2 May
2008
2 May
'08
8:40 p.m.
On Fri, 02 May 2008 09:39:51 -0400
Dave Phillips <dlphillips(a)woh.rr.com> wrote:
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 ?
From the woes I've heard from the Windows folk I
know, reinstalling seems to be the way to go, and is generally accepted as routine system
maintenance :o
++backup, after installing all the apps and updates.
My XP install has ZoneAlarm, AdAware and Avira Antivir, and Firefox of course. This seems
to have been enough to prevent any issues for at least a couple of years.
-
Mike