The windows registry is one of if not the most important component of your windows operating system(OS). Because of this it must be clean and free of errors for your PC to run smooth and error free.
In this article there are some best practices and guidelines to repairing the windows registry.
First thing you should know is that manually editing the registry is not for the average user, there are hundreds of thousands of entries in the windows registry and changing or deleting the wrong one can cause your PC to stop booting forever.
If you have manually edited the windows registry and now you cannot boot your PC only choice may be to re-install windows, if that does not work you may have to wipe your hard drive and start fresh, this can be a major pain trying to find all the drivers and support software for your system.
Assuming you have not manually edited your registry, the next thing you should know is that there are a ton of different registry repair software tittles available on the market.
To really get things done in windows requires a multi pronged approached. If I want to clean the adware or spyware off of my system You have to use three different programs, Adaware, Spybot S&D, and Spyware blaster. Run them one at a time and then follow their instructions.
Use this same rule for the Registry Three different programs that all do the same thing but in different ways. The reason this is necessary is because windows is so complex and so is the registry, one piece of software may not find things another will, If after running the third piece of registry repair software it does not find anymore problems with your registry you can feel pretty good that your Windows registry of clean and error free.
Run the 1st piece of registry repair software, when it finds errors, and it will, select the fix option, or repair option, do NOT choose Delete. This forces the software to try to find solutions to the problems in your registry. Most Registry repair software will do the best it can to fix the problems and any it cant fix it will delete. Some will try to fix and then come back to the user with results of the repair/fix attempt and ask what to do with the errors it could not fix. At this point you would select delete.
Now run the second piece of registry repair software and do the same thing as before.
Now run the third registry repair software tittle and do the same thing as before.
At this point your registry is good to go and things should boot faster and have less errors.
One last thing, some Registry repair software has an option to do deep cleaning or aggressive search, It is not recommend these options as they may damage the registry, and we are trying to repair the registry.
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Friday, July 3, 2009
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