Hi. Don't forget about the "free" Microsoft tools. They are not specifically for the registry (I use Norton360 to do that type of work), but they (CHKDSK for you old-timers) might solve your problem(s). Briefly: 1. click on My Computer 2. left mouse click your primary hard drive (probably your C: drive) to select it 3. right mouse click on it to bring up a contextual menu 4. select Properties 5. select the Tools tab 6. select the error checking option(you could do the defragmentation later) 7. click in the 2 boxes for a thorough check with repairs/fix 8. click on 'ok' to set the settings, but you are going to have to reboot the computer to automatically run the diagnostics 9. reboot 10. before the Microsoft blue Welcome screen appears CHKDSK will run in 5 stages... stage 1, 2 and 3 go pretty quickly, while stages 4 and 5 take more time. Your computer will be in much better shape after the test completes... and it's free! Good luck. KenC ----- Original Message ----- From: alice dampman To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 7:28 PM Subject: Re: Free Registry Cleaner What's registry repair? How does one know if one needs one? alicedh@xxxxxxxxxxx ----- Original Message ----- From: Gerald Levy To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 10:50 AM Subject: Re: Free Registry Cleaner Not true. The free version available today repairs registry errors that it detects. Gerald ----- Original Message ----- From: Charles To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 9:52 AM Subject: Re: Free Registry Cleaner Hi, There is nothing for free. This program will find the errors but you will have to pay $29.95 to buy the program in order to correct the errors found on your computer.----- Original Message ----- From: Gerald Levy To: JFW list Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 5:25 AM Subject: Free Registry Cleaner Today only, Giveaway of the Day is offering Quicksys Reg Cleaner 2009 for free. It is a registry scanner and repair utility that is accessible with JAWS using the JAWS cursor, and to my surprise, it discovered over 1300 rregistry errors on my system. If you're interested, go to Giveaway of the Day: http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/ Gerald ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.11.4/1976 - Release Date: 02/27/09 13:27:00