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by titeo

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When windows starts up this message was displayed "Could not load "xxx" (xxx=some weird character, which I cannot recognize what that file name is) specified in the registry. Make sure the file exists on your computer or remove the reference to it in the registry".
I entered "msconfig" from Start/Run and unchecked that file name in the Start Up tab and then restart the computer but the message still came out and look like it was checked again in the StartUp tab if I started in Normal Mode. Anyone has a clue how to remove the reference to that file in the registry or is there any other way to get rid of it? Thanks a bunch.

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by michael jay

of the registry, and mayhaps you should be then click start, run and enter regedit, ok. This will open the windows registry, then drill down to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run

This location shows what will run when Windows starts. Delete the key with the name you do not want to run and this should clear your problem.

Note that messing with the windows registry can cause a world of trouble so please be careful.

by titeo

One of the members showed me this file xclean_micro and it worked. Thanks for your info.

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