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Can someone please explain about the registry cleaners that keep popping up. What is it and why get it?
July 11, 2009
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Clean Registry and Optimize PC
The Windows Registry is a wholesale dumping ground for any application that wants to write to it. After long periods of usage it will bog you down as the registry tree grows more complex. You can verify this behavior by reinstalling the OS and noting how nice and speedy everything is. For a while.
Registry cleaners attempt to rectify an unwieldy registry by nuking any keys that are verifiably useless. There are many more keys that these cleaners can’t take the chance of killing because they may be still relevant. Registry cleaners provide a small measure of optimization, but nothing to waste your time with. I consider them as effective as disk defragmentation – the results are dubious, the time to take doing it is lengthy.
In both cases nothing beats a quick reformat of the drive and an OS reinstall. I do that about every 6 months out of general principle.
those pop up when excessive amounts of porn sites are looked at. they most likely contain trojan viruses
what do you mean popping up?
normally when an application download is popping up on your screen its a clear sign of an infection…
step one DO NOT CLICK ON THIS it will only further harm your computer.
now go get super antispyware (superantispyware.com) and run it, it should remove it… if it doesnt .. follow below directions STEP BY STEP !!!
get these free tools… adaware(lavasoft.com) spybot(safer-networking.org) HiJackThis(trend.com) winsockfix v1.2(majorgeeks.com) CCleaner (ccleaner.com)
install and run the adaware/spybot updater
disable restore
start-run-apps-accessories-sys… disk cleanup
reboot safe mode w/ networking (continually press f8 upon reboot)
Run adaware and spybot deleting anything they find.
Run Hijackthis (this shows all BHO’s on ur browser~very important)
Run CCleaner (Repair/delete anything it finds)
Run free online scan (trend.com bitdefender.com pandasoftware.com) remove any findings
Run winsockfix v1.2
reboot
enable restore
you might also try these commands in your run box
start run cmd ~
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /renew
netsh int ip reset
regsvr32 softpub.dll
netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt
netsh winsock reset catalog
netsh interface ip delete arpcache
please note ::: using mozilla firefox with the following addons noscript noflash adblock (95% reduction in spyware/malware)