regedit is not opening

whenever i try to open regedit, it gives following error message "This
program has performed an illegal operation & will be terminated, quit all
proagrams & restart windows.The program tried to execute an invalid
instruction"
However
even afer restarting the windows, problem is still there.What should i do?

If there is a details button on the error message, click it and post that
message here verbatim (registers not required).

In any case, I would do a complete scan of the drive with an up to date anti
virus program followed by a malware hunt with updated versions of:

AdAwa http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

CWShredder: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html (download
link near the bottom)

Spybot: http://www.safer-networking.org/

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Regards


Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo



"bko_flower191" wrote in message
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whenever i try to open regedit, it gives following error message "This
program has performed an illegal operation & will be terminated, quit all
proagrams & restart windows.The program tried to execute an invalid
instruction"
However
even afer restarting the windows, problem is still there.What should i do?

Try using sfc to extract a fresh copy of "regedit.exe" from your Windows =
98
CD to the "C:\Windows" folder.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q129...22120121120120

Ben

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