After just spending 3 1/2 hours cleaning up the registry on our home computer, I really think it's time to move on and give a Chromebook a try, much as I distrust Google as much as I detest MSFT and AAPL. There's got to be SOMETHING that's better than what I've got now.

Lordy, how I hate computers.

If you hate Microsoft and Apple and distrust Google, why not try Linux?

Linux...

It's truly the dark side, but from your avatar, you are already there...

What on earth would cause you to spend 3 1/2 hours mucking about in the registry?

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Originally posted by bobtheelf:
What on earth would cause you to spend 3 1/2 hours mucking about in the registry?

If I tried it, the first five minutes would be to "fix" something, the rest of the time would be trouble-shooting the fallout from the five minute fix.

Advanced System Care 10.0, Windows Defender and Encryption enabled on your WiFi. Add in AVG or Malewarebytes. Be more selective about surfing adult sites and this won't happen.

Learn to use Windows Restore Points too.

For surfing the web, Chromebooks are great. Zero maintenance and five second boot time is hard to beat.

I rely on CCleaner, and it keeps things humming along reasonably well....

One of my coworkers asked me to take a look at her kids' laptop last week. She told me it'd slowed down. I've worked on it before, and I know somebody in that house likes their adult material.

I tried taking a look, and it just booted into an endless Windows Startup Repair loop. I walked back up to ask about it, and she tells me, "Yeah, my son mentioned that it was doing that." That information might have been useful to know when you handed it to me.

Turns out the registry was corrupted. Good thing "there's nothing important on it," because the only surefire way to recover from that without a backup is to reimage the computer.

You must have got the Russian version.