Hello Jephree,

You are without doubt the ultimate helper for we nincompoops on this forum. However, may I ask you why you do not agree with us buying Registry Fixing software?

Very few of us I imagine, know little about the Registry and how, or why, it fills itself up with countless bits of information, some of which may be repeated and perhaps almost useless.

The Registry over time must become cluttered and almost unmanageable, and occasionally it ought to be cleaned out! But how may I ask, without some serious help!

If only Microsoft provided a free Registry cleaner?

regards

grimerz

Jephree, You are without doubt the ultimate helper....

Whether or not a 'clean' registry provides any noticeable end user advantage is questionable and opinionated.

Many commercial products corrupt the registry more that they help it. Norton for example.

These 'tools' are geared towards a very novice public in order to sell unnecessary software. My opinion of course.

That being said I do clean my registry and also quite often do it manually as well.

Registry Cleaners:
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The Registry is constantly changing as you use your computer. Many temporary settings are recorded so having a recurrence of errors is not uncommon. Rather it is common. Unused file extensions or MRU entries will always recur.

That being said: the first time that you ever use a cleaner you will probably get several hundred hits.

If you cleanup regularly you will always find some.

Cleaners vary on how deep they dig.

I use this freeware which is a moderate digger:

RegSeeker

A deep digger is jv 16 PowerTools

The current version needs to be purchased but you can still get the old freeware version here:

jv16 PowerTools - OldVersion.com

Before using any cleaner you should back up your registry.

ERUNT is a great free tool for that (NTREGOPT is an optimiser or like a defrag for the registry):

[ERUNT] Registry Backup and Restore for Windows
ERUNT and NTREGOPT


[ERUNT Download URLs]
http://www.aumha.org/downloads/erunt.zip
http://www.aumha.org/downloads/erunt-setup.exe


[Installing & Using ERUNT]
Take a complete registry backup using ERUNT
http://www.silentrunners.org/sr_eruntuse.html
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-on...runt/erunt.txt


Hope this helps.

Id recommend CCleaner.

Thank you very much for the reply. Dan, I think that you too are an ultimate helper!

regards

grimerz

Well Thank You but I didn't post to steal thunder nor look for recognition. I just happen to fully agree with your opening sentance. Sometimes I think jephree was one of the software developers/engineers on XP as he knows it so well, and I also think he doesn't sleep and he's hardwired into XP. ;>)

Hopefully for us, I do agree.

regards

grimerz