Get help, advice and information on all your Computers and Technology issues. http://advice-and.info/Computers-and-Technology/registry.htm Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:49:05 GMT en Diagnosing the Brain: Your Computer's Registry Many of us use our computers every day, unaware of the daily assaults they endure from adding and deleting files and programs or simply surfing the internet. Every action a computer does requires accessing its registry, and over time, these actions begin to affect the computer's ability to read its internal registry, which is kind of like an inventory of all the information on your computer that tells it how to run files and programs. Your computer constantly modifies that registry to account for any changes you make whether its saving a one-page word document or doing some major programming. If enough changes are made, you may find that your computer's basic functions have been affected. It may run a little slower, display strange error messages, fail to end programs successfully, or even be unable to run at all. Many people have computer problems that are rooted in the registry, but few know what to do to remedy the problem. Delete it, or Scrub it Clea n? Fixing Computer Registry Errors Because the registry is such a sensitive and vital part of your computer's operation, it takes a skilled technician to correctly clean it, and it can take such a specialist several hours, or even days, to inventory a whole file directory. For this reason, many people prefer to reformat the hard drive entirely, even going as far as reinstalling the operating system. Although this fix is pretty much always effective, it is very time consuming because it requires backing up all the files and programs on your computer first. Of course, it is easy to forget to back up a file, but almost impossible to get it back once the reformat is complete, so before you set out to completely wipe and reinstall your hard drive, you might want to consider other options. While it takes the most capable computer technician much time to manually inspect and correct a registry, there are software programs that do this job automatically and in half the time. These programs, called registry cl http://advice-and.info/Computers-and-Technology/87977_Registry_Cleaners_And_You.html Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:04:15 GMT It is true that some Registry cleaners are truly is more aggressive than others, digging deeper and looking in more places for more kinds of errors. You may have tried to run a few different registry cleaners and one tool might report 18 errors while another might report 800 errors. The question is, do registry software vendors develop software that is fudges numbers and over-reporting errors to make financial gain. I decided to investigate further. I ran a test using the Top Ten most popular rated registry cleaners on the market.The top ten registry cleaners chosen for the test were PcOptimizerPro, Xp Repair Pro, Error Doctor, Registry Fix, Error Nuker, Registry tool kit, Registry Medic, Bug Doctor and Ace Utilities. I installed a fresh copy of windows XP Pro on a computer system. The system was fully up to date with all patches and updates for XP. No Registry-cleaner software had been used on the system, and so no errors or debris should have accumulated in the Registry since the original installation of XP was still there. I installed and ran one cleaner at a time, with a reboot between each run. I made a note of the number of Registry errors the software found. I was shocked at the results. Each registry cleaner found ridiculous amounts of errors, some cleaners in excess of 500 errors. You might wonder what was going on: Why should registry-cleaning softwares find errors on a brand new computer syst http://advice-and.info/Computers-and-Technology/85077_Registry_Software_Vendors_Play_Numbers_Games.html Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:36:30 GMT Not many people know what the registry in a computer means, yet it does not rule it out from being the most important part of the computer. It can be considered as the heart of the windows system and contains information that controls the appearance and behavior of the system. Installing or uninstalling programs will never escape the entries of the registry and due to the immense workload placed upon it, the registry often becomes overloaded. At the end of it all the system crashes but not if we can help it. We can overcome this crisis through purchasing something called the registry cleaner software. However, you must take note to get the one with the best features. As all of them are mostly free of charge, you have to look closely to determine which is the one that really stands out. It is almost predictable that a windows user would have to buy this as prevention from their PCs from crashing since almost all windows users experience the decline of their PCs performance due to registry error problems. T hus, to be able to have the free registry repair kit, it will be able to fix any problems in your computer that you can solve by yourself. http://advice-and.info/Computers-and-Technology/82838_Windows_Registry_Fix_For_Free.html Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:47:32 GMT Looking for the quickest way to repair your registry problems? You can easily acquire the free windows registry tools online to help you with problems pertaining to an overloaded registry. But how do you know which one are the effective ones or are you able to trust then when they say its free and still effective? In our fast-paced world, we do not have much time to dawdle around to try to repair our registry problems by ourselves. We now want to have an instant solution to our registry problems and we can do that now. With free windows registry repair kits, you no need to look further to find a cleaner for your registry. The only difference is whether the different kinds of repair kits differ in effectiveness? Basically it boils down to what kind of features they possess. Those that cost quite a bit actually do contain much more, but unfortunately, you would not be using them at all, as such why waste money paying more for things you have no need of? Also, spyware and adware detectors are often placed together with these free trails for registry repair kits. Seriously speaking, you would not want any thing else but just to repair you registry and get it over and done with. Try looking for those which just allows you to download the repair kit only and they normally install very fast and are clean and small so they do not take much space in your hard drive at all. By doing this, you save cash and at the same time ensure that you are maintaining your computer at its maximum capacity and you will thus kill two birds with one stone. http://advice-and.info/Computers-and-Technology/82537_Free_Windows_Registry_Fix_-_Can_You_Trust_Them.html Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:09:10 GMT Have you ever wondered why, after using your new PC for a few weeks or so, it becomes visibly slower with your continued use? That is because when your computer was still new, its Windows registry was still clean. All the data stored in your Windows registry consist only of the pre-installed programs in your PC. As you continue to use your computer, all your activities on the computer are reflected in your Windows registry. Eventually, your Windows registry becomes bloated, causing your computer to slow down. When this happens, you would need to download a registry fix from websites such as http:www.registryrepairzone.com, and then conduct a registry scan to fix your computers registry errors, or else you will end up with an irreparably damaged machine. http://advice-and.info/Computers-and-Technology/76203_Always_Use_A_Registry_Repair_Tool_To_Fix_Your_Registry_Errors.html Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:22:36 GMT