Registry Problems

[Jim Isbell]

This is not on the subject of older systems, but I have a problem that I 
hope someone can direct me to a list that covers it.

I have four "programs" that are sitting in the Registry of my XP system 
and could be causing some problems for me with popups.  How do I get 
into the registry to delete these files?  Windows explorer does not 
display any system files or directories and the "find": function cannot 
find the files even though it is set to search hidden and system 
directories but I know they are there because they were found by 
SpyHunter and are labeled as dangerous.