Question : Illegal operation attempted on a registry key that has been marked for deletion

Illegal operation attempted on a registry key that has been marked for deletion

I have a pc running Vista Home Premium that keeps giving me this error when I try to run most programs. I can get around it by running as an administrator but is there a way of solving the problem permanently? There is only 1 account on the computer which I assume was an administrator account although I can't get into the Control Panel to check.

This machine has had a lot of infections on it and I am just running a few checks to see if they are all gone now (Combofix, Spybot, SuperAnitSpyware).

I guess it is a registry entry that has been changed but which one I don't yet know...

Answer : Illegal operation attempted on a registry key that has been marked for deletion

Success.. I uninstalled Norton 360 (not my computer or it wouldn't have been on there in the first place...) and now everything works fine again..

Norton is certainly one hell of a product...

dc