Registry changes

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Second attempt to send this query. First time I didn`t see a Submit button ! I`m new to this.

I`m running an HP Pavilion T3640 desktop with XP Media Centre edition.

On my first Spybot scan I was told two or three times that there were registry changes and asked if I wanted to permit them or not. How should I know ? Registry`s a no-go area for all but PhD techies. Changes from what ? I allowed some and denied the rest.

Then at various subsequent times multiple oblong windowlets appeared at the right-hand side of the screen telling me repeatedly certain things were on my white list or black list. They seem to persist for a while. I haven`t found a button to click to remove them.

Later I changed my mind, found a window which allows changes, and denied the lot.

Anybody shed any light ?

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Thanks for swift and plain-English reply,Spybotsandra from Germany. Perfect English ! Gratuliere. I note your kind URLs but I think I`ll take md usa spybot fan`s hint and disable TeaTimer because I did OK without it till I loaded Spybot and because the word registry frightens me.

I`m always wishing someone would write an educated, numerate layman`s book of about 200 pages, plus big fat glossary, explaining how computers work. It shouldn`t be beyond the competence of a good teacher. I asked a Professor of computing in Cambridge and he said that the state of computer documentation is lamentable. Just so.


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