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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How you might use the key word search feature
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This feature, Search the Registry for Unwanted Entries, may help you find some registry keys that belong to a software. For example, you just un-installed an application, say "SuperApp". The executable file of the application was, say super.exe. You want to be sure that it's uninstall program removed all application traces from the registry.
To do so, you can:
1. select the "search the registry for unwanted entries" option in Registry First Aid,
2. enter keywords "SuperApp" and "super.exe" to search for,
3. select to search in the Keys, Values and Data checkboxes,
4. select the "Search for ANY of the strings" switch,
5. run the search.
Registry First Aid will find any registry keys and values containing "SuperApp" or "super.exe" keywords. They may belong to the question application, or may not. By default all found entries aren't selected for removal. It's up to you to look through the list and select only those entries that belong to the application and you want to delete from the registry.
After you selected items for removal and set their correction to "Delete the entry" or "Cut invalid substring", click the Next button to make registry changes.
That's main goal of the Search the Registry for Unwanted Entries feature. Of course, you may find another use of it, not only deleting uninstalled application traces.
See also:
Search the registry for words