Registry Fix software

Hello.

I came across a software package that helps one clean up the system
registry. It's called Registry Fix. Can anyone tell me if this is a
Microsoft program and your experience with the program.

I ran the free scanning offered by RF which showed over 600 registry system
problems that cause PCs to run slow or poorly.

Thank you.

phoenix444

Here is a post by Bruce Chambers. This explains it very well.




The registry contains all of the operating system's "knowledge" of
the computer's hardware devices, installed software, the location of the
device drivers, and the computer's configuration. A misstep in the
registry can have severe consequences. One should not even turning
loose a poorly understood automated "cleaner," unless he is fully
confident that he knows *exactly* what is going to happen as a result of
each and every change. Having seen the results of inexperienced people
using automated registry "cleaners," I can only advise all but the most
experienced computer technicians (and/or hobbyists) to avoid them all.
Experience has shown me that such tools simply are not safe in the hands
of the inexperienced user.

The only thing needed to safely clean your registry is knowledge
and Regedit.exe. If you lack the knowledge and experience to maintain
your registry by yourself, then you also lack the knowledge and
experience to safely configure and use any automated registry cleaner,
no matter how safe they claim to be.

Further, no one has ever demonstrated, to my satisfaction, that the
use of an automated registry cleaner, particularly by an untrained,
inexperienced computer user, does any real good. There's certainly been
no empirical evidence offered to demonstrate that the use of such
products to "clean" WinXP's registry improves a computer's performance
or stability.

What specific problem are you experiencing that you *know* beyond
all reasonable doubt will be fixed by using an automated registry
cleaner? If you do have a problem that is rooted in the registry, it
would be far better to simply edit (after backing up, of course) only
the specific key(s) and/or value(s) that are causing the problem. Why
use a shotgun when a scalpel will do the job? Additionally, the
manually changing of one or two registry entries is far less likely to
have the dire consequences of allowing an automated product to make
multiple changes simultaneously.

I always use Regedit.exe. I trust my own experience and judgment
far more than I would any automated registry cleaner. I strongly
encourage others to acquire the knowledge, as well.

--

Bruce Chambers


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"phoenix444" <> wrote in message news:20143378-E1BD-4513-964B-...
> Hello.
>
> I came across a software package that helps one clean up the system
> registry. It's called Registry Fix. Can anyone tell me if this is a
> Microsoft program and your experience with the program.
>
> I ran the free scanning offered by RF which showed over 600 registry system
> problems that cause PCs to run slow or poorly.
>
> Thank you.
>
> phoenix444
>
>

Thank you, Peter for replying. This is article by Bruce is very informative.
He mentions the use of Regedit.exe. Do you know anything about this
particular application? I assume it's not a "cleaner" as he strongly
suggests that the novice (which I certainly am) not use such a program.

Any advice you can give on this will be greatly appreciated. I've done disk
defragmenting and the PC still runs slow.

Respectfully,

Lisa

"Peter Foldes" wrote:

> Here is a post by Bruce Chambers. This explains it very well.
>
>
>
>
> The registry contains all of the operating system's "knowledge" of
> the computer's hardware devices, installed software, the location of the
> device drivers, and the computer's configuration. A misstep in the
> registry can have severe consequences. One should not even turning
> loose a poorly understood automated "cleaner," unless he is fully
> confident that he knows *exactly* what is going to happen as a result of
> each and every change. Having seen the results of inexperienced people
> using automated registry "cleaners," I can only advise all but the most
> experienced computer technicians (and/or hobbyists) to avoid them all.
> Experience has shown me that such tools simply are not safe in the hands
> of the inexperienced user.
>
> The only thing needed to safely clean your registry is knowledge
> and Regedit.exe. If you lack the knowledge and experience to maintain
> your registry by yourself, then you also lack the knowledge and
> experience to safely configure and use any automated registry cleaner,
> no matter how safe they claim to be.
>
> Further, no one has ever demonstrated, to my satisfaction, that the
> use of an automated registry cleaner, particularly by an untrained,
> inexperienced computer user, does any real good. There's certainly been
> no empirical evidence offered to demonstrate that the use of such
> products to "clean" WinXP's registry improves a computer's performance
> or stability.
>
> What specific problem are you experiencing that you *know* beyond
> all reasonable doubt will be fixed by using an automated registry
> cleaner? If you do have a problem that is rooted in the registry, it
> would be far better to simply edit (after backing up, of course) only
> the specific key(s) and/or value(s) that are causing the problem. Why
> use a shotgun when a scalpel will do the job? Additionally, the
> manually changing of one or two registry entries is far less likely to
> have the dire consequences of allowing an automated product to make
> multiple changes simultaneously.
>
> I always use Regedit.exe. I trust my own experience and judgment
> far more than I would any automated registry cleaner. I strongly
> encourage others to acquire the knowledge, as well.
>
> --
>
> Bruce Chambers
>
>
> --
> Peter
>
> Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
> Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.
>
> "phoenix444" <> wrote in message news:20143378-E1BD-4513-964B-...
> > Hello.
> >
> > I came across a software package that helps one clean up the system
> > registry. It's called Registry Fix. Can anyone tell me if this is a
> > Microsoft program and your experience with the program.
> >
> > I ran the free scanning offered by RF which showed over 600 registry system
> > problems that cause PCs to run slow or poorly.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > phoenix444
> >
> >
>

"I've done disk defragmenting and the PC still runs slow."

