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What are the most common Registry problems?
Several problems may occur within your registry and are generally related to registry fragmentation, and corrupt, unused, missing, orphaned or obsolete entries. Fragmentation may be a serious problem and usually occurs because certain processes continually and incrementally modify the same values within the registry. This fragmentation, in certain cases, be excessive and eventually registry file sizes may exceed the Registry Size Limits imposed by Windows. This will cause any subsequent modifications to the registry to fail.
Other registry errors include:
Registry integrity and shell folder entries including My Documents, profiles and favourites
Software locations including missing, orphaned, broken or bad application/Windows paths, and links.
Unwanted browser objects.
Corrupt Active X/COM Objects.
Unused, obsolete Start Menu items.
Redundant Startup applications and uninstalled application schedulers.
Orphaned shortcuts, temporary (.tmp) files and Scandisk or Checkdisk fragment (.chk) files.
Missing or corrupt application IDs.
Obsolete shared DLLs and folders.
Unused help file references.
Residual and unused files.
Uninstalled software remnants.
Unused and unwanted drivers.
File extensions and associations.
Unnecessary fonts and recent files list.
Whenever you make any changes in your preferences or settings, installed software or hardware, these changes are stored in the Windows registry. Changes in your registry settings may be made by using the Registry Editor (regedit.exe) provided with Windows.
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