Free way of cleaning a computers faulty registry

[JDarvall]

Anybody know of any freeware programs I can download to fix registry problems in my computer....

See, I'm continually getting this little popup windows on my screen yelling at me that my registry is corrupt, and if I don't fix soon, my whole computer will go to #####. I close these windows, but they keep coming up......and strangely, everytime they come up they recommend a different cleaning program......eg....

fix-reg.com
fixwin32.com
myregfix.com

Every one of these programs does a scan of my registry and reports over a hundred errors. Each program comes up with a different number of errors too ???? I don't get it. Shouldn't there be the same number of problems.

But, of course, after they've reported the errors they ask for my credit card details, to charge me about $30 to fix the lot, which of course I don't want to pay.

Any ideas. The problems been dragging on for a couple of days now. Nothings ##### itself yet. How do I address this problem ?

Thanks . Any ideas.

Jake

[Ian007]

try this

http://www.ccleaner.com/

Cheers Ian

[Ivan in Oz]

http://www.download.com/3120-20_4-0....=37&search.y=8

or try Tucows

[chrisb691]

I'd suggest that you have a variety of nasty on your PC, that is causing the popups. Maybe it's spyware or adware, or something worse. Windows itself has nothing that will cause these popups.

I suggest you get Hold of "Spybot search & destroy", and maybe "A squared" for starters, both are freeware.

[felixe]

Hi Apricotripper,
It sounds like you have some sort of spyware/freeware issue going on that keeps popping up and trying to get a sale!
If you do need to clean your registry try using "regseeker", it's the one I use, you download it, unzip it and run it straight away from the folder, no further installation required.
RegSeeker website : http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm
I suggest you also go to this website (rayshaw.com.au) this is where I got the regseeker link from. Ray Shaw is a writer for the "courier mail" QLD on computer and IT related issues, he has an informative and simple website and will have links to removing any spyware as well.

Good luck, I hope this helps.

Felixe

[ThePope]

You've definately been infected with scumware, get yourself both of these programs and they should clean up the crap someone has so kindly installed on your system. Both are free and do a great job, if you still have problems let me know, there's always a fix somewhere for this s.hit

Spybot - Search & Destroy
http://www.spybot.info/en/spybotsd/index.html

Ad-Aware Personal
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

[macca2]

http://www.pctools.com/registry-mechanic/?ref=googleB
Try this one.
It came with the Netguide mag
macca

[doug the slug]

RegSeeker website : http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm

Thanks Felixe, nice little program

[Ashore]

SIL had a similar problem 3 months ago after he up graded to XP he had a problem with not-ons not working with the up-grade,
spybot and adaware didn't clean it so he got a copy of Vet security suite and it cleaned the hole thing , got rid of all the crap , 23 viruses etc , down side cost was about $125 for the 12 months sub to Vet.


Rgds

[Ianab]

It looks like that you are getting spam thru 'windows messenger service'. This is a built in part of windows which allows messages to be sent from one PC to another on the network. No one uses it for that, except spammers.
There is probably no fault with your PC, but you need to turn some things off and/or install a firewall to stop it.

Have a look at this page and see if it matches up with what you have.

http://elamb.blogharbor.com/hacked/m...ystemalert.htm

Bottom of the page tells you how to turn off the windows messaging and recomends you install a firewall, Zonealarm is good (and free)

Cheers

Ian

[JDarvall]

Thanks everyone for the excellent advice. I'd be stuffed without this forum.

Ianab.......you right. Same sort of messages as those shown in your link.
I had some trouble downloading the cleaning programs though. For some reason, in the middle of downloading the internet would go off line, and then fail to reconnect unless I restarted the whole computer.

I managed to download that freeware from felixe though. And Dougs right. Nice little program alright. Quick. Thanks. The problems fixed. It also seemed to clear other hanging problems I was having.

So I need a firewall eh. How memory absorbing are these things to run ? I mean, I've heard there good as long as you've got a powerful enough computer to run it,,,,otherwise it can slow things down too much . I should just try one and see what happens.

[namtrak]

If your running XP give Windows Defender a go as well. I run Adaware, spybot and Defender.

[Ianab]

So I need a firewall eh. How memory absorbing are these things to run ? I mean, I've heard there good as long as you've got a powerful enough computer to run it,,,,otherwise it can slow things down too much . I should just try one and see what happens.

ZoneAlarm is good, and the price is right (Free) and shouldn't bog down your PC too badly.
If you find it slows you down, then spend a few bucks and get a bit more ram for your PC. Actually maybe go and get some more ram anyway, it's cheap and can make an old PC work twice as fast as it used to anyway.

Cheers

Ian

[skratbag]

Hi,

If you have a router/modem and are running ADSL, you may have a firewall in the modem that can be activated. I have one in mine (Zyxel 660H) and it works just fine.

Regards

[stevebaby]

http://www.pctools.com/registry-mechanic/?ref=googleB
Try this one.
It came with the Netguide mag
macca

Second that.Doesn't remove spyware but fixes heaps of registry problems.It's very good.