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I need to clean my xp registry-as someone on disability money is tight-is there free software on the web?
September 7, 2009
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Clean Registry and Optimize PC
regclean 4.1 is a good utility to automatically clean your registry. It is fairly simple and does clean well.
Biut it depends on your level of expertise to go beyond this. Registry is a tricky business if you do not understand what you are doing so be careful. It can crash your computer or improve you performance, eliminate unnecessary errors and junk everywhere in the system.
try here
http://www.download.com/3120-20_4-0.html?tg=dl-20&qt=regcleaner&tag=srch
also try advance windows care it is free just scroll down through the list
http://www.download.com/3101-2001_4-0-2.html?tag=nav_2
Do all this
Clean Up Computer
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Download and run superantispyware. I was put onto this program because of an annoying popup (XP)
http://www.superantispyware.com
Superantispyware is a good program and remember to update it before scanning. A scan may take 45mins.
afterwards clean up the registry with this
Clean up pc and IE
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To clean up run this Microsoft’s windows live program. It does registry, spyware , virus , disk clean up and defrag
it takes 2 hours or more so once it starts to scan (go to bed etc)
XP Users http://onecare.live.com/site/en-ca/defau…
Vista Users http://onecare.live.com/site/en-ca/cente…
Run the full scanner, then at the end of the scan it asks you to set it running full time.
Think twice about setting it to run in the background as it could be another thing to slow you down. However, it may be worth while if you have no other security programs running.
Consider the following options:
I personally run Norton 360 which is full internet security and run superantispyware when I want to.
So if you don’t have a decent internet security program then perhaps run the superantispyware with your antivirus in the background.
If you sick of antivirus programs that don’t work perhaps run onecare full time and run superantispyware whenever.
Now you should be flying and Onecare has even set up a new system restore point for you.
You could always do it yourself. Run regedit and just browse through and find the useless crap and delete it. For example, if at one point you had Microsoft Office on your computer, but now it’s uninstalled, there will be hundreds of entries that have to do with the program, just delete them.
try ccleaner
(stands for Crap Cleaner)
http://www.ccleaner.com
If you really need to do use this. Free from Microsoft. Click on Tune-up Scan.
http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/center/tuneup.htm