Midlife......

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Just a quick question....

I've had a couple of blue screen crashes today on my usually pretty stable HP pavillion laptop running windows Vista, running firefox and AOL

Running a couple of other programs has thrown up a little windows box saying that there was a problem writing to the registry and I should use REGEIT.......I press continue and all seems Ok.

Started yesterday when I removed Norton Antivirus LOL

Are these free registry cleaner programs any good ??

Cheers


Shaun

bioforger

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lol norton apps have alot to answer for eh.

The only one that has an excellent rep and actually does the job properly is CCleaner. Give it a whirl.

CCleaner - Home

Midlife......

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thanks for that

I've not had a blue screen crash since I got rid of the free NOD 32 trial version I installed to replace Norton .............maybe it was NOD 32 ??

Shaun

HankScorpio

+1 on CCleaner.

I've got nod32 on three pc's no probs to date.

Midlife......

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Just used cc cleaner,,,,,,197 problems LOL

looked on Amazon for genuine NOD 32 but only kaspersky....

Shaun

WRXewl

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Avast as the antivirus
CCleaner for the registry
Spybot for the rest

With those 3 not much will get past

HankScorpio

You can get nod direct from Eset at reasonable price

ESET - Antivirus Software with Spyware and Malware Protection

Give the latest trail a go before committing.

Removed.

I used to pay for Registry Mechanic from PC Tools which certainly seemed to do the job, however I now use CCleaner instead, it seems to be as effective and it's free.

slipstream_uk

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RegSeeker
Freeware

I also use TuneUp Utilities 2009 / Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware / Avast / CCleaner