Alright so here's the plan. I managed to fix the Registry key by loading the Hive locally on my system. Since it's in an offline mode, it let me change it without trouble. Now, since the Software Hive is highly volatile, we need to repeat the process but while we are both online and do it as fast as we can. I'll test the process in one of my VM first to make sure I get it right, and then I'll post the instructions. May I ask you what timezone you are in (you can tell me what time it is actually and I'll guess it out), and also let me know around what time you'll be online tomorrow? It's currently 21:07 here, on the 17th.