Re: Regedit.exe

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From: Kelly (kelly_at_mvps.org)
Date: 06/06/04 

Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 03:07:26 -0500

John,

That is normal, leave it alone. You are really needing to know more before
deleting from the registry. 

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"John" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:18b7001c44b9b$d300de00$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>I ran regedit.exe and went to
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/MICROSOFT/WINDOWS/RUN to
> delete all the stuff that was there which could be
> viruses and trojans, however there is one item named:
> (Default), type: REG_SZ, data: (value not set) that
> doesn't delete.  My PC brings up a message that it is
> unable to delete specified values.  Is this supposed to
> be there or is this some sort of virus refusing to be
> deleted, and if it is a virus how do I get rid of it?
> I'm currently running Windows XP.
>
>                       Thanks in advance, John.

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