Sateros

Same thing happened to me. I suspected Spybot S&D and AVG AntiVirus 2013 first, but that's not the case. After every CCleaner check, "Protection Enabled" for Firefox was disabled. Now thanks to hazelnut the problem was cleared. Unchecking CCleaner's "Site Preferences" of Firefox does work! Thank you.

Unlocker did the perfect job, thanks nodles and kroozer. I thought it could not find the files, but it did that miraculously. Thanks to all folks who helped. http://dl.dropbox.co...nHunter_001.jpg

I tried "del LUCKY" and "del Pregnant" (no quotes) at "C:\Documents and Settings\Sateros\Desktop" (no quotes ) and it says Could not find it.

I tried to drag it into a folder, and also to rename it for the first time. And I tried Safemode to have full control over the files, but there were no security tab.

Of course I did Safemode and also EMCO MoveOnBoot. MoveOnBoot says "it may not exist", apparently it could not find them because of zero size. But I try Safemode scan which I didn't.

On my desktop, I have three "ghost files" which cannot be removed. I downloaded .torrent files and they were there among normal torrents. They came as a set of two with exactly the same name (which is strange!) with the size of 10 KB ~ 20 KB and they are easily removed. You can right-click on the "ghost files" to show properties , but unable to rename or delete because of zero size. I tried everything from CCleaner to AVG and no idea what to do. 1. They came in a set of two. 2. The ghost files.

That worked fine. I missed Revo Uninstaller for removing Winamp, I used Windows "add and remove of programs" this time ( not Winamp's ). Thanks, both of you for helping.

I could not choose admin account, as that was password protected.

You mean right click on the folder at start-up? Then I can choose administrator, but that is password protected.

I noticed there were registry keys which regenerate on boot up, as I used Eusing Registry Cleaner, this must be the same case. Sorry, I could not find administrator right as I right-clicked the CCleaner shortcut and there was no administrator right in the drop down. And could you explain more about autoruns?

Is that true? I already tried may be more than twenty times. But if it's true, I would continue.

I uninstalled Winamp 5.62 and used CCleaner for removing left-over registry keys. But once restarting Computer, all removed keys come back. How can I completely remove them? They are HKCU \Software \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Explorer \FileExts.aac \OpenWitProgids HKCU \Software \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Explorer \FileExts.aif \OpenWitProgids HKCU \Software \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Explorer \FileExts.aiff \OpenWitProgids ...... 21 keys in all.

Total Uninstall sounds nice to me. And as there may not be ways to eradicate them, better get along, it seems.

That's right and that may have happened because I updated from AVG9 to AVG10 without manually uninstalling the former. BTW, I've tried a few registry cleaning software but it seems none of them cleaned up leftover keys completely.

Really? Then we need to manually delete those leftovers as most applications may not remove keys completely when uninstalled. Are there any effective ways to find unnecessary registry keys?