Getting a very aggravating error everytime on boot up/signon. Gives an MSSvc error but not much more info. I cannot find any info on this. Have seen some discussion about a Stealth product, but I do not have that. Can anyone help - PLEASE???? Thanks

Are you sure no one has put a stealth program on it trying to hide files from you? If so try this and see if this is in your registry: Click Start, and then click Run. (The Run dialog box appears.) Type regedit Then click OK. (The Registry Editor opens.) Navigate to the key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run In the right pane, delete the value: "mssvc"="" Exit the Registry Editor.

Don't know if this is the case with You, but thsi is something i hdread on another site concerning MSSvc: Thank you for all the help though they did not solve my problem. I wish to share my experience here in solving this problem. I got the help from a guru from another forum. I could not share his name as the thread had been removed and I had forogtten. I thanked him profusely in that forum anyway. 1. When stealthdisk is installed, the following files are copied to the c:\windows\system folders: csguid.dll, MSSVC.EXE, Ridger.adr, sdbdc.exe 2. when stealthdisk runs, it creates another 2 files in the same foler: izteri.fex, typerg.fre 3. it also creates the following registry entries: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\T234GF HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion "PF_AccessData35" HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "SysPool" The last registry entry causes MSSVC.EXE, the root of stealthdisk to be loaded when windows starts. It listens to the activation hotkey. MSSVC.exe also masqurades as a windows system progam that did not show up in task manager list. It showed up only when viewed with showdll 5.0 with no version number & no vendor description. When you tried to terminate or delete it, it complained that it is being used by windows! Hence, the proper way to do a clean removal when all else failed: 1. delete these 5 files from c:\windows\system folder: csguid.dll, Ridger.adr, sdbdc.exe, izteri.fex, typerg.fre 2. run regedit.exe and remove the 3 registry entries stated above. 3. reboot your system. Now you can and must delete MSSVC.exe from c:\windows\system folder. You are done! I did check with reinstallation and uninstalling the stealthdisk 3.6 pro successfully. This technique really works!!! But be forewarned. I am not sure if this method will help you recover your hidden files and folders if you have. If you don't have anything hidden using this program yet this is the way to go.

Thanks Lestat. Unfortunately there is not an MSSvc in that registry folder. Only one item shows up, labeled "default". ????