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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Excluded registry strings
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In this window the user can set strings that will be ignored when scanning the registry. This means that if a registry entry contains a path like "F:autorunauto.exe" and the string "autorunauto" is in the excluded strings list, then Registry First Aid will not check this registry entry for any error (will skip this entry). The exclude list is case insensitive.
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If a registry key value or data contains ANY of the strings in this list then this registry value or data will not be checked for possible errors. If the program searches for unwanted registry entries such values or data will not be searched.
This feature is useful to exclude CD-ROM, network or removable drive letters from finding them as "invalid" if they do not contain a media that a registry key is referenced to. For example, if your registry contains some references to files on a CD-ROM that currently is not in a drive and you do not want to remove those references from the registry then add your CD-ROM drive letter to the list. You may also add to the list, all your removable media drive letters. By default the excluded list is empty. So all links to files or folders on your removable drives will be found.
Items can be active/inactive. Checkbox indicates its state.
To add a string to the list, enter it in the edit box and press the Add button. To remove a string from the list, select it and press the Remove button.
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