msconfig and regedit not working...

First of all, sorry if this is the wrong section but i
wasn't sure where exactley to ask this.

Anyway, I noticed yesterday that whenever I go to
start>run and then run msconfig or regedit they open up,
but close themselves automatically after like..2 seconds.
So basically i dont have access to them. Now today I
tried running netstat, but that does the same thing. It
opens up and closes again after about 2 seconds.

This is relaly annoying, and it's sort of worrying me.
ANy ideas??

Vincent wrote:

> First of all, sorry if this is the wrong section but i
> wasn't sure where exactley to ask this.
>
> Anyway, I noticed yesterday that whenever I go to
> start>run and then run msconfig or regedit they open up,
> but close themselves automatically after like..2 seconds.
> So basically i dont have access to them. Now today I
> tried running netstat, but that does the same thing. It
> opens up and closes again after about 2 seconds.
>
> This is relaly annoying, and it's sort of worrying me.
> ANy ideas??

It's time for a repair job.

http://kadaitcha.ath.cx/xp_how_to.aspx#h
"How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade (Reinstallation)"

or...

http://kadaitcha.ath.cx/articles/corruption.aspx

Specifically, "Recovery Console and System File Checker"

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Hi,

Run a full system scan with an up-to-date antivirus program lately?

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"Vincent" <iamyour_messiah@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:057e01c346de$1d1a4210$a001280a@phx.gbl...

> First of all, sorry if this is the wrong section but i
> wasn't sure where exactley to ask this.
>
> Anyway, I noticed yesterday that whenever I go to
> start>run and then run msconfig or regedit they open up,
> but close themselves automatically after like..2 seconds.
> So basically i dont have access to them. Now today I
> tried running netstat, but that does the same thing. It
> opens up and closes again after about 2 seconds.
>
> This is relaly annoying, and it's sort of worrying me.
> ANy ideas??