that anti-virus in Safe Mode.
Otherwise, your best guess would be to go back to factory settings and start all over.
Kees
Iam having a Dell laptop inspiron series purchased in 2005. (I dont remember the exact serial no. of this make of laptop). OS is Windows XP. Since few months I am facing a problem. My registry editing and task manager has been disabled. whenever i press ctrl+alt+del, a message appears "Task manager has been disabled by your administrator'. Also 'registry editing has been disabled by administrator' appears when i type 'regedit' in 'Run' window. I searched for a solution to this in google and i tried all of them. However, nothing worked and the problem still exists. unfortunately I dont have a antivirus software installed on my laptop. I have downloaded latest version of Avast antivirus from internet and iam not able to install the same on my laptop. Even though I dont have a internet connection in my laptop, I think the virus might have come from pendrive.
I welcome suggestions on this issue and would be grateful if the issue is solved.

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