Registry

By admin on Dec 12, 2009 in Registry | 0 comments

Like the way that you rigorously clean your house on a Saturday morning, your computer too needed some cleaning from time to time. The problem is; window system is not available with any cleaning tool that can help you repair the registry because it is very complex that even the slightest change can create a big impact to the system. In order to save your neck from the trouble, there are registry cleaner tools that you can simply download and install on your system in order to do the needed registry maintenance. Registry cleaner tools are not something that you can brush off your shoulder since they are vital for the proper operation of your system. Do not worry if you are not proficient enough with computer activities and terms since most of these tools are GUI-based and provide a user-friendly interface so users won’t find them hard to operate. Even the options found of them are easy to use and they can automatically do the work after you do a simple click. They would also make use of advanced algorithms that would do a rigorous scan on your registry in order to get rid of errors that may take place within the registry. In order to show the problem, most registry cleaners especially those advanced kind would display the errors on the screen. They will also allow you to manually go through all of the errors and pick the particular one that you wish to repair. Just in case you are a little bothered about the entry that you wish to delete, then you can simply allow these tools to do an automatic scan and repair. Doing this will give you the chance to free yourself from the bothersome system errors that may occur most of the time, like Drive errors, DLL errors, ActiveX/COM errors, and runtime errors. You can as well free your mind from doing the critical decision of choosing which file you would like to delete since through the help of these registry cleaner tools, you are given the chance to backup and restore the whole or a part of the registry when needed. This feature is indeed very useful since only the affected parts...

By admin on Oct 13, 2009 in Registry | 0 comments

Computer crashes and Windows errors are the worst things that could happen to your computer. It is an unpleasant experience and not to mention costly and inconvenient. Computer technicians do not come cheap as well as computer parts. The good news is that such computer problems can be avoided with proper maintenance and prevention. You could be spared the loss of important files and cash by cleaning your operating system’s registry, where around 80% of computer problems start from. Computer registries cause problems when they overflow with unwanted data and information fed to it by the Internet. Users should therefore exercise utmost responsibility in their Internet surfing activities. The frequent installation and un-installation of applications, utilities, programs, and games can slow down your system. For every program or application you install, data is entered to your registry. They continue to accumulate as you keep on installing more programs. Your registry is bound to crash if you keep this up and do not remove unnecessary data as you go. It is also not advisable to remove programs without following the appropriate steps. If you try to remove programs incorrectly, there is a tendency to leave several “orphan registry keys, which also add to the size of information your registry is already carrying. Bulky programs such as Norton products come with hundreds of registry entries that using the correct removal tools would not suffice. Furthermore, when you remove entries from the registry, place holders or empty registry keys usually remain, not much help to reducing your registry size. Malicious spyware and viruses are also capable of inputting fallacious entries to your windows registry. They could even alter existing entries that cause errors in your system. Your PC system works by loading the registry into the hard disk. Each time you shut down, changes made to the registry are entered in the registry files in the physical memory. So when your system crashes, the registry files cannot be updated with the new data. This results in abrupt shutdowns and system crashes. Your registry also sustains damage. What to Do To make sure that your registry is clean and get peace of mind, take the following simple but often taken for granted steps....

By admin on Oct 13, 2009 in Registry | 0 comments

The Windows registry of any Windows Vista Computer is a directory containing all the options and settings set up on that particular PC. This registry is a hierarchial-based directory of thousands of keys grouped into sections known as hives. These hives are the HKEY_CURRENT_USER (HKCU), HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT (HKCR), HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (HKLM), HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT (HKCR), HKEY_USERS (HKU), HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (HKLM), and the HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG (HKCC). The first two hives the HKLM and HKU contain the true root entries or keys. The HKLM key contains all of the information that has something to do with the hard ware and the soft ware currently installed in your computer, while the information on user accounts implemented on your computer is saved in the HKU key. The HKCR hive contains information that concerns filetypes, extensions, URL protocol prefixes, and registered classes. All the data in the HKCR key is taken from these 2 keys”HKLMSOFTWAREClasses and HKCUSOFTWAREClasses. If both keys contain duplicate information, it is there in the HKCR. But if there are conflicting data in the two keys, then only the data in the HKCUSOFTWAREClasses is shown in the HKCR. The HKCU hive contains settings and user-based system information configured for the user who is currently logged on. Details like desktop settings, environment variables, available printers, folders and Control Panel configurations for the user currently logged on is shown in this hive. In reality however, there are no real information stored in the HKCU hive. Rather, it serves as a subkey to the HKU hive, which contains the actual information pertaining to that user. The HKCC hive consists of hardware configuration settings for the current user. Said key also lacks any exclusive data. No actual data stored in the HKCC hive; it serves as a subkey to the HKLM hive that contains the actual data. In addition, the information on this hive is not saved on disk; the information is being regenerated on boot time. In summary, the HKCR, HKLM, and HKCC hives are contain information which is more relevant for the user who is currently logged-on to the computer. The registry is continuously updated as additional keys are being entered by the system. Some of these keys are required by your PC; there are others which contain unnecessary...