are there any safe registry cleaner that a newbie can do without messing up necerssary files or things they w?

September 2, 2009

that will not delete necessary files, passcodes and good things but get rid of bad if you dont know much about computer. I need a free and safe one
I have windows xp, a dell computer, commodo, esquared, yahoo antispy.

My computer freezes up to hundreds of times a day, crashes and is real slow.

I tried deleting big files, scans,. defrag, disk clean up and scanned and did recovery of disk errors.

None of that helped. I put off registry cause I heard if you aren’t computer proficient you can mess up your computer. Is this true and any safe for newbies free registry cleaners or what else might help with these problems..using the computers has become frustrating with all these freezes.

will registry cleaners fix computer errors?

August 30, 2009

Everytime I type words like "fix computer errors" on the searh bar here on yahoo answers I always see websites on the right side of yahoo answers saying something like fix computer errors, and when I click them they are registry fixers or cleaners.

What should I do about this computer virus?

August 28, 2009

I think I have contracted a virus. I am having browser issues. When I try to click on a link from Gmail, Google Reader, Google search, Yahoo search, or a variety of other websites, the browser opens a different, spammy-looking shopping website. It won’t open the right link. I have to copy and paste the address into the address bar to get the page to open. And sometimes that doesn’t work. I suspected that I got a virus, so I Googled "virus removal software." Not a single website that contains virus removal software will open. I get the same error message "Page cannot be displayed" for every anti-virus site I try to visit. This makes me think it is a virus.

Here is something that further complicates the issue. I was thinking that if I can’t download virus removal software, I could purchase some and install it on the computer. But then I remembered that our CD drive isn’t working for some reason. Aaargh! What should I do?

I called the Geek Squad and was told that they recommend an agent come to my house and run a diagnostic on the computer to target the problem. I don’t really want to spend 0 for a guy to come out and tell me I have a virus. I am pretty sure that’s the problem. I don’t have a problem paying to have the virus removed, but how can I do that without paying someone to diagnose it? Any suggestions?

Details: It’s an HP Pavilion laptop that uses Vista.

yahoo search gone bad?

August 25, 2009

Whats up with yahoo search ? Everytime I enter anything into the web search box it comes back with internet explorer cant display the web page. Does the same thing with firefox.Ive tried everything I can think of checking firewalls , malware , virus, cleaning out my temp internet files and registry cleaner. Google still works fine. Any one else having this problem?

How do I clean up my computer? It is running slow and I have to X out pop-up before even logging into email?

August 15, 2009

I have pop-up blocker that shows it is enabled, but I still get pop-ups every time I log. Also, my home page is set to Yahoo but it has been resetting itself to a "messenger site." I have to reset each time back to yahoo on a daily basis. What is this and what do I do?