I received this error
"Windows- Low On Registry Space
The system has reached the maximum size allowed for the system part of the registry. Additional storage requests will be ignored."
and after a little research, tried uninstalling the nvidia card drivers and rebuilding the paging file. Worked for one reboot then it came back again.
Looking thru the registry at random, I thought I’d check the entries for avast! and found the each of the avast! services entries filled with the following (see attachment or below)*
*p.s. this is a small sample that was left after uninstalling avast; there was much much more than this before.
Reinstalling now and will perform a boot scan but thought this was very weird!
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[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\aswFsBlk\$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&']
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\aswFsBlk\$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'(]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\aswFsBlk\$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\aswFsBlk\$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\aswFsBlk\$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+,-./0123$%&'()*+]