Hi, Just yesterday I found out that whenever I try to open msconfig or regedit the windows just pops up stays there for a couple of seconds and then disappears. I did to check for viruses/spywares using Norton Antivirus, Ad Aware and even tried Housecall. All them did not report any viruses. Even tried someone's suggestion about creating a new user and assigning admin rights to that user. Nothing worked. However I am able to open both msconfig and regedit in safe mode. I really do not want to reinstall the whole OS so any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Akshay.

Checked my background processes saw rpc.exe running. Once I killed the process both msconfig and regedit worked fine. However I am still not sure how to get rid of the virus. Also one of the processes running had the name mkdakkz.exe . Tried searching for it on google but nothing comes up. The process description says "Generic Host Process for Win32 Services". Any help on that would be appreciated. Thanks, Akshay.

well the first couple things you can do is make it so rpc.exe doesnt open on startup (and do the same for dkdakkz.exe if you know that it is a virus) is open regedit (which is now operable, right?) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE> SOFTWARE> Microsfot> Windows> CurrentVersion> Run in run, look on the right pane, these are all the programs that startup when the computer is turned on and logged into your account. you can delete the key that says "rpc.exe" way over on the right side data part and the location is more than likly in the c:\windows\system32\ folder where as you could look for the name (rpc.exe) and find it there.

Akshay...Go here,tweak 251 http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

its actually called a virus, i had a virus that did that too. you dont need any tweeks

sorry,in his question he said he checked for virus's and was clean..

the regedit and msconfig problems are apparently symptoms of the Spybot worm, but I haven't been able to fix it yet myself.