site and unable to change
it back (what a company)!!
when I try to run the Regedit.exe, I got the error message "Registry Editing
has been disabled by your administrator"
I am using windows xp home, and my user name is definatelly the administrator.
how can solve it? thanks

friend
 
R

Ron Martell

Friend said:
my IE home page was set by some other internet web site and unable to change
it back (what a company)!!
when I try to run the Regedit.exe, I got the error message "Registry Editing
has been disabled by your administrator"
I am using windows xp home, and my user name is definatelly the administrator.
how can solve it? thanks

friend

Your computer has been infested with a "home page hijacker", which is
a type of spyware.

Try using MVP Jim Eshelman's Spyware Quick Fix Procedure at
http://www.aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm to clean up your computer. That
should also resolve the problem with running regedit.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

In memory of a dear friend Alex Nichol MVP
http://aumha.org/alex.htm
 
M

Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)

If your homepage of choice has been hijacked, and you can't change it back,
the registry editor is the last place to go..

I assume that the "What a company" remark pertains to the homepage that will
not go away.. perhaps you might tell us what it is?..

--
Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/User

"If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept
it all to themselves." - Lane Kirkland
 
G

Guest

Sounds like you've got some malware on your pc now. Try running a full virus
scan and Spybot-Search & Destroy and Lavasoft's Ad-Aware SE. Do this in safe
mode.
 

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