Bernice: Thank you very much! they do seem to have a pretty good deal! Will browse a little thoroughly over it! Thanks!

Hi!
I have a question regarding internet domains: does anybody know any sites where I can get (buy) an own domain for a webpage (it will be a webpage for a model agency), and such that the price-performance ratio is good? Thank you very much in advance for any input!!

Jason, BBW, Baked Alaskan: Thanks for the tips and help. I've fixed the registry problems (through Registry Doctor), and it was a mess.. but still the screen freezes so that was not the problem. I'm login to the internet through a putty-tunneling-connection, I am thinking that may be the case (but otherwise, my LAN seemed to be down ever so often and have been lazy to set it back - i guess I'll have to give that a try also!).

Registry Mechanic, small programm that fixes some problems and asks for registration to fix the remaining ones. Good thing is that it identifies the exact location, so that you can fix them manually later on. For anybody interested in such things! :-)

BIG BAD WOLF: thank you very much for the link and information! I'll download it and check out what is going with the PC. I'll do it within tonight and tomorrow: there is another debugging to be done here at home that has at the moment higher priority (laundry )

Is there a way to say what programs still have left stuff in the registry that may be slowing the pc down (other than spyware)? The reason is that I feel that I haven't installed too many new things on my PC and it did run smoothly for most of the time before recently (maybe a month or two ago).

Fencer: I just found that there were two "java updates" (J2SE Runtime environment 5.0 Update 6 and Update 8) installed on my PC (actually, also a notebook :) ), plus a third thing called "java 2 runtime environment SE v.1.4.2_03". I uninstalled the "Update 6" (maybe there was a conflict), but nothing happened (nothing good or bad... which appears to make the update 6 unnecessary!). Do you also have these freezes or do you just want to buy a 2GB RAM new one? Because if you don't have them, I'm sure you can give us some good advice (other than reinstalling everything ) on what we could do to have more memory or what we could check! :-)

Does anybody have experience on dealing with the PC freezing for a couple of seconds (everything freezes, music, mouse, etc) and then continuing at precisely where it got caught up before the freeze? I have both Spybot and Ad-Aware, use Mozilla, have enough space on my hard disk and also 512 MB RAM (which should be enough), but also a history in Spyware on my PC (maybe the registries are still affected?). I notice that it usually has some problems with Java-based applications. And hints/suggestions on what to do? (already defragmented, and cleared up space with the Win XP features).

Thanks!