All .NET Apps are broken by NCOVER

After running NCover on a service. I stopped coverage forcfully. (apparently a big mistake)

Now no .NET Apps start properly on my machine. they take for ever to start, unless they are run inside VS. (even "Hello World" app)

A quick look in process explorer shows that ever single .net app is waiting on a mystery DLL C:\PROGRA~1\NCover\NC54f4~1.dll which after a little digging is NCover.Lib.x86.dll

Further proof is that upon renaming this DLL the problem goes away. Of course Ncover doesn't work any more though.

Can anyone solve this for me.

RE: All .NET Apps are broken by NCOVER

cleaning up the system environment settings and restarting the computer should fix the problem. Specifically, open regedit.exe and go to

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment

and delete the following registry keys

Cor_Enable_Profiling

Cor_Profiler

NCover_PID