Andavari

In order to properly clean the registry (with any registry cleaning program) you need to logon with the Administrator account for your system, if you haven't done so already.

MSPUB.EXE is Microsoft Publisher and it has nothing to do with Word, and their settings are stored differently. Whatsmore if you allow MS Office to store the setup files on the hard disk it can easily be repaired in a matter of minutes - sometimes without even rebooting.

MSAS should really be able to download and upgrade itself, it could make for a smaller download by only upgrading components that have changed.

It doesn't look suspicious and it doesn't say it's hidden from the Windows API. View the screenshot on the RootkitRevealer website to see what something malicious looks like: http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/RootkitRevealer.html

There's no such thing as securing a computer from being physically stolen unless of course it's in a hardend government facility.

It gave me the validation message just yesterday when I downloaded the new version of Microsoft AntiSpyware, it then updated Genuine Windows Validation. Something else Microsoft has a website after you validate a download that will allow you to download some other Microsoft freeware.

While you're at it you may want to get the system transferred into your name (that would be the service tag), that way you can download updates from Dell's website that are tailored just for that PC.

That's good information to know. The only reason I removed Wackget was because I thought it couldn't resume downloads, looks like I'll be reinstalling it. Split downloads is the hype some download managers rave about which supposedly allows for faster downloading, I've never seen such a feature give me any speed boost, which I suppose would have to be thoroughly tested to be credited or discredited. Split downloads can however save a download that would otherwise fail when one download server is really slow, I've seen that happen multiple times when downloading for instance QuickTime Alternative.

For starters make sure you're logged on with Administrator's privileges which is required for importing data into the Windows registry. Other than that I see no errors with the .reg file you listed.

Well since it isn't an actual Dell manufactured PC I have no ideal if it would even work, you may actually cause problems running it and allowing it to make system changes. On my system I just ran the downloaded file, it installs the program which you can then run from the start menu program group named: Dell Accessories > Driver Reset Tool

Thanks for the info! This new version with new definition files will remove the Sony XCP DRM, and from info gathered so will the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool that's released in December.

Reminiscing: Things were so much simpler to delete in Win9x via a batch file in DOS mode.

The only firewall issues I ever had with a p2p app was many years ago using Napster, and that was the last time I used a p2p program. Several firewalls would block other users from downloading files from my system even after I configured (or mis-configured) the firewall to allow downloading from my system. I personally never had any download speed issues with a firewall.

That sounds like a very unique problem. Have you yet checked the manufacturer website for support documentation about the issue? My only guess is that something the printer needs is being removed from a temp directory (I could be wrong) however that would be rather sloppy storing needed information in a temp directory that will surely get cleaned by many cleaning programs.

Not unless the cookies could be read and look for things like POST or CODE or whatever, but then again that would probably significantly slow down the cleaning time.

Well there's been a couple of posts about something not being cleaned and both were German versions of Win2k or WinXP. So perhaps just trying CCleaner using the German localization would solve the issue.

That's it!

I'm just used to the way things were in Kerio Personal Firewall 2.1.5 being fully configurable without generic descriptions like "Download Manager," "Browser," however it's vulnerable now and will let some nasty things through.

It gets stored in a file in Winamp's installed folder, just open the files with a text editor to find them, you can manually remove them. I'm not sure what would happen if the whole file was deleted.

Some more information would be helpful: * Windows version * Copy the .reg file and paste it into a reply using the CODE function

Fragmentation depends upon what you're doing on your system. Since I typically deal with large files that are several hundreds of MB in size defragging everyday negates long defrag times that a once per week method would cause in my situation.

It's worth a try, hence I don't like Windows XP all that much -- I went from absolutely hating Windows XP in 2003 when I got my new PC with it pre-installed to in-the-now of just putting up with it.

To get the lowdown on what this thread pertains to visit the originating thread Almost lost doc - major flaw.

That's exactly what I'm using now after ZoneAlarm started to really annoy me, and I don't care anymore that WinXP's firewall doesn't block outgoing traffic since I scan everything that get's downloaded to verify it doesn't contain any malware. I'll just live with the no outgoing filtering vulnerability versus a third-party firewall causing system-wide issues.

We know it's not a CCleaner flaw, therefore this thread is like beating a dead horse.