sosolo

Thank you so much -- for the welcome, and for answering all my concerns so promptly! I really appreciate it. I will steel myself to backup and clean up the registry issues (keeping everything crossed while I do it ) and HOPE hard. As to gmail - I went to the help board there, and I see quite a few people having problems with the changing from html to standard format. I'm sure they didn't all just get CCleaner too Kudos to you for your cheerful and ready help. solo

Hello, I'm running Windows XP sp2 and IE6 -1- Have just done my first "clean" and then switched to "issues" Have removed/deleted all of many items where it was shown that the "usual fix = delete" I'm left - no, stuck - with 2 unused file extension problems and 19 ActiveX/COM Issues. If I try to fix, I'm asked if I want to back up first. If it needs to be backed up first, I find that worrisome... How safe is it, even with backup, to go ahead with this kind of action? Is it possible to make a drastic mistake in this area, or will CCleaner NOT present me with such dangerous fixes? I have little confidence in doing all this, and would really appreciate some guidance and honest encouragement or otherwise as to what to do. (heck, I don't even know if I'm making sense to anyone with my attempt to explain here) -2- My browser question is that after I used the Cleaner section, when I went to my Gmail account, I got the message <quote> "you are currently viewing Gmail in basic HTML. [switch to standard view]"</quote> (the [last] being a link). Why would it have been altered? And is it ok to change to standard? This is all so confusing. I thought all the browser pages were always html. What is standard then? Well, that's two questions on the browser. Hope that's ok (help!) solo