RegSeeker?

[Daze N. Knights]

Anyone have any good or bad experience with RegSeeker by Hover?

Daze

 

[Doc]

Anyone have any good or bad experience with RegSeeker by Hover?

Daze

All good.

 

[Daze N. Knights]

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All good.

Thanks for your opinion, Doc.

 

[P.]

Anyone have any good or bad experience with RegSeeker by Hover?

All good too.

None of them ever seem to get everything though, so I happily run
Regscrub, Crap Cleaner, Regseeker and they all seem to find something else.

And being totally honest, one day I really should read up on what to do
if it all goes wrong !

P.

 

[mike ring]

Thanks for your opinion, Doc.

mine, too...... er, that's "experience, not opinion.

Of course, I haven't tried the latest version yet ;0)

mike

 

[Jim Byrd]

Hi P - If you must screw around with your Registry (strongly
NON-recommended), then at least get Erunt/Erdnt, and run it before you do
the Reg clean. You'll then have a true restore available to you. Read
below to see why you might not just using the Reg cleaner's restore:

Get Erunt here for all NT-based computers including XP:
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/index.htm I've set it up to
take a scheduled backup each night at 12:01AM on a weekly round-robin basis,
and a Monthly on the 1st of each month. See here for how to set that up:
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/erunt.txt, and for some
useful information about this subject.

This program is one of the best things around - saved my butt on many
occasions, and will also run very nicely from a DOS prompt (in case you've
done something that won't let you boot any more and need to revert to a
previous Registry) IF you're FAT32 OR have a DOS startup disk with NTFS
write drivers in an NTFS system. (There is also a way using the Recovery
Console to get back to being "bootable" even without separate DOS write NTFS
drivers, after which you can do a "normal" Erdnt restore.) (BTW, it also
includes a Registry defragger program). Free, and very, very highly
recommended.

FYI, quoting from the above document:

"Note: The "Export registry" function in Regedit is USELESS (!) to make a
complete backup of the registry. Neither does it export the whole registry
(for example, no information from the "SECURITY" hive is saved), nor can the
exported file be used later to replace the current registry with the old
one. Instead, if you re-import the file, it is merged with the current
registry, leaving you with an absolute mess of old and new registry keys.

 

[DaVinci]

Hi P - If you must screw around with your Registry (strongly
NON-recommended), then at least get Erunt/Erdnt, and run it before you do
the Reg clean. You'll then have a true restore available to you. Read
below to see why you might not just using the Reg cleaner's restore:

Get Erunt here for all NT-based computers including XP:
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/index.htm I've set it up to
take a scheduled backup each night at 12:01AM on a weekly round-robin basis,
and a Monthly on the 1st of each month. See here for how to set that up:
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/erunt.txt, and for some
useful information about this subject.

This program is one of the best things around - saved my butt on many
occasions, and will also run very nicely from a DOS prompt (in case you've
done something that won't let you boot any more and need to revert to a
previous Registry) IF you're FAT32 OR have a DOS startup disk with NTFS
write drivers in an NTFS system. (There is also a way using the Recovery
Console to get back to being "bootable" even without separate DOS write NTFS
drivers, after which you can do a "normal" Erdnt restore.) (BTW, it also
includes a Registry defragger program). Free, and very, very highly
recommended.

<snip>

Jim,

Thanks for pointing out these utilities. They're both very helpful.

D.

 

[Frank Bohan]

Anyone have any good or bad experience with RegSeeker by Hover?

Daze

I have been using v1.30 for years with no problems until recently. The last
two times I used it were disastrous as it removed large chunks of my
registry and created all sorts of problems. Fortunately it kept a record of
the deletions and they could be replaced easily. I had decided not to use it
in future, but I see there is a new version available and I am undecided
whether to try it or not. OS is XPHome(SP2).

===

Frank Bohan
¶ Why did God give the tortoise a drag factor of 0.03?

 

[Jim Byrd]

YW, DaVinci. Glad you found them useful.

 

[Phoenix]

Get Erunt here for all NT-based computers including XP:
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/index.htm

Moved: Was - http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/index.htm
Now - http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/

 

[Jim Byrd]

Thanks, Phoenix.

 

[Peacerose]

Hi P - If you must screw around with your Registry (strongly
NON-recommended), then at least get Erunt/Erdnt, and run it before you do
the Reg clean. You'll then have a true restore available to you. Read
below to see why you might not just using the Reg cleaner's restore:

Get Erunt here for all NT-based computers including XP:
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/index.htm I've set it up to
take a scheduled backup each night at 12:01AM on a weekly round-robin basis,
and a Monthly on the 1st of each month. See here for how to set that up:
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/erunt.txt, and for some
useful information about this subject.

This program is one of the best things around - saved my butt on many
occasions, and will also run very nicely from a DOS prompt (in case you've
done something that won't let you boot any more and need to revert to a
previous Registry) IF you're FAT32 OR have a DOS startup disk with NTFS
write drivers in an NTFS system. (There is also a way using the Recovery
Console to get back to being "bootable" even without separate DOS write NTFS
drivers, after which you can do a "normal" Erdnt restore.) (BTW, it also
includes a Registry defragger program). Free, and very, very highly
recommended.

FYI, quoting from the above document:

"Note: The "Export registry" function in Regedit is USELESS (!) to make a
complete backup of the registry. Neither does it export the whole registry
(for example, no information from the "SECURITY" hive is saved), nor can the
exported file be used later to replace the current registry with the old
one. Instead, if you re-import the file, it is merged with the current
registry, leaving you with an absolute mess of old and new registry keys.

And I just wanted to add that it only takes a few short minutes to back up
the registry and they are a few minutes you will never regret!

Peacerose