How Dangerous is Tampering with the Registry?

October 29th, 2008 at 06:46pm Under Main Content

Unfortunately, registry problems are that much trickier to deal with and you’ll find that a lot of the time, even though you’ve removed a program, it still leaves some stray references in the core file of Windows files. This is a primary cause for a large number of registry problems.  Nowadays with very technical scanning software, you can easily fix registry problems within short time.  The primary reason to fix registry problems is so you won’t get to the point that your system will no longer run at all.  Then it may be too late.  All that is probably needed is a good registry scan software and you are good to go.

Problems with the Windows™ registry are a common cause of Windows™ crashes, slow performance and error messages. By using a registry cleaner regularly and fixing registry errors your system should not only be more stable but it will also help improve your system performance without expensive hardware upgrades. What this means is, before you go out and spend money on memory, try cleaning the registry first.  It’s a cheap way to find out if that is all you need.  Some people report that their computer has stopped crashing and is running at least 3 times faster than before.  And those are pretty typical results. By using registry cleaners regularly your system should not only be more stable but it will run faster.

Because of poorly written or corrupted device drivers, bad memory or a memory conflict causing a crash, a damaged registry, or conflicting dll’s – most people would fault the PC in whole – when it is most likely the registry area. In Windows versions 95,98, and ME you may also get a message stating that there was a virtual device driver crash and it will give you the option to restart your computer. These errors that cause crashing, slowness, instability are generally because of registry problems. And it’s a quick fix – run the diagnostics tool, identify the precise problems in your Windows registry so you can determine exactly what your PC is suffering from. Any error or corruption of registry files can cause crash of the system or halt the system from time to time.

Eventually, when you don’t fix a slow or corrupt PC, it get relegated to the corner, or the kids work area and you buy something new.  This is really a crime because registrys can be fixed and since they are only lines of code – they can be rewritten, or changed.  Back in the day, we were bold and attempted to change registry settings ourselves – with some guides printed out from the Internet.  But I can remember more than once crippling my computer to a stand still.  Those were the days when if it didn’t work, you simply reinstalled Windows.

I guess what I’m trying to get at, is that you no longer have to go the road of trying and further frustrating yourself with a hack at your precious registry.  Someone got smart and created software that first analyzes the settings in the registry.  Then it tells you what it will do if you would like it to repair what it believes are errors.  And someone was even sharp enough to create a registry backup before committing to changes.  Man, I wish I would have thought of that!

So if you have been wondering if registry repair software is something you should try, yes – I’m going to recommend them to you.  Simply because you can always revert.

Registry Easy backups

As you can see, each time you run your registry cleaner, the registry does get backed up – not overwritten.  This is very important, because there are some registry cleaners that actually overwrite the backed-up entry, each time.  You don’t want that, because then you can only go back to the bad state you had before you started.  You want to be able to go back from the first time you ran the software.

If you have any questions about registry cleaning and optimizing, simply drop me an email in our Contact Page.  And thank you for your visit.  I trust you learned something useful.

By Dave Jackson Comments

Easy Repair for the Blue Screen of Death – BSOD

October 26th, 2008 at 08:25am Under Main Content

The blue screen of death, also known as the blue screen of doom or simply blue screen, is one of the most notorious error messages in Windows based operating systems. To fix blue screen errors, you can safely assume that there’s something going seriously wrong in your operating system.

Despite so many versions of Windows, BSOD still exists so it’s a useful feature. The bugs are scattered quite liberally in most of Microsoft’s operating systems, so the BSOD, an error reporting system as well as an end to all your current work is in fact a feature. BSOD is closely tied with Microsoft’s operating systems. Due to large number of system bugs, a blue screen can appear freezing basic operations, an application’s work, or even with no occasion, decreasing system’s functionality, or permanently hanging it at. I have almost never (either with my own machines or at work) seen a BSOD that wasn’t caused by faulty hardware driver.

