Recently I downloaded a program on windows, and I think it installed a key-logger. I quickly went to Ubuntu, and deleted the program files from there.   I am quite sure that it is gone, but I must have deleted some file that is associated to the windows login (Which I don't know how, since I only deleted the the program's folder from the PrgramFilesx86 directory),because now when I login to windows, it says "loging in" then it flashes grey, then logs out.   I looked up answers to this question, and it seemed like you needed to edit the windows registry. I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to do this from ubuntu. I saw a post that said you needed to install , but their instructions on how to edit the actual registry did not work. I was wondering if anyone could help me fix my problem.
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My laptop is a Windows 7 / Ubuntu 12.04 LTS dual-boot setup. I've been experimenting with alternative desktop shells on my Windows partition, such as KDE and .  After setting Cairo as my default shell, I decided to restart my computer and log back into Windows just to make sure everything was working properly. However, after logging in, I found myself left with nothing but the mouse cursor and a blank desktop filled with the default background color.  I know the registry setting I need to change in order to restore Windows Explorer as the default shell from my prior experimentation with KDE, but I obviously can't use regedit if I can't load into a working desktop. However, I can still use my Ubuntu partition with no problems.  This has me wondering if there is a way I can mount my Windows partition in Ubuntu and somehow edit the registry from there. How would I go about doing this, and do I need any extra packages for it?
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Possible Duplicate:          According to many articles like , it says that windows is more vulnerable to virus. I recently installed wine on my Ubuntu to run some windows programs by sudo apt-get install wine It when I looked into the directory structure I got to know that the windows program regedit.exe has been installed along with other simple windows programs. As per my knowledge some of the windows viruses give network access to registry making windows vulnerable for attacks. I am worried that installing wine would make the system vulnerable. Is it so? Are there any solutions to this problem?
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After making an error installing windows, I now have two entries in the Windows 7 boot loader, one of which is incorrect.  How can I remove it? I've seen some entries recommending EasyBCD, but can't it be done easily without 3rd party software?
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I have only spent 5 months with Ubuntu and it has been an awesome experience, I hardly boot into Windows now, but there are some things I miss, like the  I used to have in Windows.   I use the program a lot when I boot into Windows but I'd prefer if there was an alternative or something similar cause the program had a plethora of renaming options with a decent gui.  I'm aware of the rename command in terminal, but I've never had any luck with it.  A screenshot of what it looks like:   Questions   Is there an alternative of this program for Ubuntu? A great command line resource on how to get this done without a gui?
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Update I was able to get Readiness Tool to run but not the update Now the reediness tool will not even run Security Essentials will run    I have legal Windows 7 to install Do you think that is safe bet to try?    Had some performance issue so I ran MalwareBytes and Security Essentials.     It found some malware that was successfully removed.    I was able to Update Security Essentials and I ran it again for safety and it found nothing additions.     The last successful Windows Update was 5 days ago     Checking for Updates has been running 6 hours CPU 100%  network 0%     Windows6.0-KB947821-v35-x86.mnu fails to install It is supposed to be a tool to address update problems   I fear the registry got hacked to prevent updates     What can I do?  I know Vista.  I got it free.
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I have a friend who wants to sell their computer, but obviously all personal information and software that it is on it needs to be removed before doing so.  Usually I would format and reinstall it, but I cannot easily get hold of the required XP DVDs and I'm not 100% sure the serial number is stuck on the case as usual so getting hold of it will probably require more effort than I'm prepared to spend.  So, what's the best and quickest way to remove and uninstall everything from the PC without reinstalling it?   Thanks.  EDITS: I'm looking to remove things like Internet History and all installed programs, too. I know how to remove the history and each individual program, but that could take hours.  The machine is not branded and therefore there is no website I can go to download recovery software. There is no recovery partition on the computer and I'm not aware of any recovery DVDs for it either. I can only assume it was installed from a retail copy, and therefore there is no way to recover it to factory settings.  It needs to have XP installed, not any distribution of Linux. Like most average people, the person getting the computer will not understand what to do with a computer that doesn't have Windows installed, and software like Office does not work on Linux either.  Buying another licence is not really an option either. She has just brought a laptop to replace the computer, so buying another licence for a computer that she's getting rid of doesn't really make sense.  Thanks for all the help so far!
