regedit.exe - Application Error. The application failed to initialize properly

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hi all.

I try to open/run/execute regedit.exe, under Windows XP Home SP2, with all the updates as of Sept 15 2006.
Wherever I move a copy of this file, when I try to run it I get the following error-window:

regedit.exe - Application Error
The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005). Click on OK to terminate the application.

If I change the name of the file to *.exe (for example regedit’.exe) it runs, also if I change the extension to .com, I get regedit.com which also runs OK.

I ran countless malware cleaning tools, and my systems comes clean. I ran sysfilecheck. I googled this problem, and I can’t find something quite like it. Whatever fix I found close to my problem, didn’t work for me.
My registry doesn’t have the nasty key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\RPCKDM] which causes Internet Explorer to bring the same error, (0xc0000005).

Any help would be much appreciated.

Where do you think I should also post this question, like to the avast team, other antivirus companies, microsoft etc?

Thank you,
Adrian

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Well posting this three times, eventually getting the right forum ‘General’ as it is unrelated to avast won’t help to resolve the problem. Lets see if anyone can help in the General forum topic http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=23589.0;topicseen.

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Thank you, DavidR, for your reply.

It seems to me the above problem is the work of some worm, and I was hoping avast would take it into consideration and eventually include it into its definitions.

Adrian

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If you didn’t go to the general forum, :slight_smile: please tell what other security software you use. :slight_smile: