ZeeKoh

Ah, yes. The PEOPLE'S Republic of China. Hard at work for the people, naturally.

Technically this trial isn't even over yet, they had court sessions earlier THIS MONTH to decide on what the damages are. I think they still haven't settled it. And I'm not sure where you've heard that Limewire has been shut down, but you couldn't be more mistaken. Last I heard, Limewire has been working on a new subscription program, that is Cloud-based, for quite some time. As if they could ever shut down the Gnutella network. It's WAY bigger than Limewire. Limewire is just a head of one of billions of needles that make up the network. You're telling me they shut that down simply because Limewire's old program is "gone"? Ever heard of Frostwire? Think of it as the Limewire equivalent of what Kazaa Lite used to be to Kazaa. I would wager that not many users will be getting fined or having charges pressed against them, as well. Maybe some more severe cases where the person was acting as a HUB (sharing files) for illegal sharing, but that's about it. You have no idea how big Limewire was. They don't even have enough money or resources to hunt down everyone and search their computers for evidence that might not even be there. This isn't about people sharing music/programs illegally. It's about their money. And they aren't about to waste all of the money they're getting from this case on pennies. If you would have but read a little on the matter, you would know that there is hardly ANY talk of prosecuting ANY users of Limewire. In fact, Limewire has been taking the FULL beating of it's users illegal activities. The prosecution was actually trying to hold Limewire responsible for EACH individual act of illegality that it's users have performed. Meaning that Limewire was going to be sued in place of the individual users, but for the same grand total. Luckily for them, they are only being sued for a single award per each infringed work. Apparently the number of direct infringers will be a factor in deciding how much will be paid from each infringed work. So, basically your whole post was wrong or inaccurate. You can still use Limewire. They ARE still a company. You CAN safely delete data so it can never be recovered. And chances are VERY likely that 99% of all Limewire users will go un-effected by all of this. In the grand scheme of things... NOBODY will be getting fined $3,000+ for this. You spread fear like FOX News. Could probably just toss it into a microwave. >.> Precisely.

That, or, the supposed "Pro" is hacking too, and knows that only his hacks are beatable with other hacks. My skepticism runs rampant.

Properly defragging and cleaning your system registry CAN and WILL definitely make a very noticeable difference to system performance. The registry is a very large and complex place, and having empty registry keys will most certainly have an adverse effect on your system. Microsoft/Windows' tools suck, and so, the built in registry tool, which Windows uses to manage it's registry, sucks as well, and fails to maintain it properly. If your registry becomes cluttered up with too many uninstalled programs, orphaned startup tasks, corrupted drivers, spyware/adware entries, file paths for files that have been moved or deleted and many, many more things, you'll begin to notice a significant decrease in speed. If you fail to keep your registry clean, you WILL certainly notice your PC suddenly crashing, more and more, as your operating system becomes unstable. It's not a matter of whether or not this will happen to your PC. It's a matter of how much time, or use, it will take before it does. If you don't often install things, or you leave them installed, not moving any files around, and things like that, then you likely don't need your registry cleaned all that often. But if you're like any other average computer user, you download things at least on a bi-daily to weekly basis. Installing updates or new games or removing programs/games for extra space on your drive, copying/pasting files to different places on your drive.. all that jazz. Those people definitely should clean out their registry once in a while. Neglecting an over-cluttered, un-defragged registry will certainly make your OS slow to a crawl, and eventually, stop working or break. Regardless of how good your computer is.