Registry Clean and Repair

If you suspect that your PC would benefit from a registry clean then you might be wondering how to do it? Here are the easy steps to fixing your PC:

• First use System Restore to set a restore point. It is very unlikely that you will have to go back to this but it could be handy. In XP you can find this within Accessories/System Tools. In Vista, just type sysdm.cpl
• Second, get yourself a registry cleaner program (free scan below). The best ones will also have an additional backup feature and will then deep scan your entire registry and fix the problems that it finds (which it will!).

If you use a registry cleaner program then you’ll find that there is no need to tinker manually with the registry anmore (that’s if you’re experienced enough to do so anyway).

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Below is an article by leading registry expert, George Tho. If you are experiencing slow Windows 7 problems right now then the best thing to do is immediately run a free scan. Scroll down and click the big blue free scan button right now or click here now otherwise you’ll only have more slowdown in the very near future.

Are you experiencing Windows 7 slow down? Do you want to speed it up? If so, then let’s find out more about Windows 7 first.

Windows 7 is fast approaching. Microsoft verifies that they’ll be launching Windows 7 next year. Currently, they are giving everyone a taste of Windows 7. They’ll let you download the Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) for free. This is used for Beta testing the product. And right now, many people are using it. You can also try it for yourself.

Why use Windows 7? If you’re into something new, Windows 7 has lots to offer. Windows 7’s taskbar is like no other. All you’ll see on the taskbar is the icon of the application open. You’ll also get more visual delights when you try flipping the windows opened. Also, Windows 7 is a lot faster than Vista, so you should really try it.

Before installing Windows 7 in your computer, make sure your computer meets the system requirements:

• 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

• 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)

• 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)

• DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

If your computer meets the requirements, then there should be no problem installing it. But there are a lot of people who said that Windows 7 is slow. How can you fix this slow down problem? Let’s find out.

One thing you can do to solve the Windows 7 slow down problem is to see if there are a lot of programs that runs automatically when Windows 7 starts up. This slows down your computer. Click start, then run and then type “msconfig”. Press enter. Look for the list of startup programs. Remove those programs that you don’t want to run on startup.

Another thing that you can do to solve the Windows 7 slow down problem is to clean the windows registry. You can download registry cleaners for Windows 7 on the internet.

Perhaps the best thing you can do to solve the slow down problem is to download and install the Process Explorer. This tool is a part of the Microsoft SysInternals package. This program will help you identify the programs running on your computer. It will even give a brief description of that program, so that you’ll know which to remove. Remove the program by right clicking it, and then select “KILL”. This program works just like the Task Manager, but gives you more information and has a better design.

After doing all these three methods, the Windows 7 slow down problem should be solved.

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Do you have multiple users on the same computer? This is more common in the corporate rather than the home environment although often you will have a family of several people sharing the same PC.

When I used to work in a large office, frequently we would get people who needed a program to be configured the same as a colleague – often these were totally new employees.

So we would basically copy the registry from one user’s PC to the other.

Now this is all well and good in most cases where software configuration is stored under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE.

Unfortunately, many programs also store configuration data on a per user basis. So it would be stored under HKEY_CURRENT_USER.

Example Copying Of Registry Data

Let’s say that Bob is an old employee and logged in. Chad is the new guy. Of course when they are both logged in separately then you can easily copy from one machine to another. Just use the “Connect Network Registry Option” and it’s very easy.

But sometimes you need to copy registry data when someone is not logged in. If they’re not logged in then their data won’t be stored under HKEY_CURRENT_USER. So what do you do then?

HKEY_USERS

Registry data for anyone who has logged in before is stored under HKEY_USERS (incidentally, in the corporate environment this is one reason for a bloated registry because sometimes 100 people may have logged onto the same machine in the past).

If you expand this part of the registry then there will be a number of weird SIDs that Windows uses to identify different users.  Some are filled with nothing. You can easily find the one for the user you need by just expanding all the trees.

To check the login name, just right-click and go to Properties and you can see which usernames have properties to modify their own registry data.

Well I hope that this helped. If it did or you have any other questions then please just leave a comment. Cheers.

In case you’ve been stuck underground the last 6 months, Windows are soon to launch yet another operating system on the market.

Why? Because few people have been choosing to buy Vista and most using it have simply bought a new PC or laptop in the last few months that came with Vista on it.

But even more so than when XP was released, Vista looks like a bunch of gimmicks to slow down your PC and does not really add anything. Little wonder then that so many people are sticking with XP and a few are even downgrading to XP.

It’s not just regular Joes either – hardly any corporations are wanting to go to Vista either.

Hence Windows 7, but what about the registry?

Windows 7 Registry Problems?

From what has been seen so far, Windows 7 is going to demand a lot of your hardware so would already slow down a computer that runs it, in comparison to XP for example. But what about Windows 7 registry problems?

