Help Pls w/highjack this

HI Dave

Follow your instrutions it said it cant copy into regester editor error.

no did not need to change permission.

Yes I did run the regSeeker from your link for Altnet.

????

 

In spybot > Tools uninstall information select then delete items that wont uninstall.
Realy no need for manual editing.

 

Thank you,
Spybot worked in removing Kazaa from the Add/Remove panal, but still can't remove Altnet from the Registry????

 

Are you logged in as a user with admin rights, when editing the reg ?

Frankly I wouldnt bother, there will always be some left-overs (clutter) in the registry

 

Thank you

Clutter wins...sad, I will get over it ...lol

 

Don't give up, yet. There is one more thing to try. XP will execute an instruction from the Autoexec.bat file, if something is there. Put this command in the Autoexec.bat, and reboot.
c:\windows\regedit.exe /d hkey_local_machine\software\altnet
If Autoexec.Bat does not exist, use Notepad to create, Save As "c:\autoexec.bat ", with the quotes. This way it doesn't end up saved as C:\Autoexec.Bat.Txt.

 

Hi Mark

Can't find Autoexec.bat, until I try to save as from notepad, it asks me to replace it, question do i replace it?

 

No. If it's asking to replace, the file exists. Go to start>run and type sysedit. It will open a window with 4 pages, the first being autoexec.bat. Copy/paste the command line in and close. Yes when prompted to save. Reboot and remove the line.

 

No it didn't work, still ere?????????

 

Amazing! I'm baffled, but I'm going to keep looking for a solution. Will let you know when I find something else to try. It's not hurting anything, I just hate to admit to defeat with something like this.

 

Done it! I've removed Altnet from the regedit .....Noah u were right I did not have permission to remove it, when i installed Windows service pack 2 it allowed me 2 get permission at the subkey point by right/clicking it.

Thank you all....

 

WooHooo! Just made my day! Were the instructions I gave for setting permissions correct? Also wanted to ask if you ever ran RegSeeker in the clean registry mode? Your computer would thank you with performance improvement. I have never had any problems deleting everything it finds, but that does not mean you won't. Make sure the backup box in the lower left corner is checked before deleting anything. Select all and right click in the results pane to choose delete. I generally reboot at this point and check out my programs to ensure they are still working properly, then run it again. I do this until no more entries are found.

Thanks for posting back!!

 

Hi Dave,
Yes your instrutions were correct, but on r/click it give me a error message.

Only update same to help. I think something else was wrong somewhere?

Yes I did run Reg Seeker it remove most of it from the reg.

Thanks

 

Thanks. Not sure why the updates would make a difference. I may have to take a closer look at SP2 to see if it changes something with permissions for accounts with admin rights.

Good to hear you used RegSeeker. Check out the options on the Histories button too.

BTW, you are quite welcome. Happy to have helped!