Thanks to your guide, i finally figured out how to remove a virus that has plagued my Windows 7 system for MONTHS. Oddly enough the virus was meant for XP and older Windows OS's (and by the way, prepare for a long story). Unfortunately me and my friend found this out the hard way when it wrote itself to a dvd-rw for a german project (and no, i wasn't really aware of what the virus was capable of or of the virus ITSELF) and wrote itself onto my friends laptop when he opened it (the disc wasn't working for some reason so he tried to check if it would work on his laptop). What happened next wasn't pretty. It basically gave him a pop-up, less than 30 seconds after log on to do whatever and then shut it down, whilst also preventing him from doing anything about it. He tried everything, but to no avail (by the way, the virus process is called msk.exe, located on the Windows OS partition in a folder called Mskcontract). He gave up and just decided to re-install windows and wipe the hard drive clean. Somehow it ended up on one of his flash-drives and he decided to keep it in a box, along with all his other flash drives. About a month later he put the flash-drive (forgot the virus was on it) on one of his computers at home, it and all the other ones there were running Windows ME and below. Summarized, what happened was that the virus crashed all of his servers and his entire network setup, and he lost over 200 gigs of pure data (he actually runs a business, so that explains a little bit. Oh, and we're both in high school, and he likes Windows ME alot). So yeah, that caused a lot of trouble there. It also happened to choose to infect my teachers laptop when i tried use the dvd-rw on her laptop before i tried it on my friends, and it messed up alot of the programs on her laptop and one of the administrators had to come in and "re-image" (reinstall Windows XP) her laptop. So yeah, the virus had varied and disastrous effects on Windows XP and older Windows OS's. Thankfully i didn't see what effect it would have on the Vista OS since i learned to stop it from ever writing itself again by just closing the 2 msk.exe's and the 2 Windows Explorer processes that opened up after i logged in (and these would re-open when the system woke up from Sleep/Hibernation). Over time i learned that it did have a start-up entry and where it was located on the hard drive. Unfortunately, it would replace itself whenever i deleted the file and restarted the system and would re-enable the startup entry whenever it was disabled as soon i took my eyes off of it. For some reason, the only thing it did my windows 7 that was a nuisance was that it would write itself to discs, flash-drives, and partitions and make them appear as network folders that would give you the virus when you opened them with the first option when Autoplay or whatever opened (whenever the msk.exe process was running). Thanks to you however, i finally realized that the start-up entry would show the location of the registry key and therefore i could finally delete the source file, along with its means of revival. So yeah, i deleted the source file, disabled the start-up entry, and deleted the registry key, and once i restarted the system i found that msk.exe was not present on my system whatsoever except for the start-up entry,which had an Unknown author and non-existent location (checked the location and the registry entry wasn't there) so thats probably glitched. But anyway, msk.exe didn't run at startup and it wasn't on my hard drive anymore.
So yeah, thanks for making me finally realize how easily i could have fixed this months ago and for making me realize how epically i failed :D
And by the way, im running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit on an HP G60-519WM, which i got for Christmas and was bought last November on a Black Friday sale at Walmart ^^.