Unfortunately, it looks like registry problems are still abound in Windows 7: over time the registry will still become extremely bloated and prone to corruption.

OK, at the time of writing, Windows 7 is not yet out. But just take a look at this article by Paul McFedries, a sample chapter from the book “Microsoft Windows 7 Unleashed”. It seems like the registry is the same as it has always been with the same problems too.

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The Windows Registry should normally not be tinkered with. When professionals say that they mean it, because even they have probably screwed something up in the past. The Registry instantly saves any changes but unlike a Word document, for example, few people save the registry before making changes because it takes so damn long to do so!

That said, it is definitely worth learning about the registry and also the power of .reg files. So what are they?

.REG – The Format

These files are recognised by Windows operating systems to be registry files. Although they look like Notepad files, do not be deceived into clicking them. As soon as you do, the changes will be applied to the Registry.

The easiest way to understand .reg files is to make one yourself. Open up the Registry Editor and find a hive.

e.g. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer.

Now, right-click “Internet Explorer” and click on “Export”. Save it wherever you like – it should be automatically with the “.reg” extension.

Now open up Notepad and then open this file you have saved with the .reg extension (or you can try just right-clicking it and clicking the “Edit” option if it appears). It should look something like this (I have only shown a portion for legibility):

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer]
“Build”=”86001″
“Version”=”8.0.6001.18702″
“W2kVersion”=”8.0.6001.18702″
@=”"
“IntegratedBrowser”=dword:00000001
“MkEnabled”=”Yes”

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AboutURLs]
“DesktopItemNavigationFailure”=”res://ieframe.dll/navcancl.htm”
“NavigationFailure”=”res://ieframe.dll/navcancl.htm”
“NavigationCanceled”=”res://ieframe.dll/navcancl.htm”
“OfflineInformation”=”res://ieframe.dll/offcancl.htm”
“Home”=dword:0000010e
“blank”=”res://mshtml.dll/blank.htm”
“PostNotCached”=”res://ieframe.dll/repost.htm”
“InPrivate”=”res://ieframe.dll/inprivate.htm”
“NoAdd-ons”=”res://ieframe.dll/noaddon.htm”
“NoAdd-onsInfo”=”res://ieframe.dll/noaddoninfo.htm”
“SecurityRisk”=”res://ieframe.dll/securityatrisk.htm”
“Tabs”=”res://ieframe.dll/tabswelcome.htm”

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX Compatibility]
“Version”=”6.17″

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\UnattendBackup\ShowStatusBar]
“StatusBarWeb”=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\UnattendBackup\SmallCommandBarIcons]
“SmallIcons”=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\URL Compatibility]
“Version”=”5.1″

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\URL Compatibility\~/CONNWIZ.HTM]
“Compatibility Flags”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\URL Compatibility\~/CWIZINTR.HTM]
“Compatibility Flags”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Version Vector]
“VML”=”1.0″
“IE”=”8.0000″

You can see that the format is quite easy to read. Apart from the first identifying line, the rest of this file is simply referring to Registry hives and keys and their values.

Importing .Reg Files

.Reg files can be used to import registry settings. Although you can actually do this via the Registry Editor, it is far easier to just double-click the .reg file instead.

For example, if you went ahead and deleted the “Internet Explorer” part of your Registry right now then simply by double-clicking the .reg file then you would restore all your settings.

You can even keep multiple .reg files for the purposes of having different registry configurations although any application that forces you to do this is poorly programmed and should have allowed this to happen via the application itself.

Other Tricks

You can even use a .reg file to delete portions of the registry and do many other powerful functions. More on this in a later post. I hope you enjoyed so far learning about the Windows Registry.

90% of the time, I do not recommend editing the registry yourself. For example, if your PC is very slow, delayed or otherwise has some other performance issue then I recommend getting a good registry cleaner (see the free scan below).

BUT if you have a Microsoft Office problem that seems very small or generic in nature, then you might want to try the below fix (close all other programs first).

Microsoft Office Registry Key Fix

• Open the Registry Editor by going to Start Button, Run, then type “regedit”.
• Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, Software, Microsoft, Office.
• Now here you will see many different version numbers. The easiest way to find out which version you have is to expand the folders and see which has the most configuration data within  it. In my case it’s folder “12.0″ which corresponds to the 2007 version of Office that I’m using. But I didn’t know that before I checked.
• Rename the appropriate folder (for me it would be the “12.0″ folder) as something else e.g. “old 12.0″.
• Now close Registry Editor and relaunch Office, you may see a few status messages.

This trick doesn’t work for everything but it does help with some small MS Office problems. I still recommend that you perform a full registry scan using a good third party program like the free registry scan below.

Here is an extensive list of blue screen error codes. If you have any codes to add to the list, please leave a comment using the form at the end of this post. Thanks.

