windoz 10

all that was available was the pentium quadcore....I can live with it.

love the size, love the price...basically testing 10

I've done this b4 with 7, instead of getting a builders disk etc etc

don't love the options for updates either...they changed them

already found 250 pieces of spyware, but that's a daily search anyways

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just crippled and cheap.

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you mean crippled kinda like a bird with its' wings clipped?

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already found 250 pieces of spyware, but that's a daily search anyways 

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Not Windows 10 fault

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You have a new computer with 250 pieces of spyware? Stop downloading so much porn.

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havent been to one site

all picked up from ordinary stops and whatever was on it
download dot com
mozilla
comodo

believe it or not...

also 25% fragmented and 750registry errors

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750registry errors

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Those aren't errors. Do not run registry cleaners. Advanced users only, and still not all that necessary.

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Those aren't errors

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hmmmmm...ok

I'm willing to learn

explain plz

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explain plz

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Maybe later, but suffice it to say that if you need me to explain, you really shouldn't touch the registry. CCleaner is not as unsafe as others, but it doesn't mean you should let it delete registry entries en masse.

If you're concerned about registry bloat (which is all CCleaner's registry cleaner attempts to deal with anyway), you should use a third-party uninstaller tool that removes registry keys that might typically be leftover when uninstalling software the traditional way. But I hesitate to recommend you download yet another "cleaning" utility since you seem to pile those on with little regard for their sources.

If you want to understand how registry cleaners work then you first need to understand what the registry is.

The registry is a large database of entries related to settings and such for Windows and installed programs.

For example, if you install a program like 7zip to open up zip files, then 7zip will make an entry in the registry that says zip files are associated with it. When Windows Explorer sees a zip file, it'll show the icon for 7zip and open 7zip when you double-click the file because there's an entry in the registry that says so.

It'll also create a registry entry for context menus. For example, if you want to create a new zip file, you could right click on a folder and select the entry to make a zip file out of that folder, because 7zip put an entry in the registry that says to add that menu to Windows Explorer when the user right-clicks on a folder

7zip will also create a bunch of registry entries for its individual options. Let's say you also go into 7zip's preferences and change the program to be blue instead of white because you like the color blue. Next time 7zip starts it will be blue because it read that entry from the registry when it started it.

Now let's say you uninstall 7zip, but 7zip's uninstaller for some reason or another doesn't delete these registry entries when it uninstalls. A registry cleaner would be able to scan the registry and realize that there's an entry for zip files to be associated with a program that doesn't even exist, and it might remove those entries for you.

It might also delete the registry entry for the 7zip program to be the color blue. But maybe the 7zip program left that entry there on purpose just in case you one day decide to reinstall the program and want your favorite settings to still be there? Those settings being there won't hurt a damn thing, but your registry cleaner might call them "errors."

Now these examples of entries are very simple examples. The registry is filled with thousands upon thousands of entries related to tons of things from the simplest stuff to the most complex inner workings of your system. In order to create a registry cleaner you need to create a program that goes through these entries and decides which ones are good and which ones are old or redundant or whatever. The vast majority of entries these cleaning programs remove aren't hurting a damn thing. They will not slow your computer down. They will not take up hard drive space on your computer or take up processing power. They just simply happen to be there.

If you build a computer and install plain old Windows and then immediately run a registry cleaner, it'll tell you there are tons of "errors." How can there be errors on a brand new system? Well, because they aren't errors, it just might be registry entries that are redundant or not completely necessary, etc.

When you run a registry cleaner, you are putting your system at the mercy of the algorithm that decides which entries are "good" and which are "bad." There is no reason to constantly risk the integrity of your system by running some free software from the internet. What if the software is too aggressive and deletes something important? When it wouldn't have hurt your computer in the first place?

Now, if you once had 7zip on your computer and you no longer do, and when you're right-clicking on a folder there's the menu to create a new zip file with 7zip even though the program no longer exists on your computer, it might be a good idea to run a registry cleaner so it could catch that specific situation. But unless you're seeing something like this, there is no point in running a registry cleaner on your computer. None.

If cleaning your registry was so important, after 20 years of the registry existing, you'd think Microsoft would have built in a program that cleans it automatically. After all, there is a way to remove temp files, etc. through Windows. Why not the registry? Because it's something that nobody should be fricking around with just because.