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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Search the registry for words
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Registry First Aid allows you to search the registry keys and/or values for words or strings. It can be started from the Welcome page by selecting the Search the Registry for Unwanted Entries radio button and clicking Next.
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This feature is useful if you want to find all registry entries that remained from un-installed/removed applications. You can enter a removed program name and it's company name in order to get a list of all entries found in the registry. Then you may delete entries or edit them manually using the Open the registry key with RegEdit command from the right-click pop-up menu.
Please see this link: How you might use the key word search feature.
Caution!
This Search tool is NOT to find "BAD" entries, but "ALL" entries that contain a word. It's used to see if entries are left in your registry after uninstalling a program say like Norton Utilities where you could search for words like Symantec and Norton to see what is left behind and then delete WHAT YOU WANT not all that are displayed.
The program searches HKEY_CURRENT_USER, HKEY_USERS.Default, HKEY_USERSSoftware and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE registry entries for selected strings. Scanning may take a few minutes depending on your processor and available RAM. Found entries are displayed in the list view on the found registry entries page. Note that HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT hive is the subkey SoftwareClasses of the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE hive. So, it is scanned by Registry First Aid too.
See also:
Enter keywords to search in the registry
How you might use the key word search feature
Found registry entries listview