Clarence.. no it doesnt take hours to use this method of scandisk as it runs under DOS.. simple and easy and no it is not the same as regclean.. this FIXES your registry .. it searches for correct entries and corrects them if they are not... again simple to use and works and is a part of the windows systems and is what is termed a poweruser tool... and it is described in many of the books about these versions of Windows .... and they do work great.... I also use regcelan but it cleans out errors in only a few places of the registry,not the complete registry..... and I use a few other programs also but they can be bit complex in their use... I found Nortons system works to have some problems at times so have stopped using it.... I use Nortons antivrus only now and use a program form ONTRACK as it also has data recovery capability builtin along with a rescue setup and virus checking feature that can be run under dos just incase of a nasty getting in on me... and Nortons didnt catch it,but so far that hasnt occured..... knock on wood I guess..... Chuck.. in Ok UNSUBSCRIBE by sending email to triadtechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with unsubscribe in the Subject field. To VIEW/CHANGE your subscription status go to //www.freelists.org/webpage/triadtechtalk