Most registry cleaners that you see advertised on the web have allot of
false claims to make you download a free trial which will show many
errors but will not fix them unless you buy the full program.

Most of these registry cleaner when used to fix errors will probably
leave you worse off then when you first started and will sometimes
completely corrupt your whole registry usually only leaving you the
option of a restore or a complete reinstall.

The most likely cause of your problem would be some sort of Malware or
Virus that might be slowing things down.

Does your friend have decent virus protection and firewall I would
suggest using Avast for your virus software and COMODO firewall, that's
what I am using and have not had any problems with it.

It may also be some sort of hardware related driver issue or a program
incompatibility, and if he is using allot of apps that might also slow
down his system depending on the processor and amount of memory he has
installed.

Just because he has allot of hard drive space free doesn't mean he
can't still have allot of programs running and some programs can use
allot more memory than others, a good program to have is CCleaner as you
can go to Tools and stop programs you don't want to start when windows
starts.

Here are the programs that try to start on my computer and you can see
what I have disabled.


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