Subject pretty much says it all.

Issue happens frequently, where during automated scanning, the progress bar appears to be at 100% and the numerical count is on it's last item - here it will hang for several minutes, after which time Spybot closes (seemingly normally) and it's process disappears from task manager, yet the registry hives remain loaded as PE_%driveletter%_%hivename% and I must unload them manually via reg.exe or regedit.exe. Other times Spybot does not hang on the last detection item and the hives do unload properly.

I use the /autoupdate /autocheck /autofix /autoclose /allhives parameters on the command line.

To my knowledge there are no other applications running that may interfere or lock those loaded registry hives into use when the issue occurs, and I've made the effort to terminate or disable all background services/processes such as anti-virus applications that may interfere, but to no avail.

Is there anything I can do to fix the issue or to narrow down the circumstances of when the problem occurs?

Thx!