Don’t Know What a Windows Registry Scan Is? Neither Did I
Mar,14
at10:27 am
byadmin
When my brother gave me my first computer to say that I was a novice would have been a gross understatement. All I knew how to do was turning it on and access the word processing program I used. I had never heard of windows registry much less a windows registry scan. Once I connected to the Internet I noticed my computer started slowing down. I thought it was just those tracking cookies I kept hearing about. So I got a program that would get rid of them. It only solved part of my problem so I again started seeing problems developing on my computer.
I called my brother for some advice and he came over. He ran a windows registry scan and like magic my computer got better. I asked him what the registry was and he said it was kind of like the managing super visor of the windows operating system. He said it kept track of all the things I do on the computer. He tried to go in to some heavey details of how it worked but that was just over my head.
He told me that the reason my computer was slowing down and starting to develop problems was because the registry could get corrupted or keep useless information and thus the rest of the operating system would start slowing down.
He told me that the windows registry scan software he was using to clean up my registry used to be one of the tech repair guys secret weapons. They always knew about the registry getting over loaded and corrupted and they had this expensive software that could clean it up.
Luck of the non-techie computer user this software did not stay expensive, and only available to those that repaired computers. You can get windows registry scan software fairly inexpensive these days. You don’t even have to know much about how it works or exactly what it does. All you have to do in install it and run it on a regular basis. The windows registry scan program does all the work. It gets rid of unused pathways and cleans up a bunch of other things in the registry.
I suggest that if you have a computer that you connect to the Internet that you quickly get a windows registry scan program and set the schedule to run on a regular schedule. It will keep your computer running smoothly and give you one less thing to worry about.
Dave Porter
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BIG HUGE COMPUTER PROBLEM!!!!?
BEFORE I START!!!! I have 3 trojans but they are in quaritine and haven’t affected anything! Speed, pop-ups, nothing. As I said they are in quaritine.
Alright today I ran a System Mechanic 9 deep system scan analysis and found out I had 5 problems. I first removed system clutter. And it asked me to restart, so I did. Then I went to the next problem. Some Registry problems. I fixed that and it asked me to restart again. So I did.
There was an unknown program. So I removed it and restarted again. Went to the next problem which wanted me to scheduled a de-fragmentation of my computer. It said my computer was 100% fragmented
PAY ATTENTION!!!!
De-fragmentation I scheduled it and restarted my computer AND IT WOULDN’T WORK!!!! Well it kinda did. It brought me to a black screen stating (not the exact words but this is just a summary)
"We are sorry for the inconvenience, but windows failed to load. It may have been a power failure. You can either re-launch windows if you aren’t sure what the problem is. Or you can return your settings to the last time they worked."
I’ve tried to re-launch windows normally and it froze up on a black screen. I’ve done it a few times. Then i tried to return the settings to the last time it worked. Neither of them worked. Whichever option I chose it still freezes up on the black screen.
HELP!!! Since I scheduled the last De-fragmenting and restarted to reflect changes. It started freezing up. HELP!!!!
ALSO I HAVE POSTED THIS QUESTION BEFORE AND HERE ARE SOME ANSWERS!!!!
Fxfreak3: Ok. It sounds like your program deleted some vital registry entries. Without the right registry info, your computer can’t start up. If I were you, I’d get the XP or Vista disc (whatever it is you have) and follow the instructions to repair your current windows installation. Hope this helps.
REPLY: xfreak3 First off I don’t own the Vista manuel only cause I don’t have vista.
The XP manual! Is so complex that is almost unreadable!
I can’t reinstall anything only because my computer freezes up. I CAN’T DO ANYTHING!!!! But thank you for taking the time and trying to help
Mike: Never use 3rd party software to "Clean" your computer.
Always use Windows own, defragment and disc cleanup.
Try restarting in Last known good configuration or safe mode.
If that does not work, means its a lot more than your registry.
Try and do a repair install
If that fails, do a parallel install on the other Drive(D, E, F etc. anything except C) and backup your data.
If you have only 1 drive you are pretty much screwed, if you dont have crucial data, i’d say do a clean install.
For instructions on installing, go to
windowsreinstall.com
Since you dint specify your OS, I cannot give you specific link, you’d have to browse it in the website and find the screenshots for (repair, parallel, clean install)
REPLY:I may be wrong, and if I am don’t take it personal. But first off, iolo is a major company Not some cheap company I downloaded off the internet.! I bought it at BestBuy for 60$. Even IF it is a 3rd party program. Let me ask you. What anitvirus software isn’t third party that works good? That is released purely by Microsoft?
AIG and Nortan Antivirus are both made by 3rd party companies. They are both the other best companies that I know of.
Salim:i am still confused ur question. but i can help u.
see if u have a older dard disk u should not give pain to it such as defragmentation,format,cluster,.. it will lead to still weaken ur disk or sometime ur hard disk will colapse.
i think that was happend to ur disk. try change ur disk.
if not do the following.
switch on ur cpu, press "F8" before ur OS boots. now select "Start Pc last known goos configuratiion" then press enter key.
or try this one
switch on ur cpu, press "F8" before ur OS boots. now select safe mode then press enter key. now ur os boots. use System Restore to previous time.
REPLY:Salim again last known configuration dosen’t work as I stated in the question. It still freezes up. I also forgot to mention. I have 3 trojan scripts. But they are in quaritine and have had been there for over a year. And nothing has been affected.
You should get a windows xp cd. Boot to the cd. Instead of installing xp choose repair. When you get to the C:\WINDOWS prompt type fixboot and press enter. This will write a new boot sector to the disk. You also might want to try the chkdsk command at the C:\ prompt as well this will check your drive for errors and repair them if possible.
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Some answers above are good to try. Windows security and firewall is 100% garbage. You could run a semi through the holes. It is good to run defragmenting through windows, but 3rd party software is way better for security. Avg is good for free, Bit defender is great for a paid program.
If you can’t do anything, then you must boot the computer and while it is trying to start, you need to keep pressing the delete key. Just keep pressing every couple seconds until you get to the bios screen. You can change the boot order to boot from your disc. Insert the Xp disc and it will boot into Windows xp install,reinstall, repair options. You may be able to reinstall windows over itself and still save your data. I have done this many times before because I test alot of software and after installing and uninstalling hundreds of times, windows goes all haywire.
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If you have the windows xp disc or can borrow one if you don’t have one try booting to the cd. Once it loads select R to repair. It will ask for the administrator password if you have one. You should then the the C:\WINDOWS prompt. At that promp type chkdsk /r and press enter. Once that has completed and you are back at the C:\WINDOWS prompt type fixboot and press enter. Once that has finished you can then reboot your computer and hopefully fix the issue.
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