Registry Repair 101
Your Windows registry contains the data and settings for all your hardware and software. If you change settings in your Control Panel, for instance, they get stored in your registry. If you install or uninstall an application, visit a website, play an audio file, save a file, or even just read a file, or perform any of the numerous tasks you normally use your PC for, your registry changes. This is the reason why registry repair is something that should concern anyone who uses a PC.
Your registry consists of five sub-trees:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
This has data that links and embeds objects and associates files. The data here is replicated in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG
As its name implies, the configurations for all the hardware you currently use are found here. As long as you are using your PC, you use and modify this part of the registry. When you shut down, the configuration you last used gets copied to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
All your hardware data is here. It is changed every time you boot your PC to show the current configurations of all hardware.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER
This contains your profile info or that of, as its name implies, any user who is logged on at the moment.
HKEY_USERS
All user profiles are found here. It also has duplicates of the data in HKEY_CURRENT_USER.
Your system registry is one of the most used – and abused – parts of your PC. It is also the most vulnerable since your registry is the place viruses will often choose to hide in. And the thing about malware is it can choose to hide in any of the five sub-trees, mimicking similar entries that a non-expert may miss.
Adware and spyware, although easily detectable in the other parts of your system like your Temp and Cache folders, may remain undetected in your registry until you decide to clean it out.
The difficult thing about registry repair and maintenance is it isn´t the same as emptying out your Recycle Bin, your Temporary Internet Files, or even deleting your cookies (many of which restore themselves when you repeat the task).
If you aren´t 100% sure that you are performing registry repair and maintenance correctly, you can delete of move something and cause major damage to your system.
If malware is mimicking a registry entry, RegCure is sensitive enough to pick it up and will safely delete the file. If stray files from old, uninstalled programs happen to be left in your registry, slowing down your PC, this tool will solve the problem.
The great thing about this tool is that it deals with the confusion of too many duplicate files in the different sub-trees, which often hangs a program because it can't detect which file to access.
Your registry consists of five sub-trees:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
This has data that links and embeds objects and associates files. The data here is replicated in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG
As its name implies, the configurations for all the hardware you currently use are found here. As long as you are using your PC, you use and modify this part of the registry. When you shut down, the configuration you last used gets copied to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
All your hardware data is here. It is changed every time you boot your PC to show the current configurations of all hardware.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER
This contains your profile info or that of, as its name implies, any user who is logged on at the moment.
HKEY_USERS
All user profiles are found here. It also has duplicates of the data in HKEY_CURRENT_USER.
Your system registry is one of the most used – and abused – parts of your PC. It is also the most vulnerable since your registry is the place viruses will often choose to hide in. And the thing about malware is it can choose to hide in any of the five sub-trees, mimicking similar entries that a non-expert may miss.
Adware and spyware, although easily detectable in the other parts of your system like your Temp and Cache folders, may remain undetected in your registry until you decide to clean it out.
The difficult thing about registry repair and maintenance is it isn´t the same as emptying out your Recycle Bin, your Temporary Internet Files, or even deleting your cookies (many of which restore themselves when you repeat the task).
If you aren´t 100% sure that you are performing registry repair and maintenance correctly, you can delete of move something and cause major damage to your system.
The Most Practical Way to Perform a Registry Repair Sweep
The good news is that you don't have to plod through step-by-step manual registry repair procedures to deal with system problems. Running a safe and reliable registry cleaning tool, such as RegCure, is the most logical way to deal with registry issues.If malware is mimicking a registry entry, RegCure is sensitive enough to pick it up and will safely delete the file. If stray files from old, uninstalled programs happen to be left in your registry, slowing down your PC, this tool will solve the problem.
The great thing about this tool is that it deals with the confusion of too many duplicate files in the different sub-trees, which often hangs a program because it can't detect which file to access.
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