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SORRY! The product was actually called RegCure not RegClean! I think I was just so excited to have sorted the problem that I got the name wrong.

SORTED! Great news! I have managed to get it fixed. I downloaded a version of RegClean and ran a scan which detected hundreds of problems. I then decided to purchase it to fix the problems and it worked a treat! The PC is also a lot faster as well and IE6 works as it did before. Thanks to everyone who suggested different things to try and I will certainly recommend this site to anyone with problems. I read a report about RegClean before I bought it and the article said it was the best one the writer had tried. HOW RIGHT HE WAS! Thanks Again!

Kelly Thanks for this advice. I have looked at the article and have tried both Method 3 and Method 4. Unfortunately both of these ask me to insert my Service Pack CD. The only CDs I have are the original 2 Windows XP Media Center Edition CDs and both of these are rejected. I think that when XP MCE was initially installed Service Pack 2 was installed by downloading it from the Microsoft site. Seth I had another go at re-installing IE7 but when this is done and you try to run it, it loads up a window for a fraction of a second then it disappears. I have once again reverted to IE6 - at least this loads the home page but will not let you navigate to any other page. I think I am going round the twist with this whole issue!

Seth I had already reverted to IE6 and I have also deleted cookies, files and restored defaults under the Advanced tab. Still no improvement. I can still only load up the home page but when I try to select anything else from the Favorites it doesn't want to know. I am using Firefox for any other internet activity. What concerns me is that I may not be able to get any future Windows updates if Internet Explorer is useless.

maynardvdm Sorry for the delay but I've been away for a couple of days. I tried what you suggested and the scan did pick up 8 items which I quarantined then deleted. On rebooting, Internet Explorer is still reacting in the same way as I described in the last post. I did manage to run the ESETS virus scan but it picked up absolutely nothing. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

maynardvdm Thanks for this but I have been unable to follow all the instructions. I was able to do the ATF element but when I get to the bit about installing Malwarebytes I get an error trying to install it "unable to register DLL/OCX RegSrv32 failed with exit code 0x5. Also, my antivirus (Kaspersky 6.0) blocks the insatallation and if I ignore the errors I get a Run-time error '0' followed by '440' Automation Error. Finally, I cannot attempt to download the ESET free scan element as it requires Internet Explorer and this what is not working. I have reverted to Internet Explorer 6 and this will load up but only to whatever is listed as the Home Page (have tried several and they all load) but as soon as I try to navigate to any other page it won't do it. I have also tried deleting cookies, files etc and resetting to defaults all without success. Any other suggestions? Regards - tommyd

Hi - this is my first post. A week and a half ago my Internet Explore suddenly started acting strangely. I am running under Windows XP Media Centre Edition with Service Pack 2. I have never had a problem before but suddenly the PC was taking minutes to load up my Home Page (Virgin Media). I was using Version 6 Explorer. I upgraded to Version 7 but with the same result. I then uninstalled Version 7 but 6 was still reacting the same. I had my PC serviced by my supplier but even he was unable to get to the root of the problem. He re-installed Version 7 and now when I click on the icon the window flashes up for a fraction of a second then disappears. I am now accessing the internet using Firefox which was on my PC before my problems. The evening before this happened there was some activity on the PC using Microsoft FrontPage by my son and I did see something on the Microsoft site which gave some indication of certain problems using some FrontPage procedures. Can anyone throw some light on this problem? Thanks in anticipation.

Just joined the forum and hope that someone can help me with a particularly difficult problem!