KeithL

Can I just add a possibility to the things being tested, I have been working on a DCOM Configuration issue for one of my company applications and have found that "FlashUtil9f.EXE", which is the adobe flash update tool (I Believe) has been causing me some problems. On a windows 2000 box it would cause dcomcnfg to fail to process application GUIDS from the registry, Past the point of the flash programs own guid ({D4304BCF-B8E9-4B35-BEA0-DC5B522670C2}). The end result was that although my application WAS installed properly it would not display in dcomcnfg because of a registry rights permission configuration on the flash application, that cause dcomcnfg to stop processing further application details. In essence I wonder if the flash app is causing the same kind of barrier to the CCleaner program with ME. Now Windows XP doesn't fail in the same way, it happily skips past the Locked registry entry and because ME is of a similar "vintage" to Win2000 That's why I'm wondering if the issue is related. To be honest, my app is running on a business server so I just uninstalled flash and the problem went away, you could try this as a test to prove the point. To show this I used Procmon.exe from the sysinternals.com website. Please don't disregard it just because I am talking about Dcomcnfg, I'm using this as an example of a CLSID Guid scanning application that fails to completely process a list due to a locked registry entry I have seen this on every windows 2000 box that has this version of flash installed on it now but don't see any sign of aknowledgement on Adobe support forums. Hope this helps Keith