regedit won't open on my computer, how do I fix this?

[desbest]

Hello forum
Regedit won't open on my computer, how do I fix this?
Do I have a virus?

 

[strollin]

A little more info please. Do you get an error? What happens when you attempt to invoke regedit?

 

[desbest]

There is no error. Nothing happens. It doesn't appear in task manager.
Also Notepad2 won't open also.

 

[strollin]

Something must happen. When you open a command prompt and enter regedit, what happens? Are you saying the prompt returns without any message at all? I would expect, at a minimum, it would return a message saying something like "command not recognized".

Look in the C:\Windows folder. Is regedit.exe in there?

It might be possible that malware or a trojan horse got on your system and replaced regedit.exe with something bogus. Have you tried running a virus/malware scan?

 

[smirk24]

Are you the admin of the computer?

If you are the admin run command prompt as admin/with admin privileges once the admin cmd prompt and copy everything inside the quotes and paste it to the admin prompt

" REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableRegistryTools /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f "

If its successful you should see something that says successful or it will go to the line that was on the command prompt before you added the following in quotation marks .
If its something that is related to a policy then regedit should open after restarting your computer.

Before doing the following make a system restore point (i would say make a backup of your registry but yeah)

 

[desbest]

I tried to do a virus scan but it ended after one minute and said it was finished, so obviously a virus hacked into the antivirus, so I wiped out my computer and reinstalled windows and now it works.

 

[LPhoeliu]

Can you try to run it from the Run command.
Hold down the Start(Windows flag) key and press R. Type regedit into the window that shows up and hit enter.