  Hi The Repair option may not fix your problem, heres what you can do though 1) Go to 'msconfig' and under the startup tab, put a check mark next to Quickset and restart your system. 2) If you do not find quickset in the startup list then use the following screen shot and add Quickset to the registry. Its the same location as you mentioned. [IMAGE]    This will add quickset back to the startup. :) Cheers - Telson. 
I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 with 2GB of RAM and Windows Vista Home Premium with SP2. The system came with the Quickset program installed and originally it worked. In Dec. 2010, I found a virus on the system. During the cleaning process, the command to automatically run the QuickSet program got removed from the HKLM>Software>Microsoft>Windows>CurrentVersion>Run key in the registry. The program is still on the system. It is listed in Add/Remove Programs. And if I go to C:/ProgramFiles/Dell/Quickset, the QuickSet.exe file is there. The hotkeys at the top of the keypad still do what they are supposed to do, ie;, if you press the Sound Mute key, the sound is muted, but the little graphic that used to come up on the screen doesn't come up anymore. I can manually run the EXE file and the graphics come back, but the wife doesn't want to have to do that since they used to work automatically. I believe if I go to HKLM>Software>Microsoft>Windows>CurrentVersion, highlight the Run key and create a new String Value called QuickSet and put C:/ProgramFiles/Dell/Quickset/Quickset.exe in the value Data box and save it, the command to start QuickSet would be restored. I, of course would back up the Run key first. But there may be another option, thus the dilemma.  If I go to Control Panel/Add/Remove programs and highlight theQuickSet program, there is a repair option.  I am asking if I should use the repair option in Add/Remove Programs or just add the command to run the program directly into the HKLM>Software>Microsoft>Windows>CurrentVersion>Run key? Thanks for any help godawgs
QuickSet at start Up