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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Fixing the registry
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Quick Tour: Step 3 of 3
On this last wizard page, you have to confirm the deletion or modification of registry keys, and choose a backup file name. You may browse the file system for the folder where you want to save the backup file. The backup files are of REGEDIT4 format and can help you later to restore the modified registry keys to initial state. See the How to restore modified entries topic.
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By default the checkbox "Save the undo file (regedit4 format)" is checked. Enter the full path and file name to the edit field below. An example is: "C:Program FilesRFABackups2001_04_27.reg". You may or may not type the filename with the file extension. If the file extension is missing, then the default ".reg" extension will automatically be added. It is possible to use the Browse button to locate a path and file name as well. By default the program offers to save the backup file into the "Backups" folder at the program home folder (e.g. "C:Program FilesRFABackups").
If you do not want to save a backup of the registry entries then clear the "Save the undo file (regedit4 format)" checkbox.
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| · | We do not recommend that you skip saving the backup file as you will not be able to restore the modified registry keys if needed later.
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| · | Give different names to backups, each time you clean the registry. By default, backup names contain current date like this "C:Program FilesRFA2001_04_27_1026.reg". Usually, you do not need to change them.
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To apply changes to the registry, press the Fix it! button. If the operation is successful, you will receive an information message. Registry First Aid's wizard will jump back to the found registry entries page where you can select other entries for correction if desired.
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See also:
| Make backups when deleting/changing registry entries
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| Found invalid entries listview
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