[Vertigo1]

Actually, I would advise against running "WinDoctor".  Last time I ran it (granted, this was with the 2000 version of Systemworks) it screwed up windows so that I couldn't run any shareware programs legitly.  (even if I downloaded and installed a shareware program after running windoctor)

Either run scanreg /repair or just boot to safe mode, backup your data, and re-install windows ontop of itself.  You may have to re-install a few programs but that should cure your registry woes.

[Fineus]

Might be MSN Messanger then - I did just install the latest edition of it.. perhaps scrubbing all records of that might be a good start - since scanreg, TweakUI etc... haven't seemed to have worked.

[Bobboau]

hey I've got a problem with my registry, I did something to it and now I no longer have the start menu search thingy "find files or folders", anyone know how to fix that?

[Fineus]

TweakUI + Repair Registry? I mean the function must still exist, it just needs to rebuild the display reference....

...I think

[Vertigo1]

There is an option to repair RegEdit, but not the registry itself.  Just boot into safe mode, goto your DOS (command) prompt and type 'scanreg /repair' and see if it fixes your problem.

One question, how hot is your chip running now?  Have you started to overclock your processor?  (I'm asking because this is one of the usual indicators that you've pushed your chip too far.  Most of the time its just a BSOD on starting windows, or instability in general.)