Many times after a computer crash, your PC will boot into “safe mode” which is a troubleshooting version of Windows (only the most essential drivers and software are loaded). While in safe mode, run both a virus and spyware scan. In some cases, the blue screen is caused by failed hardware or corrupt hardware drivers (the software that makes hardware devices or components interact properly with your computer). In some cases, the blue screen can be caused by memory problems.

These error messages often reference missing files or “runtime” errors. Using an efficient registry cleaner, you can defragment the registry to remove all registry holes to make it compact, and re-index registry files to considerably improve data access time.

System or Windows performance will decrease after quite some time due to the software installation and uninstallation by users. System or Windows registry will be overwrite once any software being install or uninstall, if installation or uninstallation was perform in proper way, the performance of the system or Windows will be effected. Problems with the Windows registry are a common cause of Windows crashes, slow performance and error messages. By using a registry cleaner regularly and fixing registry errors your system should not only be more stable but it will also help improve your system performance without expensive hardware upgrades. During the normal operation of a Windows system, registry data is constantly being written to and removed from the registry. Over time this data becomes scattered within the registry file and when information is deleted from the registry holes are left which fragment the data within the registry.

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A Review of Registry Cleaners

October 23rd, 2008 at 12:36pm Under Main Content

Registry cleaners are a widely available utility that are relied upon to assist you in registry cleanup and fixes. With so many choices on the market it can be difficult to decide which utility should is the best for your needs. Registry cleaners are usually based on one of two scanning techniques? Smart and Safe and Bulk and Deep. The registry cleaners using the Smart and Safe technique take utmost care to report only genuine errors. Registry cleaners are designed to scan your computer and to find all the useless files that are causing your computer to become slow. The software then either deletes or move the files to a more appropriate place.

Registry cleaners are excellent solutions to a slow PC; it checks, re-organises, de-fragments and cleans your registry of everything that is slowing it, and ultimately your PC down. Wave goodbye to a slow PC and who would have known it – it was all down to the registry. And, to be honest, registry cleaners are unlikely to do any damage. Naturally you should take care to always be backed up properly, but unless you explicitly select advanced or aggressive options meant for the more advanced (or aggressive) users, you’re unlikely to hurt anything with one of the recommended registry cleaners. Some free registry cleaners are even worse, they start the cleaning process off, delete some files and stop half way through and make you buy the software anyways and if you don’t you will be in trouble! I searched for the best registry cleaners software also and i found many but I only chosen and reviewed the best 3 that do actually work and are Windows XP and Vista friendly!

Most people I know use registry cleaners as part of their magic cleanup routine, and I see very little upside and a lot of potential downside in this sort of routine use. Specifically, as I write below, I have never seen any evidence that routine “cleaning” of the registry has any positive effect. Over time, the Registry gets loaded down with useless or erroneous entries left by incomplete uninstall routines, application errors, and even misapplied tweaks. Problems also arise when users move files without realizing that dozens of Registry entries point to the old location. In their dev and test routines they may install and uninstall the same software hundreds of times, and each time they need to be sure to remove all artifacts of the prior install, including registry entries. In this case, a registry cleaner may be justified – though most of the folks I know will write a script which specifically strips out the registry entries used by the program they are testing.

Over time, the Windows Registry can begin to contain information that’s no longer valid. Maybe you uninstalled an application without using the Add or Remove Programs function in the Control Panel, or perhaps an object or file in the registry got moved. Windows stores references to each font in the registry. If the registry is not cleaned regularly, Windows font reference data can become jumbled and start showing different font faces than you plan. Let’s say your current Windows Registry is corrupt and you only have a backup that is dated two years ago. Open Registry Drill and have it load your backup file and have the Drill make you a repair file.

Windows provides a number of resource hogging and interesting visual effects like animated windows and fading menus. These effects, however, can slow down your computer and kill your PC speed. The Windows Registry is a crucial part of your PC’s operation system. Regular use of computer makes the registry fragmented and cluttered with obsolete and invalid data. A computer’s Windows Operating system is composed entirely of its registry. When the registry needs to be cleaned, the computer’s performance starts to suffer.

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