hi i have had a similar problem recently

symptoms: limewire pops up repeatedly, ctr-alt-del doesn't work, regedit.exe wouldn't start from run prompt in start menu.

here's what i found:

I found this line "C:\Program Files\outlook\outlook.exe" in my hi-jack this log.

It looks ok at first, but what this means is that you have outlook (i.e. your e-mail program) running. This would normally be fine BUT I DIDN'T HAVE OUTLOOK RUNNING!!

I spent hours looking at this but all i really took in the end was

1) Make sure you are not running the real version of Outlook (to avoid confusion later)

2) Open windows task manager by opening it in C:\windows\system32\taskmgr.exe (the one with the nice icon!)
It has to be done like this as ctr-alt-del doesn't work.

3) once it has opened click processes, click on outlook.exe, then click end-process

4) Now program is not running you can look at "C:\Program Files\outlook\outlook.exe" and simply rename it
to something like "outlook.ex" (which is not possible while it was running)

note: i also had some other programs running at around the same time of the problem. One called setup.exe (i altered registry to stop that loading at startup) and updater.exe which kept loading itself (again i changed registry to stop that) but my point is i don't think they were related to the limewire popup problem because the limewire problem kept happening right up until i followed the steps above.


I hope this helps and saves you time, Mark (the_wanderer)

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