Hi Willow..yep turned off firewall same thing.
Hi Bob....I found some info that others have reported the same thing..
here. This is an old issue but still appears to be causing issues.
Could be because net framework? Quote from MS here:
Posted by Microsoft on 19/05/2008 at 2:40 PM
Thank you for reporting this issue. The root cause of this (RegistryKey.GetValue fails to properly handle non-null terminated string data) will be fixed for the next version of the .NET Framework.
MS supposed to have fixed this some time ago but others are still reporting this issue even in win7! Sigh!