Hi I have been away for 2 months and upon arrival i found my computer not working. When i power it up it doesn´t load any of the programs that were supposed to be loaded on start up and 2 message boxes pop up from Unlocker 1.6.1 saying "No locking handle found". I can see the icons of the programs on the desktop but without images. Any program(uninstal, virus scanner, etc.) i try to start pops up the same massage including regedit or the "Add or Remove programs". Tried everything with "Safe mode" but it doesn´t change a thing. Can anybody please help in this matter as i have some very important stuff on there? Thank you in advance. Bernard

Slave it to another HD/comp ( no need to bolt it in, just cable it & leave it outside the case ) & copy your stuff onto the other HD or other media. You may have a choice of jumper settings on the master HD, such as master with slave or ms. Manually Uninstalling a Program http://surecool.net/manuninst.htm Demystifying the Windows Registry http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/for... Don't Fear the Registry http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/658 RegSeeker http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm RegSeeker is a perfect companion for your Windows registry! RegSeeker includes a powerful registry cleaner and can display various informations like your startup entries, several histories (even index.dat files), installed applications and much more! With RegSeeker you can search for any item inside your registry, export/delete the results, open them in the registry. RegSeeker also includes a tweaks panel to optimize your OS! RegSeeker is FREE for personal use only! 95/98/NT4/ME/2000/XP/2003 My personal use, is to, delete only the Green entries. Click on Select All and choose > Select all Green items. Right click on a Green item to delete all Green files. RegSeeker is also very good for registry searching, click on > Find in registry, tick all the boxes in > Keys, put a word ( example AOL ) in > Search for: & click > Search. Now you have a list on one page, of all the registry entries for AOL.