>>RegClean 4.1 was toxic at best - it hosed NT 4 registries if you even mentioned
>>it within hearing distance of a machine that hadn't been backed up in a couple
>>of days. We've been very cautious about using 4.1a; so far, no problems that
>>I've encountered personally, but I make certain to run RDISK on NT boxes or ERU
>>on Win95/Win98 boxes so that if things do get hosed, I have the ability to go
>>back to where I started.
>
>Geez, couldn't you have posted this _before_ I hosed my setup? :-)
>

Why should you miss all the fun? ;-)

>It still mostly runs, but there is something somewhere that's seriously fried: there are two or three programs that just won't run (including the WinArch 2 sample test from Sybex: boy, am I glad I passed anyway... :-) )

You might try deinstalling and reinstalling applications that got hosed.