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How do I remove the warning before deleting a shortcut in Windows?  Every time I want to delete a shortcut it warns me that I'm not actually deleting the program, just a shortcut.
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Okay, so I was trying to uninstall a program called Kodi. I ran the following commands in terminal:  sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get remove kodi* sudo apt-get purge kodi*   I was reading it on this site:   So, the next thing it says to do is this:  rm -r ~/.kodi/   After this, I'm not sure what the terminal output was, something about the command not being able to do that because of something.   Then, Ubuntu welcome pops up, just like when you first install it. I went to desktop, it was empty, all my files gone. I restarted the PC, only to come to realize that it's a fresh installation of Ubuntu.   Can someone explain what the heck is going on?
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It seems many people like using Process Monitor to see what changes are being made to the registry during a process.  So I downloaded it.    I want to see what changes are made in the registry by some config changes I'm making on my computer so I can write them into a vbs script to do them easily.  Can someone tell me how to drive Process Monitor to capture the info? In the Help I don't see how to do it.  I'm using Windows 7 home Premium 64 bit.
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I've set up an Ubuntu 14.04 Server (from an Ubuntu 12.04 Server) but today I wanted to look in the auth.log but this file is not used. It seems that ´syslog´ was deleted.  How does Ubuntu 14.04 log? I need this for a server.  Thank you.
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I accidentally installed some USB drivers to my Windows 7 system, they were the wrong ones and now my keyboard and mouse won't work. A system restore would get rid of them, but obviously I can't control my computer to make that happen.  Keyboard and mouse still work before windows has loaded, in the BIOS and boot system, so can I do anything from there? I've already tried booting into another OS, accessing my windows filesystem and deleting the Program Files entry, but it didnt work so they must go deeper than that. Or could i launch it from a remote machine? I've got some VNC server insalled so if i could get that running that could work.
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Long story short, I ended up deleting some of the files from C:\Windows\InfusedApps\ and C:\Program Files\WindowsApps.   Now I am hoping if there is a way to completely reinstall all the apps from the Windows ISO.  I know there is an option to "Reset your PC". But I want to avoid that and reinstall only the modern apps
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Which programs installed by default in Ubuntu are generally regarded as safe to uninstall?  I'm mostly thinking of things like social networking, E-mail, you know. Bonus stuff.
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After (hopefully) scrubbing viruses out of a Windows 7 installation (after deciding not to simply run over the laptop repeatedly with my car), I've got everything almost back to normal. The only lingering issue I have is that for my non-admin users, the ".exe" file extension doesn't work. That is, clicking on the various desktop application links results in a "How do you want to open this?" dialog.  I've been through the alleged registry fixing from "winhelponline" and that had absolutely no effect.  I've tried running "assoc" for the affected users, but it reports the .exe association to be "exefile" even though it persistently does not work.  Right-clicking on a desktop icon and then choosing "start" does successfully open an application, but that's clearly a terrible situation.  For my admin user, things seem to work fine.  What do I need to do to get things working?
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When deleting certain files from the Program Files directory using the Administrator account, I got the following pop-up:     How should I work around this? Why am I asked to require permission from "TrustedInstaller", despite using an Administrator's account?
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So I have a Windows 7 home machine with 2 user accounts.  One is a standard user account and one is an administrator account.  Now this is going to be put in the hands of a very low-tech user so I don't want them to be able to see the administrator account on logon, but they want to have a password to prevent someone else from using the machine.  My goal is that when the user turns on the computer, they are presented with their login.  After logging in to their non-administrator account, if something needs to be installed then the administrator account can be used through UAC.  I have tried creating the reg key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList and adding a dword of the account name and set it to 0.  It succeeded in hiding the account from th login screen.  As well as hiding it from UAC.  So it fails the second requirement, of being able to run things as administrator through UAC.  Also since I didn't set an administrator password (left it blank) it seems that I have completely locked myself out of the machine since runas doesn't accept blank passwords.  So I also cannot undo it, and have quite effectively bricked the install, prompting an OS reinstall.  This is Windows 7 Home, so there is no Users management console.
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First, I've tried  which is using gpedit.msc Second, I've tried  which is using SysWOW64\OneDriveSetup.exe to uninstall, and deleting of some left over registry keys.  I've rebooted.  And still every time I open explorer, I've got this big p.o.s. banner that makes me absolutely hate even using windows.    How do I get rid of this and OneDrive completely?