Hi,

I have been a Spybot user for many years.

Lately I have been having a issue on my Windows 7 laptop and Spybot 1.6.2 (latest).

When I try to start a scan I get something like this in the title bar: "Unloading User Registry Hives". Spybot freezes and will not let me scan. I've left it like this for 30 mins and nothing...

I formatted and reinstalled Windows 7, even on a clean installation the same issue is there...

It does this in Safe mode too. I've disabled AVG and even uninstalled it but it's made no difference.

All the previous versions have worked fine without issue.

Nothing harmful etc is running in the background.

Please help me out.

Thank you.

Best regards,

Laurence