Category: Registry Scan

This video is brought to you by: www.pcmichiana.com For most users, the Windows registry is an intimidating aspect of the Windows operating system. On the other hand, registry cleaners such as CCleaner have come a long way in the past ten years, and cleaning the Windows registry hive, which was once a horrible idea, is now standard practice when maintaining PC performance. This video will illustrate how to use the Piriform CCleaner to clean out the Windows 7 system registry hive. Although it is extremely unlikely there will be problems when cleaning out your system, it is still always a good idea to perform a registry backup. Thankfully, backing up the registry is also built right into the CCleaner software package. Clean The Windows System Registry Free With CCleaner 1. Download and Install CCleaner from the following location pcmichiana.com 2. Select the Windows ‘Start’ button. 3. Type ‘CCleaner’. 4. Select ‘CCleaner’ from the program list. 5. Once opened, select the ‘Registry’ tab on the left hand side. 6. Next, select the ‘Scan For Issues…’ button. 7. Once the registry is scanned and it shows issues, select ‘Fix Selected Issues…’ 8. When prompted, backup your registry. 9. Select ‘Fix All Issues’. 10. Repeat steps 6 through 9 until no more issues are found. 11. That’s it! Scanning for issues more than once is one interesting thing most people do not know about registry cleaning. What happens is Windows associates files with programs that don’t exist anymore, and …
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When using a Microsoft Windows XP computer in a home or business network, browsing the network can sometimes be sluggish. Making changes to the Windows XP registry will allow you to reduce the amount of bandwidth used to search and index shared folders, which can drastically increase your network connection. This is especially true when your computer is connected to a network with many shared folders and files. Making the following changes will accomplish this painlessly. Short Instruction ============== 1.Click on the “Start Menu,” and select “Run.” In the window that pops up, type “regedit,” and click “OK.” 2.In the Registry Editor, navigate to “HKEY_Current_User\Software\Microsoft \Windows\CurrentVersion \Policies\Explorer\.” 3.Right-click the right-hand pane in the “Registry Editor” window, and select “New,” then select “DWORD Value.” 4.T.ype “NoRecentDocsNetHood” for the title, then double-click on “NoRecentDocsNetHood” and enter “1” for the value. 5.Right-click the right-hand pane again, select “New,” then select “DWORD Value.” This time, type “UseDesktopIniCache” for the title, then double-click on “UseDesktopIniCache” and enter “1” for the value.
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