Help with intsall/uninstall, and boot up

Hi

I recently had a virus and have got that cleaned up thanks to the folks on the major geeks malware cleanup forum. COming out of that however, I 've had a couple of issues, first a couple of programs have been compromised, like adobe reader and I can't uninstall it , or manage to get a new version installed. I get the same error message each time both trying to install or uninstall: Error 1402 "Could not open key" Hkey_local_machine_ software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run\optionalcomponents\MSFS and then "ensure you have sufficient rights...



Any idea how I get by this and get adobe back?

Also, when I"m rebooting ( this started during the virus grief) it gives me two options, regular and a tuneup ( cleanup utility my son had on here) backup. The regular boot just loops and neverstarts, the tuneup backup loads fine and windows starts. Although this is not critical, I would like to get the tuneup backup to be the regular startup if you get my drift, any idea what I need to do to get that fixed up?


Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

 

Don't know if you've seen this, but there's a Knowledge Base article concerning the Error 1402 at Adobe.com:

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/329/329137.html

 

Use the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility to remove the corrupted Adobe Reader installation, then install afresh.

P.S. you can download the installer without unwanted bundled software from http://get.adobe.com/reader/enterprise/