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Thanks for the reply's guy's Yes i am aware of the system restore but as you know, i wanted to make shure that this wasn't a virus so i turned it off and then turned it back on. This erases all the restore points made, but i heard some where that by turning off the restore.. Then back on, it will erase any virus's hiding in the file that was made when the restore was done. Ok the slow down i know is part of ram too wich i will upgrade to 512mb when i pick up another stick of 256mb. But the main reason is this: I test out alot of program's on the computer that are virus free when i scan them before installing. anyway's when i delete these programs from my computer, why are they still in the registry ? When you delete a program it deletes it from the hhd, but why does it still show in the registry ? What my intention is , is to default the .reg back to the way it used to be when i 1st got the computer. I know there is a way to do this from the windows xp cd. i will check out micro$oft site and see if i can get my answer, but i prefer to get my answer here. Thanx

i am voting for windows but that does'nt mean that i don't like linux cause i have never used it before but want to try it out. How stable is the live cd for Linux ? and do you just down load the iso and burn it to a cd or do you have to order the linux cd ? either way, what is the best method to go for a 1st time Linux user ? Thanx for the info

Ok i have an older style Gateway computer that is 950 mhz cpu/ 256 mb ram/ running windows xp home. I want to know how to restore the registry back to default. or to better put it. How do you restore a good registry from the Windows XP cd ? The gateway computer i have i use to play video games on and to test out programs, but now my computer has been running really slow latelty. it takes like what seems to be eternity for the windows to load up. i have run defrag on the hhd (harddrive) and also ran all my spyware programs. i am aware that if you quarintine certain programs, some programs will cease to work. but this is not the case not a virus cause i have scanned my hdd and it found nothing. So can someone tell me how do your restore a good registry using the windows xp cd? And do you have to do it in command prompt ? Can you restore the reg. from the cd command prompt before windows loads ? or do you have to boot into windows and then from there restore a good registry. All help is much appreciated.

Was up peoples ? i was checking out the place for a few day's now and decided to see what this place is like. It seems to me that this forum is well maintained.Anyway's just thought i'd drop in and say Hello. Now on to the postin, *grabs a nice cold soda... Ahhhh*