My friend told me to scan my PC with a registry cleaner. I do not know much about computers so any help would be appreciated.

Windows Vista Problems?

I’ve had Vista Home Basic for about a year now, never had any problems with it been going great. But last week the electric went so my computer wasnt shut down properly. Since then had a few problems….

Firstly sometimes when I turn my computer it keeps asking if I want to start in Safe Mode, or some of the other options… Whats that about?

Secondly, when I do get logged in, my time and date keeps changing EVERYTIME!!! And to something stupid… My date at the moment is 1601 lol

Thirdly, also when I log on I get a load of pop ups from windows saying a load of my programs are not working properly….

And finally… Firefox, keeps playing up. Whenever I try to get onto sites I always visit… Hotmail, Facebook, etc etc, even this site. Keeps asking me to get a security certificate.

Can anybody please help me with any of these problems? I’m pulling my hair out here lol 🙁

P.S – I’ve ran all my virus protection, Registry cleaner etc etc, and tryed system restore but nothing seems to work. Really don’t want to have to do system recovery 🙁

Thanks in advance!

hi i would like to know if a registry cleaner is very useful and required and if so where can i get a free good one online?

am seeking a very good Freeware Registry Cleaner,can anyone recommend a good one? any help appreicated,thnks.

i have windows vista ultimate adn wehn i firsted installed it i did alot of tweaking to make it very fast, and it was. the shutdown, startup and running was really good. but it has been 2 weeks now that the startup has really slowed down. and this is the part where it is really slower that before:

http://www.techmixer.com/pic/2007/04/vista-default-boot-screen.jpg

i think this happened after i installed a game, but i uninstalled it again and it hasnt changed the speed of the startup, its still slow.

BTW I ALWAYS PERFORM DISK DEFRAGMENTER, REGISTRY DEFRAGMENTER, DISK CLEANER, REGISTRY CLEANER, AND VIRUS SCANNING. I HAVE ALSO DISABLED EVERYTHING FROM "MSCONFIG" EXCEPT FOR MY INTERNET SECURITY.

the shut down and running is still good, but its only the startup so why has my pc slowed down?? please help!!
oh yeah and i have also disabled many services that i dont need.