Hi,just wondering if anyone could help me solve the puzzle i am having with my registry.When i open HKEY CLASSES ROOT every item has doubled or tripled .I know deleting from the registry is not a good thing to do ,but im wondering if two and tree copies of everything are causing current freezing problems i am havin at the moment .Any ideas will do as i dont know were to begin .Many Thanks

A good (free) "cleaner" for removing junk from your system is CCleaner. It also performs a "clean-up" pass on the registry.

http://www.ccleaner.com/download/
(Click on Download from FileHippo......, in the PayPal box)

Alternate Download;
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4191.html


Once you download and install it, open the program then click on (left hand side) OPTIONS, then COOKIES. Any cookies you want to save (trusted sites, places you have usernames/passwords), highlight them in the left column, then (using the directional arrows between the panes), move them to the right hand column under "Cookies to keep".

Still under Options, click on Advanced. Remove the check mark from the box for "Only delete files in Windows Temp folders older than 48 hours".

Leave all other settings at the default.

Then click on Cleaner (on the top left). When that window opens, click on Run Cleaner (bottom right of the window.)

When it finishes, close CCleaner, and restart your machine.

(Some files will not be deleted until a restart is performed.)

I do not advocate running CCleaner on each boot. I run it once or twice a week.