Hi all- Its GREAT to find a resource such as this.
I am having a series of problems- all of which I suspect are related to registry problems.
Symptoms are: slow performance- many tasks do not complete and performance moniter for some shows that there is 100 % cpu USAGE for as long as I let it go.That problem has abated somewhat.
My Tenebrill spycatcher/ghost surf continualy tell me it has encountered a error, though it doesn't say which one.
I attempted to uninstall it I got: Internal error- Failed to load Dll "shfolder.dll". I found a site to DOWNLOAD that file but clicking on the link produced no action.
My IE7 fails to show many parts of webpages, some PICTURES and some links. It won't load the data from my exchange web access page. I rolled it back to IE6 with no better results.
I tried to download firefox, but it won't display the download button  on mozilla.
When coming back to my computer in the morning, it always appears to have rebooted in the night and is displaying an error window titled "sendbatchmail" with runtime error 70- Permission denied.
I have no Idea what sendbatchmail is.
I downloaded cclean- a registry cleaner sucessfuly, but when trying to install it said it could not find the vb6 files it needed. I downloaded & installed them,
but cclean was still unable to find them.I sucessfully downloaded regscrubxp, but on install I get " Internal error S105".
clicking the windows restore button will either produce a blank window or no result at all. I performed a virus scan at trendmicro with clean results. Does anybody have any ideas as to what to do next?? I feel that this is a registry problem, but there must also be SOMETHING else going on to prevent the cleaner programs from installing.


I am running xp Professional 2002 with service pack 2  and automatic updates.

Thanks for any suggestions you can give.Sounds like a wipe and reinstall to me  
 
Alan <><  :-)Have you tried booting into Safe Mode and running your malware scans?

The first thing you may want to do is make sure your malware protection is updated before trying this.

Once your malware programs are updated, turn off System Restore and then reboot into Safe Mode.

Run a complete malware scan using the software resources you have available to you.

Once the scan(s) are complete, reboot your machine, normally, and turn System Restore back on.

Post your results, here, please...How much free space do you have on your hard drive?  How much RAM do you have?  What are your settings for Virtual Memory?