Hi Alan,

The Uniblue I downloaded will only clean out 15 faults, unless I pay for the full version.
I put regfix into Google and it bought up several sites.
Any chance of you posting the full title of the one you use and where you downloaded it from. This would be much appreciated.

Greek.

G,

For what it's worth I use the Uniblue jobbie and it seems fine.

I paid for it. I am not sure how much faster it makes things - but I must have been convinced at the time I doled out the cash!!

TP

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But it does not stop triple posts..........

The Publisher,

Thanks. It does look good but if I can get a good one for nothing (typical Yorkshire man) I will try it.

Greek.

Hi Greek,
Try here
Alan

Can't get the damn link working!!!!
www.regsofts.com

Not sure why you're doing all of this, greekman, from the links Optimist posted it looks to me like teatime.exe is just part of Spybot which is itself an anti-spyware program which you presumably installed some time ago. You appear to be looking for an anti-anti-spyware program? :-)

Sorry for the humour but my feeling on all these programs is that they are actually the problem rather than the solution. You seem to be proving the point. For most people there is more danger in downloading random cleanup programs then there was from spyware in the first place.

BTW just because one of these programs says that you have x hundred problems that need resolving, it doesn't mean you actually have them. Flagging non-problems is how the developers persuade people to buy the program. That is why cookies are always highlighted even though they are always harmless.

Kayak,

Thanks but I know I have a registry that needs cleaning up. It might help my PC speed up a bit. I looked at teatime.exe and it did look as if it was OK but us technophobic have little if no patience with things we don't understand so thats why we sometimes panic a bit. (been in many hairy situations no prob, but sit me in front of a PC thats got problems that's different) If a screwdriver or hammer wont fix something I get stuck.

Alan,

Thanks will try it later.

Regards to both Greek.

It is very unlikely that you have a registry that needs cleaning up. Cleaning up registries is not a normal thing to do. Even if there are 600 entries to remove, that would be out of a total of many thousands if not tens of thousands and so your system would be unlikely to run any faster.

The best way to get your system to run faster is to check that you have sufficient main memory and then look at all your installed software, particularly running software in the sidebar/system tray, and remove any that is not absolutely necessary. Dare I say it remove a few cleanup programs? :-)

Cheers Kayak,

I do have 4 items on the side bar, and you are the second poster to mention this could be a problem so will remove them to see if it helps.

Kayak, Optimist, Alan,

Side bar now gone and Regsofts used, definite increase in speed of laptop.

Kayak,

As said I'm technophobic so I could not see how switching my kettle off would help as it's in the kitchen 2 rooms away from my laptop. But that's what I tried first. Did not appear to make any difference, but thanks anyway.

Once again much obliged to all.

:-)

Can anyone explain why anyone would use Vista instead of XP SP2 ?

Brianboru,
because you bought a PC with it installed ?
because you have a company PC and they use Vista
becaue you like operating systems

other than that .....

I dont have it on any of my own PCs....

Could anyone explain why anyone would use XP or Vista rather than Windows 2000? :-)

Stable, nearly identical and compatible to XP apart from visually, no copy protection...

K, and bloody expensive if you have to buy it ;-) well the ultimate version is ....

Brianboru

I use Win 2K, XP and Vista

Although W2K is extremly stable, it no longer runs the latest programs not even IE7 or Office 2007.

XP is almost as stable but will run most modern programs.

Vista has many bells and whistles plus some things are easier and most editions include Media Centre if you want that. Future software will take advantage of some of it's more obscure features.

The most important thing IMO is that the better versions have the bitlocker system that enables the entire hard disk to be encrypted (this should be compulsory for goverment laptops). It also has many features that help IT admins in larger companies.

S

Buy the OEM version which can be found at a reasonable price - you can't switch it to another machine though :(

O, I know but you only get either a 32 or 64 bit version not both and it still costs over 100.

And I am now moving away from using a single OS and trying to use portable apps, I use a iMac as my main home machine and I also have a couple of Intel PC running Ubuntu Linux, I keep my 2 year old Tosh laptop with XP for anything where I have to use MS.

I do use Vista on my work PC and its fine.