Vitadolce wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi all. I am new to this site. I have vista home premium and am
> experiencing the following problems: a) Internet explorer 8 suddenly
> disconnecting. this is happening frequently b) Slow PC- poor navigation
> response times.[/color]


A great many things can cause a machine to perform poorly, primary
among them are malware infestations, having too limited a machine (CPU
speed, RAM, etc., for the number of applications and/or processes
running), or a badly fragmented hard drive.

For the IE8 disconnects, check with your ISP to ensure the reliability
of your connection, and make sure that whatever device (modem, ethernet
controller, etc.) you use to connect is working properly and has the
proper device drivers installed.

None of the symptoms you've described could possibly be addressed by a
registry "cleaner."

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> I have attempted to speed things up by doing a win disk clean and disk
> defrag. Also downloaded ccclean to clean up my system. All this improved
> PC speed marginally (say 5-10%) but my internet explorer disconnection
> issue continues. I am considering purchasing a registry cleaner to
> resolve my main 2 issues. Please advise.
>
>[/color]


No, Vista most definitely *NOT* need a registry "cleaner." No
Microsoft OS since Win95/WinNT has done so, and they were of
questionable value even then.

Why do you even think you'd ever need to clean your registry? What
specific *problems* are you actually experiencing (not some program's
bogus listing of imaginary problems) that you think can be fixed by
using a registry "cleaner?"

If you do have a problem that is rooted in the registry, it would
be far better to simply edit (after backing up, of course) only the
specific key(s) and/or value(s) that are causing the problem. After
all, why use a chainsaw when a scalpel will do the job? Additionally,
the manually changing of one or two registry entries is far less likely
to have the dire consequences of allowing an automated product to make
multiple changes simultaneously. The only thing needed to safely clean
your registry is knowledge and Regedit.exe.

The registry contains all of the operating system's "knowledge" of
the computer's hardware devices, installed software, the location of the
device drivers, and the computer's configuration. A misstep in the
registry can have severe consequences. One should not even turning
loose a poorly understood automated "cleaner," unless he is fully
confident that he knows *exactly* what is going to happen as a result of
each and every change.

Having repeatedly seen the results of inexperienced people using
automated registry "cleaners," I can only advise all but the most
experienced computer technicians (and/or hobbyists) to avoid them all.
Experience has shown me that such tools simply are not safe in the hands
of the inexperienced user. If you lack the knowledge and experience to
maintain your registry by yourself, then you also lack the knowledge and
experience to safely configure and use any automated registry cleaner,
no matter how safe they claim to be.

More importantly, no one has ever demonstrated that the use of an
automated registry "cleaner," particularly by an untrained,
inexperienced computer user, does any real good, whatsoever. There's
certainly been no empirical evidence offered to demonstrate that the use
of such products to "clean" Vista's registry improves a computer's
performance or stability. Given the potential for harm, it's just not
worth the risk.

Granted, most registry "cleaners" won't cause problems each and
every time they're used, but the potential for harm is always there.
And, since no registry "cleaner" has ever been demonstrated to do any
good, I always tell people that the risks far out-weigh the non-existent
benefits.

I will concede that a good registry *scanning* tool, in the hands
of an experienced and knowledgeable technician or hobbyist can be a
useful time-saving diagnostic tool, as long as it's not allowed to make
any changes automatically. But I really don't think that there are any
registry "cleaners" that are truly safe for the general public to use.
Experience has proven just the opposite: such tools simply are not safe
in the hands of the inexperienced user.

A little further reading on the subject:

Why I don't use registry cleaners
[url]http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=643[/url]

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