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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Quick Tour: Step 1 of 3
Registry First Aid is designed like a wizard. It will guide you through the entire process of fixing invalid registry entries.
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The wizard consists of two parts:
| · | checking the registry for errors,
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| · | searching the registry for unwanted entries.
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Each part has three steps:
| · | Selecting error types (or keywords to search in the registry);
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| · | Verifying found invalid (or unwanted) entries;
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| · | Fixing the registry.
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Also, there's a configuration page opened by clicking the Advanced settings button on the Starting page. The following options can be configured:
| · | exclusion list of registry strings;
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| · | paths to search for registry corrections;
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| · | list of paths excluded from searching for corrections;
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| · | registry keys excluded from the registry scan;
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Each step requires the completion of the previous process as listed above. If you want to repeat a step, you can use the Back button. For each step there are information tips that briefly describe what you can do on that particular step. Until you become familiar with Registry First Aid, it is highly recommended that you read the tips.
On the Starting page you can select the action which you want to do: check the registry for errors or search the registry for unwanted entries. Then click on the Next button to move to the next wizard page. Depending on the action that you select, on the next page you can either select errors to scan the registry or enter keywords to search.
Note for machines with multiple Operating Systems (OS) installed.
Press the Start button at the bottom of the wizard to process. You can stop the scanning by pressing the Stop button at any time during the scan.
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See also:
Advanced settings
Selecting the registry errors to scan
Entering keywords to search in the registry