Compaq presario 5000 desktop series my hard drive is 20GB SDRAM 128MB CPU intel Celeron 800MHz Bus speed 100MHz, windows 98 DC rom. HOW to speed it up windows 98. will Registry Cleaner work

Please introduce me a good utility for cleaning Windows registry..

Everytime I’m on-line, winfixer pops up and takes me hostage, unable to exit, it knocks me off-line.

I caught a virus on my laptop(thanks to my lil brother). I have a sony vaio with 2gb memory running windows xp media edition. I cleaned the registry(have done it once before with no problems to get rid of a virus). computer starts with blank screen and takes about 30 minutes to load icons. Cant click on icons or start any programs. Do i need to reinstall the OS or is there a way to fix this?

I’m looking at a friends laptop at the moment. It crashed, won’t boot, freezes at boot up and he lost all his files. I hooked his HDD up to my pc using an ide adapter and recovered the files no problem. My question is this though, having complete access to his windows folder, is there anyway of repairing the drive by configuring the files within it? is there any software out there that might scan for the problem maybe.

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Louise <><
It’s definitely the drive
It’s definitely the drive because I tried it out in another machine
ok so I formatted the drive, popped it back in the laptop and went to boot from cd drive which is first in boot sequence and I’m getting the error "ntldr is missing" .What now?