Such statements are from those that sell such cleaners and are to be avoided.
Read Overclocking advice and you see we had to look over the machine to find a software conflict.
Bob
I have a older computer running Windows XP Professional. It is getting slower and starting to be unpredictable at times. I believe my problem is related to the registry starting to become too corrupted but could be wrong. I run a reg. cleaner weekly. I have decent Anti-Virus software and spy-bot running. Occasionally, they fine a suspicious file and I am careful not to let through. I run Malewarebytes weekly too. I have run Hijack-this and looked at that but didn't recognize anything suspicious (I do have some experience). I have defraged and ran chkdsk. Nothing in particular seems to show up nor do I really know how to use the advanced diagnostic tools and know better than to mess with them. I don't think I am infected but could be wrong. Just want to get a second opinion from a expert which I am not.

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