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Hi! Sorry for not replying. I've been away. Haven't had chance to try the registry thing. I will try it as soon as I get home. Just one question - how do you open regedit? Is it a program I need to download? I didn't want to appear ungrateful for all your help. Thanks a lot!

Thanks very much. I have to go to sleep now so I'll try it tomorrow. It's 5am in the UK! Just one last question before I try this. Should a bumbling fool like me be messing around with the registry? Whenever I've talked to friends who know a bit about computers they've always warned me to NEVER EVER change stuff in the registry because all hell will follow. I'm scared!

No, I don't. I feel like a dunce. I have home edition.....I think.

Aha! The plot thickens! I don't have a Start_ShowRun.

Hello people! Thanks very much for all the responses. I wasn't expecting it at all! I have run a scan with avast! and it didn't find anything. I've also run Ad-aware and spysweeper. They both found stuff which I deleted but it didn't bring run back. I do have another account on this computer. When I installed XP I thought I'd create 2 accounts just for the hell of it. No one else has ever used them and I never use the second one myself. I just switched users now and had a look at the second one and it does have a fully working run on the start menu. I suppose I could transfer everything on my first account to my second. Does anyone know how to do that? AnGra - I don't know what to do with that registry value or how to create or run a .bat file. I'm a bit slow with computers.

Hello again. It doesn't work with classic menu either Whiteshark. When I press WIN and R a little box comes up saying"This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator". As far as I know, I am the system administrator because no one else uses this computer.

Hi hazelnut. No. It's not. Under Printers and faxes there is "Scroll programs", "search" and "set program access and defaults". I dunno what's going on really.

Hi. Thanks for your help but when I go to the advanced tab there is no "run command" option to check.

Howdy all. I'm not very good with computers and was wondering whether somebody could help me out. I've been using CC cleaner for a year or two now. Some time ago, the "run" on my start menu disappeared. I had no idea why and after asking a few people for help (to no avail) I gave it up as a lost cause. I just ran CC cleaner now and realised that there's an option to remove the Run on the start menu so that's what I must have done. I can't find an option to get it back though. I'm pretty sure that someone will suggest reloading the backed up registry. I have a few questions problems relating to this. Firstly, I don't know when I lost my "run" on the start menu. I have a lot of registry back ups and it could take ages to find the right one. Secondly, I don't know how to use the registry back ups. Thirdly, would reloading the old registry back ups bring back all the issues and all the rubbish that CC cleaner has deleted for me? Is there a simpler way to get my "Run" back? Finally, I'd like to know exactly why CC cleaner deletes the "run" on the start menu? Does it cause a problem or something? Thanks very much for your help! I'm running XP, btw.