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What
is Registry Corruption?
With all of the commands and priorities being held in the
Registry, it's easy to see how having an unclear set of instructions
can cause problems. What if you've got two Registry Entries
that give a program conflicting commands? What if you have
a program that needs to access certain resources, but the
Registry doesn't know where to find them? When these things
happen the result is a host of applications that don't know
how to behave. When Registry Entries become unnecessarily
altered, removed, or duplicated, it causes problems. The entries
at fault are said to be corrupted.
What are the Symptoms of a Corrupted Registry?
SYMPTOM
1 is computer slowdown. If programs try to open but
get conflicting orders, it takes a while. Remember that a
computer, unlike a person, doesn't necessarily give up trying
to do something when it finds out that it can't do it. It
keeps trying, and everything you subsequently ask it to do
is put in a waiting line. We all know what this feels like.
It takes forever to do anything: open a folder, play a game,
close applications, boot up and shut down.
SYMPTOM 2 is an ensemble
of glitches and errors. If you ever wondered where those unintelligible
error messages come from, the answer almost always has something
to do with the Registry. Video Errors, Parser Errors, File
Cannot be Found Errors: They occur when the computer tries
to do something that it no longer has a set of instructions
for. If, after trying, it just fails to do it altogether the
computer gives up and returns an error message.
SYMPTOM
3 is the most dreaded: computer freezes and crashes.
If problems in the Registry persist for long enough, it's
an indication of compounding corruption. The PC, faced with
commands it can't process simply locks up or the program you're
using crashes.
How did I Get These Registry Errors?
When a program is un-installed,
it usually leaves Registry entries behind. Those entries have
no purpose, but they linger on. If a newer version of the
program is later executed, it puts a duplicate entry into
the Registry. Later, when it accesses that command, it doesn't
know which instruction to follow, the old one or the new one.
Hence, the normal acts of installing and un-installing software
adds errors to the Registry. Adding and removing hardware,
changing user settings, adjusting user profiles, all of these
day-to-day actives create a cumulative littering effect in
the Registry.
Can RegCure fix my Registry?
To correct Registry
Errors you have to not only be able to detect them, but to also
determine which superfluous entries are actually causing harm.
RegCure was designed to take the guess work out of Registry
analysis. It's advanced scanning engine can assess the extent
of any Registry Corruption as well as the best way to fix it.
Its cleaning engine then repairs the mis-matched or mis-directed
entries in seconds.
Can I edit the registry
myself?
While editing the Registry by hand is certainly doable, it's
not recommended simply because there is so much sensitive data
to work around. To compound matters, the Registry's hierarchy
isn't organized by intuitive names like the file system's. Often
the different entries are simply set in numeric lists that can
have over a thousand items! Users are often unprepared for the
tedious task of sorting through hundreds of entries looking
for a single instance.
There are plenty of risks
involved with repairing the Windows Registry, don't exacerbate
them by trying to repair the errors yourself. And don't think
that by just ignoring the problems they'll go away. You need
a reliable, lasting solution. You need RegCure!
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