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Junk/trash characters stop access to desktop
Yesterday a technician from Symantec was helping to remove a virus from my
machine. He went into my registry to change some values. (I wanted to the
titles for all desktop files transparent).
Immediately afterward, a strange dialog box began to appear everytime I would boot my machine. The dialog box appeared right after the Windows XP splash screen. It is basically an all white box but with what looks like
"junk/trash" characters in it. Generally there are only three characters. The first character was a like a small rectangle standing on end followed by this: ?r. The title of the dialog box was this small rectangle and ?. I have to click OK on the dialog box and I am immediately taken to the desk top. The characters might change on each boot. Today the title was a string of trash characters including a Chinese character. Generally there are two or three and always some random, weird combination.
Any ideas as to what is causing this and how to fix it?