Stop 0×0000000A or IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

Stop 0×0000001E or KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED

Stop 0×00000024 or NTFS_FILE_SYSTEM

Stop 0×0000002E or DATA_BUS_ERROR

Stop 0×0000003F or NO_MORE_SYSTEM_PTES

Stop 0×00000050 or PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

Stop 0×00000077 or KERNEL_STACK_INPAGE_ERROR

Stop 0×00000079 or MISMATCHED_HAL

Stop 0×0000007A or KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR

Stop 0×0000007B or INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

Stop 0×0000007F or UNEXPECTED_KERNEL_MODE_TRAP

Stop 0×0000009F or DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE

Stop 0xBE or ATTEMPTED_WRITE_TO_READONLY_MEMORY

Stop 0xC2 or BAD_POOL_CALLER

Stop 0×000000CE or DRIVER_UNLOADED_WITHOUT
_CANCELLING_PENDING_OPERATIONS

Stop 0×000000D1 or DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

Stop 0×000000EA or THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER

Stop 0×000000ED or UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME

Stop 0xC0000221 or STATUS_IMAGE_CHECKSUM_MISMATCH

In many of the above cases, you may have a hard disk that is on its way out. The hard disk can be scanned and the bad sectors kept aside. Then you can fix the registry using a registry cleaner (see free scan below).

For a more detailed article on this entire process, see my recent article here: Registry Error – Blue Screen XP.

The XP blue screen of death as it is commonly known can arise for a number of reasons. Usually, maybe 80% of the time, it is due to a hardware or driver problem.

But in a few cases, the error message shown mentions the registry. e.g. “Registry Error”. So what can you do?

Rule Out Hardware

Even when the registry is mentioned, whilst you are most likely to have a corrupt registry (which we will soon fix), you may actually have a hard disk failure. What you need to do is to try and scan the disk first for errors. There is a guide from Microsoft on how to do this in XP here.

Cannot Start The Computer

In the worst case scenario, you won’t even be able to start the computer or it will quickly go into a cyclical loop of rebooting to the blue screen. In this case you need to try to enter the PC in safe mode by pressing F5 or F8 while Windows is starting. Just press them both a few times when the PC boots up and you will be allowed to choose safe mode.

Hopefully this will work for you and you can avoid the blue error screen and run the disk scan above.

Fix The Registry

Probably you will not have a hard disk failure. If you do, either it will not work at all or it will continue to work for some time, albeit with bad sectors. But don’t worry, as long as you ran the hard drive scan earlier then any bad sectors of the disk will be “marked” so that they can no longer be used. I still advise you to buy a new hard disk in the next few days or weeks though because bad sectors are usually a sign of imminent total disk failure!

Now, assuming there is no HD or other hardware problem, we need to fix the registry. The only way to do this is with a registry scanner. Sadly, the blue screen XP registry error does not give you anywhere near the level of information required to go in and do a manual fix.

Use a registry scanner (see free scan below) to first detect all of your registry errors. You are likely to have many more than the one that caused this blue screen, each of which has the potential to cause yet more blue screens in future. Secondly, push a button to fix all the errors (or you can optionally choose which ones to fix and which not to fix if you so wish).

Finally, regular use of a registry cleaner on a weekly basis will prevent getting blue screen error messages for the future.

One of the worst types of Windows errors that you can get is called a “physical memory dump error”. It’s basically a form of the widely known Windows Blue Screen of Death (a.k.a. BSOD).

The worst thing about these error messages is that it can be difficult to locate the real underlying cause of the problem.

Hardware

This is unfortunately a major possibility. Most of the time, a BSOD is caused by a hardware problem, but NOT always.

You need to ask yourself questions about when the error occurs, to see if you can via a process of elimination work out if hardware could be a problem. For example, if you get this physical memory dump error very often, regardless of whether you are playing games, using a spreadsheet or surfing the web then it could be your hard disk. Use the free disk scanning utility that comes installed with Windows XP to find out.

Software

You could run a full scan of your hard disk and other components but still not find the cause of the physical memory dump error.

Whilst most of the time there is a hardware fault or problem, this can also occur due to an invalid, bad or corrupt registry. A software problem is also a possibility (I take it for granted that you have tried reinstalling the application, if it is only this one that is in use when the error occurs) – for example, a shared driver used by many programs could be corrupt – but knowing which driver is the problematic one is not an easy task without assistance.

Tools

For such a Windows blue screen error as this, it is worth using the services of a registry scanner. The name is a bit of a misnomer as these applications do not just scan for common registry errors but are also able to detect and fix DLL errors, runtime errors, freezing issues, all BSOD issues, hardware malfunctions (detect only), driver error and more.

Thanks to our partner, Registry Easy, you can make use of a free scan facility below: