I think RegCure is a sham

I bought this 'clean up' software off the web because I wanted to clean up/delete all the empty registry keys. (I think its stuff that stays on your pc even after you uninstall/delete programs.) I have never been able to get the scan to come up with zero "empty registry keys."

I just scanned my pc six times, one right after the other, and the lowest count I could come up with is a count of 4. 4 empty registry keys. I was not nor had I been on the web. I did not uninstall any programs. I did not visit any sites. I only had RegCure up.... and kept scanning/fixing, scanning/fixing six times. Never got a zero. I think this program just randomly displays numbers so you think its doing something.

I'll be the first to admit, I'm fairly ignorant of electronics and I may be wrong... but right now I think I've been had. I'm posting this so no one else buys the junk and thinks its actually doing something. (this is not the first time I've done back-to-back scans. it is the first time I did six of them.)

Bailing as Fast as I Can

Should they really let a blind man lead the parade?

My boat (my computer for sailing the Web) has been taking on water since the very beginning. (for those not familiar, my pc died and someone sent me one of their old ones. 'Since the beginning' means since I got it.) For a while I could bail the water out and continue on, but this morning I had to drag the boat out of the water completely. I had to reinstall Windows XP. The computer wouldn't even start. Well, it started enough to tell me something about not finding a DLL for the kernel... or something similar. Huh?

And why do they let ignorant users answer technical questions? That's so scary. But apparently I answered them well enough to get here. Its all so strange. I'm seeing an old display version of Windows. It has me feeling so odd. I'm hoping the next time there's an automatic Windows update that the display will change to what I'm use to seeing.

Anyhoo.... Once again I've lost all my bookmarks so if you know there's one that I would want, I sure would appreciate it if you email it/them to me. Thanks in advance.

update: I don't know if I've fixed anything or not but it was taking over 10 minutes to load a page. Actually, I don't know how long it would take... I always bailed out. I went to redo the XP load again thinking maybe I clicked the wrong thing but other instructions came up. Sigh. I got here in less than a minute. I hope things work okay from now on. If I disappear (again) know that everything is okay with me. I've just got a technical problem.