Registry First Aid 4.1 Online Manual
Registry First Aid will help you find and correct problems with your system registry.
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Overview- Registering the software
- Technical support
Getting started
- How to use Registry First Aid
- Search the registry for words
- Check the registry for errors
- Select corrections for invalid registry entries
- Using the pop-up menu
- Advanced settings
- Create/Restore Registry Backups
- Make backups before modifying registry entries
- Create full registry backup
- Automatically create full registry backups
- What restore option to choose
- Restore registry from .reg backup files
- Restore full registry backup in Windows® 98
- Restore full registry backup in Windows® ME
- Restore full registry backup in Windows® 2000
- Restore full registry backup in Windows® XP
Windows® 2000/XP/2003 does not boot regardless of try Safe Mode and Last Known Good Configuration
- Compacting the registry
- Check the Web for updates
- Multilanguage Support
- Command line parameters
- Note for machines with multiple Operating Systems installed
- FAQ
- Why does Registry First Aid initially show entries as "Delete Entry" and then change to "Leave the entry without change"?
- What are the limitations of the unregistered version?
- Why does Registry First Aid find fewer invalid registry entries than some other registry cleaners?
- Why doesn't Registry First Aid recognize all my removable drives in the "excluded" list?
- Why does a second run of the program still find a few dozen invalid entries?
- "Error reading REG_MULTI_SZ registry key : "Counter"" appears during the registry scan.
- After cleaning the registry with Registry First Aid, I find a program does not function correctly. What do I do?
- How do I uninstall Registry First Aid?
- What is the proper procedure for installing updates? Should I uninstall the previous version?
- If I get an error relating to some deleted Registry item, how do I locate this in the backup, and restore it?
- Why doesn't Registry First Aid scan HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT hive? Is there a reason for this?
- Why after running Registry First Aid, does the program ask if I want to compact the registry? Do I want to do that?
- I have multiprocessor machine and the program raises "Access Violation" error while running the scan.
- Sometimes I get a I/O error when I try to fix the registry errors.
- My computer reboots on the second step - scanning disks
- Double-clicking on a .reg backup file does not restore backup. Instead, it runs notepad. How to fix this?
- Registry First Aid always stops on scanning the same registry key
- I have the default 'Excluded Paths' listed, such as :\RECYCLER\ etc.., when I'm logged on (XP Home), but not listed when using Registry First Aid under the other two user names on the same PC. Why is that?
- I noticed that I have to register the program separately under each user name on the same machine. Why?
- My copy of Registry First Aid finds everything, shows what to correct but when I tell it to correct the items it does nothing. What is wrong?
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List of paths excluded from the search for corrections
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This list contains paths excluded from the disk search. The list is case insensitive.
Screenshot.
Adding paths to the exclusion list is very easy. Just click the Browse button, select a path and click OK or simply enter a whole path string into the edit box. Entered path strings then can be edited and added into the exclusion list - click the Add button.
Note: If the list contains an upper-level folder path, then you won't be able to add a subfolder (for example if the "D:Temp" folder is in the list, the subfolder "D:TempSubfolder" can't be added into the list). The reason for this is because the program disables from scanning all folders with their subfolders.
Tip 1: To skip searching folders with the same name on all drives simply enter a folder name beginning and ending with "". For example, to avoid searching for corrections in folders C:Recycled, D:Recycled, and so on, add the string Recycled into the exclusion list.
Tip 2: Adding Recycled into the exclusion list will exclude from the scan all folders containing Recycled substring in their path: C:gamesRecycled, E:Temporary Internet FilesRecycled, etc. To avoid this keep the ":" as the first char of excluded path: :Recycled.
Items can be active/inactive. Checkbox indicates it's state.
By default exclusion list contains the following paths:
BOOTWIZ
RECYCLED
RECYCLER
Temporary Internet Files
See also:
Advanced settings