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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Select corrections for invalid registry entries
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When Registry First Aid completes the registry scanning it will begin to search for matches on drives or paths that are listed in the list of search paths. After completing the search, the program will show all found entries with suggested corrections in the found invalid entries listview.
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The listview can display found invalid registry entries grouped by error category or by safety level. Clicking on a corresponding item (like Invalid fonts error category or Caution safety level) within the navigation bar at the left side of the window, will open a list with grouped invalid registry entries.
In the list, you can select the entries that you want to correct.
The entries that are checked (selected) in the listview, are the only items that will be corrected. They have a checkmark at the left side.
If you click on an item in the listview, a drop-down list will appear with all available suggested corrections for the invalid registry entry described by the item. If there aren't any obvious corrections to be made, you will have the choice to "Leave the entry without changes" or to "Delete the entry (no matches found)". If there are corrections, then the list will specify the most correct change (default) and others that apply. Select the most appropriate choice by clicking the entry. The choices for the item in the listview have a font color associated with the type of correction as described below:
Available corrections can be highlighted in the following manner:
Leave the entry without changes - black font color;
Delete the entry - olive font color;
Cut invalid substring - magenta font color;
Found correction 1 - green font color;
Found correction 2 - green font color;
and etc.
Click here to read how every entry is displayed in the list.
| · | To validate found invalid registry entry you can use the right-click context menu. This menu allows you to see the value in the registry using the "REGEDIT" -function. Registry First Aid will run regedit.exe and open the selected registry key. For information on how to edit an entry using regedit.exe please refer to the Windows® help.
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| · | To verify the existence of an invalid file/folder registry reference you can use the Open the destination folder command from the pop-up menu. Registry First Aid will open a folder that corresponds to the path where an entry should exist.
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| · | The Select option from the pop-up menu allows you select/deselect items in the listview.
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| · | The Highlight option from the pop-up menu allows you to operate with "Highlight" flag.
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To highlight entries in the listview hold the left mouse button while dragging over the list. The CTRL or SHIFT keys can be used to highlight items in the listview, in the manner like in the Windows® explorer (please refer to the "To select multiple files and folders" Windows® help topic).
| · | The Set corrections for highlighted items to... option from the pop-up menu allows you to set correction for all highlighted items.
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Please read the Using the pop-up menu topic for more information about context pop-up menu commands.
After looking through all invalid registry keys and choosing your (most suitable) corrections, you can commence to apply the registry changes by clicking the Next button. In the fixing registry page the Fix It button will commit your changes, and if you want, an "Undo" file can be created for recovery purposes.
See also:
| Selecting applicable matches with the invalid entries
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| Cut Invalid Substring correction
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| Fixing the registry
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| Make backups when deleting/changing registry entries
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| Using the pop-up menu
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