removing junk from registry

I used a free sample program on Yahoo called Spyhunter.
It checks for junk free, but to remove the junk you have to
buy the program. It found 3 bad registries, but only gave part of the address in the computer, so my question is...

How do I get to the registry to remove the junk?

I'm running XP Home Edition on a Gateway Laptop.
I had my firewall on and haven't opened any crazy mail.
The sample program gave a partial address of

HKEY_CURRE... and HKEY_CLASSE...

any help would be appreciated.
regards, flatfoot

 

Hello flatfoot,

"How do I get to the registry to remove the junk?"

HKEY_CURRE... and HKEY_CLASSE...

Can't w/o the full path.

If you want to use a very good paid reg cleaner, then look into Reg1stAid http://www.rosecitysoftware.com/Reg1Aid/

Trial period w/o the nonsense.

A free one: RegSeeker
http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm

Use them both.

As for other junk removal:

SpyBot http://tomcoyote.org/SPYBOT/
Ad-Aware http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/

Both free.

Regards - Charles

 

Hello flatfoot,
If you have spyware on your computer, SpyBot Search & Destroy will help dig it out and it is free: http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?lang=en&page=download

J. M.

 

Hi Flatfoot:

Without a doubt, the best program for removing junk from the Registry, freeware or otherwise, BAR NONE, is jv16 PowerTools, which just happens to be Freeware.

 

Hello BreezyCricket,

"Without a doubt, the best program for removing junk from the Registry "

Agreed, but it's no longer freeware. The supported version went shareware a few months ago.

The last free version can be downloaded from here: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=1680

Regards - Charles

 

Hi Charles:

Many Thanks for this information.