[verbalista]

How's this for weird: I had to reinstall Vista Home Premium Edition because there was a problem with Windows Update. The reinstall fixed that problem. I used my registry cleaner, it found 336 problem files and fixed them (since I didn't do a clean install). Those files can be restored, if necessary, used Max Registry Cleaner.
Thought everything was running fine, then discovered that if I right click the recycle bin, the system crashes. I can restart it without a full restart. I can't get to the properties for the recycle bin, because the minute I right click it, everything goes down.

I have no idea what to do about this, I can't delete and restore the recycle bin...same reason. I can open the recycle bin, though I don't see how that helps.

I suspect I need to get at this problem through the registry.

I hope someone has an idea for me, I'm very appreciative of any help. For my other computer, I've bought a Mac, but, I wanted to use this one instead of the creaky old one upstairs...

[AKAJohnDoe]

Originally Posted by verbalista

I used my registry cleaner

Don't do that next time

[verbalista]

I'm surprised to hear that, I've been using a registry cleaner every week for years...
It seems to keep everything running smoothly.
After I restored the files I had removed, all of them, the problem persists, I don't think that had anything to do with this. I guess I do need to reformat if I want a working system on this machine.
It was the need to reformat that caused me to buy the Mac, I know, definitely, that Microsoft caused the other problem I had (which now is fixed by the installation I just did ), the Windows Update wouldn't work even after hours of using remedies from Microsoft and then from techs here. So, if I'm doing all that work anyway, I thought I'd take the opportunity to retire my upstairs machine, which groans whenever I start it and is soon going to have hardware failures (though it's battling on, it's about 5 years old.
This last insult from Microsoft, wasting hours and hours of my time, just made me so furious that I decided it was time to switch horses.