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You may be right concerning CC not being the culprit here, but I remain skeptical. Again, it's one thing to select-out files for deletion that are actually critical system files, if they can be restored at some later time. It's quite another thing, to not allow those files to be re-entered to the registry at any point! I've run two online virus scanners, and found 0 infections...re spyware...a few non-critical tracking cookies. In any case, I'm submitting these results to the hijackthis help moderators. Thanks for your time and assistance...

Hi davey, The only real-time scanners that I've run concurrently are Avast and Spywareblaster, but I've never had compatibility issues with these two while running prior versions of Windows. What is the most disconcerting here, is the failure to restore registry files that were selected for deletion by CC. The fact they were inappropriately targeted for deletion is cause for concern, but finding that they could not be returned to the registry is entirely unacceptable. I would be extremely hesitant to run the CC registry cleaner again after this experience. You think an HijackThis analysis will actually prove helpful at this point?

A FINAL NOTE: After extensive efforts in troubleshooting, I'm forced to conclude that at least this incarnation of CC does not like Vista, and I'm not sure I do either. I've used CC for years, with no adverse effects. Shoot, it even ran well on MILLENIUM...now, there's a testimonial! Today, Firefox was corrupted...tool-bars missing, bookmarks gone, window truncated, etc. System restore was no help, in either regular, safe, or recovery modes. As a last ditch effort, I tried a complete PC restore, but it wouldn't execute because it couldn't find my back-up files that I wrote earlier to the D-disk[a secondary internal hard drive]. I'm now looking at my second clean install for the month, with no available recovery of data. AARRRRGGGGGG Happy trails to all!

Thanks for the reply. Yes...cc reg backups...all possible permutations on restore...no luck...maybe if I'm wielding a whip and a chair...seriously, if you have anything else, I'm all ears...

Hi JD...'Appreciate the reply. The order of restoration appears to be irrelevant for this particular problem. The safe-mode restore was ineffective, with the same error message. If this isn't bad enough, Windows system restore was not successful, even in safe-mode, due to an "unspecified error"! I guess the next step is a system repair. I'm rather dreading it, but It surely beats a clean re-install. I'm definitely grasping at straws here...any further ideas?

The vista system has started acting a bit squirrelly lately, so I began my troubleshooting by restoring registry file deletions. The last four out of seven backups failed to restore to the system registry. "Cannot import file____. Not all data was successfully written to the registry. Some keys are open by the program or other processes." All browser windows were closed, but various security apps were running in the background, could that have been the problem? If not, can I restore these files from Windows safe mode? TIA...Aces