This rings bells for me - alarm bells!

You may have a virus/spyware hijack

download the Stinger from here and run it to make sure that A-V-disabling
viruses are not present on your PC
http://vil.mcafeesecurity.com/vil/averttools.asp

- update your virus scanner and run a full system scan of all files.

Reboot to Safe Mode and run CWShredder - to remove variants of the
CoolWebSearch hijacker.
http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html

Use CWShredder, the removal tool:
http://www.intermute.com/products/cwshredder.html
(download it without the accompanying rubbish)

download AdAware SE Personal Edition from www.lavasoftusa.com, install,
update, and run it to remove spyware, adware, and other such nasties from
your system.



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"phoenix444" <> wrote in message
news:67FCC7DB-01A4-416D-B88D-...
> Thank you, Peter for replying. This is article by Bruce is very
> informative.
> He mentions the use of Regedit.exe. Do you know anything about this
> particular application? I assume it's not a "cleaner" as he strongly
> suggests that the novice (which I certainly am) not use such a program.
>
> Any advice you can give on this will be greatly appreciated. I've done
> disk
> defragmenting and the PC still runs slow.
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Lisa
>
> "Peter Foldes" wrote:
>
>> Here is a post by Bruce Chambers. This explains it very well.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> The registry contains all of the operating system's "knowledge" of
>> the computer's hardware devices, installed software, the location of the
>> device drivers, and the computer's configuration. A misstep in the
>> registry can have severe consequences. One should not even turning
>> loose a poorly understood automated "cleaner," unless he is fully
>> confident that he knows *exactly* what is going to happen as a result of
>> each and every change. Having seen the results of inexperienced people
>> using automated registry "cleaners," I can only advise all but the most
>> experienced computer technicians (and/or hobbyists) to avoid them all.
>> Experience has shown me that such tools simply are not safe in the hands
>> of the inexperienced user.
>>
>> The only thing needed to safely clean your registry is knowledge
>> and Regedit.exe. If you lack the knowledge and experience to maintain
>> your registry by yourself, then you also lack the knowledge and
>> experience to safely configure and use any automated registry cleaner,
>> no matter how safe they claim to be.
>>
>> Further, no one has ever demonstrated, to my satisfaction, that the
>> use of an automated registry cleaner, particularly by an untrained,
>> inexperienced computer user, does any real good. There's certainly been
>> no empirical evidence offered to demonstrate that the use of such
>> products to "clean" WinXP's registry improves a computer's performance
>> or stability.
>>
>> What specific problem are you experiencing that you *know* beyond
>> all reasonable doubt will be fixed by using an automated registry
>> cleaner? If you do have a problem that is rooted in the registry, it
>> would be far better to simply edit (after backing up, of course) only
>> the specific key(s) and/or value(s) that are causing the problem. Why
>> use a shotgun when a scalpel will do the job? Additionally, the
>> manually changing of one or two registry entries is far less likely to
>> have the dire consequences of allowing an automated product to make
>> multiple changes simultaneously.
>>
>> I always use Regedit.exe. I trust my own experience and judgment
>> far more than I would any automated registry cleaner. I strongly
>> encourage others to acquire the knowledge, as well.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Bruce Chambers
>>
>>
>> --
>> Peter
>>
>> Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
>> Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.
>>
>> "phoenix444" <> wrote in message
>> news:20143378-E1BD-4513-964B-...
>> > Hello.
>> >
>> > I came across a software package that helps one clean up the system
>> > registry. It's called Registry Fix. Can anyone tell me if this is a
>> > Microsoft program and your experience with the program.
>> >
>> > I ran the free scanning offered by RF which showed over 600 registry
>> > system
>> > problems that cause PCs to run slow or poorly.
>> >
>> > Thank you.
>> >
>> > phoenix444
>> >
>> >
>>

I would advise against this,do not go into the registry unless you know what
you are doing(I learnt the hard way,and ended up taking my computer back to
factory setting's,a lot of work).Use a program called search & destroy then
defrag your machine.
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Yours Sincerely
WillyBilly


"phoenix444" wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I came across a software package that helps one clean up the system
> registry. It's called Registry Fix. Can anyone tell me if this is a
> Microsoft program and your experience with the program.
>
> I ran the free scanning offered by RF which showed over 600 registry system
> problems that cause PCs to run slow or poorly.
>
> Thank you.
>
> phoenix444
>
>

phoenix444 wrote:

> Thank you, Peter for replying. This is article by Bruce is very informative.
> He mentions the use of Regedit.exe. Do you know anything about this
> particular application? I assume it's not a "cleaner" as he strongly
> suggests that the novice (which I certainly am) not use such a program.
>
> Any advice you can give on this will be greatly appreciated. I've done disk
> defragmenting and the PC still runs slow.
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Lisa
>

Regedit is the registry editing program that is part of Windows XP.
It's not a cleaner. It's the tool for looking at and editing the
registry. There are no automated features to it. Here is a link with
information on it. It takes time, practice and care to learn how to use it.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...egeditors.mspx


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Rock
MS MVP Windows - Shell/User