Limewire has taken over my system,I tried to remove it?

Question

There are no immediate visible signs of the program,but
Now I cannot open task manager at all

I try to run regedit, but it displays that
"it is being used by another program"?
Can SpyBot be using it?

Are there registry keys that change this behavior?
Thank You

Answer 1

You don't actually need to mess with the registry.
just use the following:

A better alternative to Task Manager:
http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/ProcessExplorer.zip

If you can't use the options provided by limewire to remove it from starting with your computer:
http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/Autoruns.zip



these programs are handy and easy to use. ^_^

Answer 2

You have complete confusion going on here. First you say that Limewire has taken over your system. Since that isn't possible you must find something else wrong. So, now you can't open Task Manager by pressing CTRL-ALT-DELETE. right? Well, that's not the fault of Limewire, either. So then you tried to run regedit, and it's being used by another program. You think that's SpyBot? SpyBot doesn't have a thing to do with your registry. The bottom line is, you've got something going on and you haven't the foggiest idea what it is. About the only thing you didn't blame was your operating system, and you didn't say what that was.

You could easily have spyware. So, have you immunized your computer in SpyBot? Have you run a full bot check to see what, if anything it could find? You should do that first, and if it finds something, remove it.

And what were you going to do in regedit? Since you don't know what's wrong, what would you remove to fix it? You can safely clean the registry using Microsoft's Live OneCare Cleanup Scan, which eliminates the temptation for untrained persons to fiddle around in the registry.
http://onecare.live.com/site/en-US/center/cleanup.htm

If you have windows XP, you should run a Disk Cleanup, and remove all the junk that's sitting around in temporary files. Click on Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools and Disk Cleanup. Remove everything it finds.

And finally, if that doesn't fix your problem, be prepared to reload Windows, assuming you have a legal Windows CD.

Answer 3

First,go to start then go on the left side it has a magnify glass it says search click on it and once you get there it says what do you want to search for click the first one and then it has a blank space for you to type in type limewire ten it will bring you to all your limewire files to delete them right click and press delete and it will go to the recycle bin and right click and press delete snd your files are gone