
Originally Posted by
rilopes
Not working here ! There are some keys that you can't remove, even in Safe Mode.
What's funny is that this key (WOW6432NODE) didn't exist before. After making some update ( Vista 64-bit here ), it suddenly shows up !
Searching registry before ( with Registry Workshop ) took few minutes ( approx. 160.000 keys ), now there are 22 ( !?? ) instances of WOW6432NODE key and more than 1.000.000 keys in search. Crazy, isn't it ?
Hi Rilopes,
Welcome to the forum.
I had that problem with the multiple
WOW6432NODE key entries. Deleting
only the
second entry fixed the problem for me, and got rid of the other keys since they were subkeys of the second entry. I do not know why it would not let you delete the second one. All the keys for it have blank values. You can try to take ownership of that key first, then delete it. This tutorial will show you how. See method two step 3.
How to Take Ownership of a Item in Vista
If you still cannot get it to work, the free program
Wise Registry Cleaner has updated their program to work fine with this problem.
http://www.wisecleaner.com/download.html
Or, you can just uncheck the
Software scan option.
Hope this helps,
Shawn