In my earlier posts I may (may not) have mentioned that I've gotten 3 viruses and two trojans in the last month. Now my registry is behaving oddly. Programs I uninstalled are IN the system and in the registry, but not in the add/remove programs listing. It appears as if the registry is "rolling back" to a WAY earlier date! I mean, there are programs in there that I've not had on my computer for over a month. Now, when I go in manually and delete these files out of explorer (not in the add/remove programs list OR in the programs listing), the programs come back after reboot. This includes my zonealarm program. In other words, I began noticing that old programs were showing back up in my "programs" listing in zonealarm, which means I went through and deleted the files in zonealarm to reset everything (exactly as they say to do so), but the NEXT time I reboot, all is back again. Now, the help files have been defunct since the first virus. I am completely unable to use the help files, and Ive no clue how to make then accessable again. I've tried every instruction I've seen online, but nothing's worked. So... How do I get all this stuff OUT of the registry, and how do I keep the registry from going back to a WAY earlier configuration after a simple reboot/shutdown? Thank you so much in advance for your time and assistance.

HHHHHMMmmmmmmmmmmmmm???? I would try REGCLEAN, do a search on the M$ site and download it. It can ruin your machine or it might fix it or it may do nothing. I fixed a tough case with Regclean once. Be carefull

Hmmnnnn is right. I sure can't risk having to reformat at this point in time. It appears to have stopped, though. Odd.