[GoJoAGoGo]

I don't know how long this free Microsoft scanner has been around but I just found out about it from a forum on CNET. It's called Windows Live OneCare. It does a virus - spyware scan, a scan for invalid registry entries, a scan for temp files, a scan of ports and checks to see if you need a disk defrag and will do that if you need it. It's compatible with Windows XP/2000/2003 and Internet Explorer. It's a good scanner and you should try it out ...
http://safety.live.com/site/en-US/default.htm

[guitar]

its a little to good as it removed my p2p and the songs i had in my downloads folder without asking just as well i move them to another hard drive so only lost a few

[GoJoAGoGo]

For me the scanner found 93 invalid registry entries and didn't display what the entries were. I did had a choice whether or not to delete them. A System Restore point was automatically created before the entries were deleted.

[aarhus2004]

Hello Joe,

I suppose I was disappointed to read that the cleaning software/freeware was not for WinME. Then I felt relief on reading the other posts.

But haven't I read somewhere, quite recently, that Microsoft has announced that they will be conducting a thorough and ongoing investigation of PC software fraud? Something free may be as good a way as any.

Cheers.

Ben.