Slow XP computer shows regedit.exe running in task manager

[Tonyg]

Hello,

I have Dell Dimension 9150 with four meg ram and Windows XP Pro SP3.

Sometimes my computer slows down to where it takes Word 2007 a couple of minutes to open and load a simple document or it takes a minute to
go from one site to another in IE 8.0.

When it runs slow like that, i look at the CPU usage by right clicking on the task bar and going to Task Manager.  The Processes tab shows that regedit.exe is using the most CPU and it’s usually over 50%.

If I don't have regedit open, why would it show regedit using so much of the CPU?

It eventually goes back to normal.

I have already tried using the software from these two links, but it is still happening.
http://www.malwarebytes.org/
http://www.superantispyware.com/download.html

Does anybody have any idea of what this could be?

Any help would be gratefully appreciated.

Thanks,
Tony

[David Rhind]

You could try Powertools from Macecraft (http://www.macecraft.com/). Very good registry cleaner and assorted other tools,

David

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