[LAU] [OT] need advice re: Windows registry cleaners (majorly OT)

[Dave Phillips]

Greetings,

If any of you have experience in this direction, perhaps you could 
suggest what I should recommend to my better half (Ivy). Her Inspiron is 
showing the all-too-familiar signs of infestation, slowing down to a 
crawl and sometimes even stopping completely. She's not ready for Linux 
yet, so she has to resolve this problem with XP. She's looking at some 
free and some commercial programs that claim to clean and repair the 
registry, but neither of us know if there are any especially recommended 
programs or utilities for such a job.

Any advice from the dual-booters out there in LAU land ?

Best,

dp