On Fri, 02 May 2008 09:39:51 -0400 Dave Phillips <dlphillips@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
