is there a program that lets me clear out my unneeded registry files? thanks

sure there is
RegCleaner is freeware and very good
http://www.webmasterfree.com/regcleaner.html

I use RegVac (http://www.regvac.com/). It's also very good and very free!

oh yeah?! well I'll make RegCleaner even more free by releasing 700 identical copies of it over p2p cunningly disquised in an image file of Windows Longhorn NEW.iso

I've never used those softwares (freewares?).... I always mess up directly with regedit, and haven't encountered a serious disaster...

And by the way...... why the ad war? :rolleyes:

each has to stand for his favourite software! //sneers
with RegCleaner it's a lot easyer to get the picture of what you have than with regedit