URGENT: Registry Editor starts with Windows - Why?

If you run msconfig and look under the startup tab,is there anything listed that could be launching regedit?

I don't see anything that says regedit. Here's what the Startup Tab shows:

ScanRegistry   c:\windows\system\scanregw.exe /autorun
TaskMonitor    c:\windows\taskmon.exe
SystemTray     systray.exe

I would disable them one at a time and see if this resolves the problem.

Also check for a wininit.* file anywhere on your machine.

Also if this is new,

 You may try doing a scanreg /fix from a DOS prompt.
Scanreg /opt  also.


You may try doing a scanreg /restore from a DOS prompt
and select a registry date from before the problem started.

I hope this helps !

Look in the registry at:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
File c:\windows\win.ini
  section   run=....
File c:\winstart.bat

Hope this helps.

Continued....

LoadPowerProfile   Rundll32.exe powerprof.dll,LoadCurrentPwrScheme
ConfigSafe         c:\csafe\autochk.exe  <- This is an IBM program
AEZBProc           c:\ibmtools\aptezbtn\aptezbtn.exe
StillImageMonitor  c:\windows\system\stimon.exe
bpcpost.exe        c:\windows\system\bpcpost.exe
EM_EXEC            c:\progra~1\logitech\mousew~1\system\EM_EXEC.exe
Request            c:\windows\options\cabs\request.exe
CriticalUpdate     c:\windows\system\wucrtupd.exe -startup
NAV Agent          c:\progra~1\Norton~1\Norton~2\Navapw32.exe
NProtect           c:\program files\Norton Systemworks\Norton Utilities\Nprotect.exe
LoadPowerProfile   Rundll32.exe powerprof.dll,LoadCurrentPwrScheme
SchedulingAgent    mstask.exe
ScriptBlocking     "C:\program files\common files\symantec shared\Script blocking\sbserv.exe" -reg
CSINJECT.EXE       c:\program files\norton systemworks\norton cleansweep\CSINJECT.EXE
NPROTECT           c:\program files\norton systemworks\norton utilities\NPROTECT.EXE
SymTray - Norton SystemWorks c:\program files\common files\symantec shared\symtray.exe "Norton SystemWorks"
Webshots           c:\progra~1\webshots\websho~1.exe
Lotus Smartcenter  c:\lotus\smartctr\smartctr.exe
CleanSweep SmartSweep-Internet Sweep C:\progra~1\norton~1\norton~3\csinsm32.exe

This line that you quoted above looks suspicious to me:

ScriptBlocking     "C:\program files\common files\symantec shared\Script blocking\sbserv.exe" -reg

That is part of Norton AntiVirus. Some virus' are vbs scripts and that blocks them from doing any damage.

what is this one
Request            c:\windows\options\cabs\request.exe

go to start --> run and type msinfo32
go to software environment, startup and see where it is being loaded from

It is loaded from Registry (Machine Run)

Removed the REQUEST line and it rebooted without bringing up RegEdit.

Thanks everyone for your help.

bhlang Glad we could help
That request line looked suspicious to me, I've never seen it before, and know it isn't a normal startup item

But, you haven't answered the implied question: "Why was it there -- what put it there"?

I don't know what put it there, and frankly I don't care. I don't pretend to know, every piece of software on the planet, and what they all install or not. I do know that request.exe is not a normal startup item, and suspected it was where regedit was being loaded from. My goal here was to stop regedit from being loaded on startup, and we accomplished this. If I chased down every implied question here, I would not have time to do anything else

Listening

Seems the question was answered as requested.

Computer101
E-E Moderator