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If like most people you have had either a virus or malware strike your machine
How do you get rid of a left over corrupted registry key, when all access is denied to you?
in regedit
(you must have administrator privileges):
1) go into hkey_current_user and create a key named emptykey
2) right click on this key and export it, select export hive
from the drop down list, then save it as emptyhive
3) goto the top of the key branch you wish to remove and highlight it
4) select import, then select hive from the drop down list
and find your emptyhive file, import over the bad key
and the key will get deleted
example:
HKEY_CLASS_ROOT\clsid\{abaddead-ca5e-f175-a55e-deadbeefbeefdead}
you would select the above bad key, then import your empty hive onto it there by removing all corrupted values and keys in and under it.
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Slingblade1170
