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28 Jul 2024 14:19:00 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Delete system32?  
From: clipka
Date: 21 Jan 2014 09:44:06
Message: <52de87b6@news.povray.org>
Am 21.01.2014 15:40, schrieb Francois Labreque:
> not quite, but...
>
> Ever since I tried to install the latest Blender, whenever I boot my PC,
> I get the system32 folder that opens.  I suppose there's a registry
> entry somewhere that got created improperly and instead of trying to
> load "C:\Windows\System32\whatchamacallit.dll" or
> "%SYSTEM_ROOT%\System32\foobar.exe" it simply loads "C:\Windows\System32".
>
> How do I find out which one it is?  Regedit's search function is not
> smart enough to let me search for ( "system32" except when it's
> "system32\" )

One - albeit somewhat time-consuming - solution might be to dump 
("export") the whole registry to a file, and then use your favorite text 
editor with regular expression find & replace do the job. Once you've 
located the culprit, you can go back to regedit for fixing it.


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