[Registry Cleaner]

Well, common and common. It happens ever so often. It's a good idea to run CCleaner's regcleaner more that once.

 

And no. You can't find a regcleaner more safe than CCleaner. The only other equally safe alternative is "Windows Live OneCare safety scanner" which is a free offer that Microsoft runs. It's a 360 actually. It can defrag, regclean, clean up, remove malware, optimize and what have you. Online!

 

Link: http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/default.htm?mkt=en-us

 

I take it for a spin every now and then. It has hidden talents since only Microsoft knows exactly what Windows keys are genuinely obsolete. So it dare take more than any other regcleaner. Don't be surprised if it takes several hundred the first time.

 

It will even update your OS. If you're running behind it will send the Yellow Shield to your Taskbar with all the updates that you need. It usually arrives within minutes after the scan is done.

 

Note that there's a separate link for Windows Vista and Windows 7 users.

 

Windows Live OneCare safety scanner will stay put even though Microsoft no longer has the OneCare series for sale. So we will always have it should problems arise.

 

Thank you for all these wonderful tips!

 

I tried running OneCare, but get an error message: We're sorry. This version of the Windows Live OneCare safety scanner doesn't work with your Web browser or operating system.

 

I'm running the Vista version on IE 8, so dunno why I can't get it running.

 

I was trying to run CCleaner to sort out to startup error messages I get: "C:\Windows\inf\other.exe" & "C:\Windows\System32\config\win.exe" - something about them not being able to load cos they can't be found in the reg.

 

Would appreciate any help in these 2 matters (Running OneCare & the 2 reg startup errors)

 

Ta much!