I've never used spybot, so I have no idea. I have recommended ad-aware to people who've complained MSIE is slow and it's cleaned it up.
ccleaner is here: http://www.ccleaner.com/
And FWIW, I haven't had to do a full system reinstall of Windows for over 10yrs. I'm just OCD on keeping it clean :-)
Thanks again, K - we're pretty good about system maintainance, but I'm gonna check out the link.
Just got a Spybot message on her computer, it said Spybot has detected an important registry entry that has been changed in the system startup user entry category. It was auto rebooting at the time.
Still have the warning message hanging on the screen, don't want to either allow or deny the change until I can figure out what the #$**# is going on.
"There is no royal road to this heavy surf-fishing. With all the appliances for comfort experience can suggest, there is a certain amount of hard work to be done and exposure to be bourne as a part of the price of success." From "Striped Bass," Scribner's Magazine, 1881.