Hold down the Windows key and press R. Type MSCONFIG and hit enter. Click the Startup tab. This will show the list of things Windows tries to start when you boot up. You can uncheck anything there but your antivirus program, but try to leave the hardware related things and only remove 2 or 3 things at a time until you find the culprit.
Be glad you were unable to edit the registry. You can easily cause yourself problems that're very difficult to diagnose doing that.
Good luck.
I have an Acer Aspire 5610 Laptop with Windows Vista Home Premium. Every time my computer boots up I get this error "Could not load Users\Kevin\LOCALS~1\Temp\1f71ffe60019e08e.exe "
So I found the problem by going to "Regedit" then onto "HKEY _CURRENT_USER" >"Software">"Microwsoft">"Win NT">Current Users>Windows>Load> C:\Users\Kevin\LOCALS~1\Temp\1f71ffe60019e08e.exe I tried deleting this value but all I get is
"Deleting certain registry values could cause system instability are you sure you want to permanently delete this value?"
I then click yes and get "Unable to delete all specified values"
What am I doing wrong? Thanks
Regardless, the fact remains that I have a registry entry pointing to an executable that no longer exists.

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