Registry cleaners actually do little, if anything, positive for your computer ... I would avoid using them, while they may not help, they CAN screw your computer up ... Ad-Aware and Spybot, as mentioned, are free anti-malware utilities that work pretty well (they each have about a 60% success rate, according to tests by PC WORLD magazine ... Webroot's 'Spy Sweeper' is the #1 best (I run it), it catches over 90% of the bugs, but costs about $30/year ... definitely worth the price ... :smokin: