Registry Clean and Repair

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.

Fix Any [...]

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Unfortunately when it comes to registry cleaners there is a great mix from good to bad to scams to great.
Our review team has bench tested over 20 registry cleaners against criteria of Features, Ease of Use, Effectiveness and Support, and below you can see the results of our analysis and our overall picks for Top [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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
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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

How to [...]

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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 [...]

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There are two main ways to speed up XP shutdown time. One requires manually editing the registry, the other is much simpler.
Registry Edit
Be warned, if you’ve never edited your registry before then you should know that one wrong move and you may not be able to restart your PC successfully!
OK, this works because as your [...]

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When you own a PC, you must take some responsibility for fixing the errors on it. Sure, you can call Tech Support. But you’ll save a ton of time and money if you just learn the basics of how to fix PC errors and general easy maintenance.
3 Main Threats
The main threats to your PC (apart [...]

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Windows has long been notorious for taking a while to load. When XP came out (or rather when 2000 came out) this problem was solved somewhat. Bootup can now take place in as little as 30 seconds or less if you know how to speed up Windows startup.
But that experience is shortlived as soon as [...]

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