Windows XP registry

[Guest]

Hi

How can you check if Windows XP registry is working properly?
Is there software to check it?

Please reply soon.

Thanks

Egan

 

[Shenan Stanley]

How can you check if Windows XP registry is working properly?
Is there software to check it?

Hmmm..
I am not sure what you mean.. "working properly".
If you can boot and use your computer - it's working.

 

[Guest]

Hi

What I mean is that "How can you tell if Windows XP registry is corrupted?"

Please reply soon.

Thanks.

Egan

 

[Shenan Stanley]

How can you check if Windows XP registry is working properly?
Is there software to check it?

Hmmm..
I am not sure what you mean.. "working properly".
If you can boot and use your computer - it's working.

What I mean is that "How can you tell if Windows XP registry is
corrupted?"

If you can boot and use all of your applications - the registry is unlikely
to be corrupted.
It may have some straggling entries - but not corrupted.
While some people do claim to see a slight increase in speed (likely boot
speed) if the registry is cleaned of these stragglers - it is caused by poor
initial computer maintenance. If you install and uninstall properly when
testing applications and keep your machine well maintained - then you will
have less of these stragglers and their performance hit will be minimal -
very very minimal.

If you use an application like ERUNT to backup your registry and the
CCLEANER to clean it up some - you will get most of the well known
stragglers and might see some (milliseconds?) improvement in some areas.
Anything beyond that - well - you shouldn't dive into unless you would dive
into it without the many tools that are out there to help you in the
registry..

What I mean is "you shouldn't dive blindly into something you do not
understand on your production machine.."

Again - if your machine is working - applications running - it is unlikely
you have a corrupt registry - since that usually results in a dead machine.

 

[Ron Martell]

Hi

What I mean is that "How can you tell if Windows XP registry is corrupted?"

Please reply soon.

"If it ain't broke don't fix it".

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

In memory of a dear friend Alex Nichol MVP
http://aumha.org/alex.htm

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Egan

You will get an Error message or the computer won't work! Learn about
error messages.

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Administrative Tools,
Event Viewer.
When researching the meaning of the error, information regarding Event
ID, Source
and Description are important.

HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308427&Product=winxp

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double
click on the
error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a button
resembling two
pages. Double click the button and close Event Viewer. Now start your
message
(email) and do a paste into the body of the message. This will paste the
info from the
Event Viewer Error Report complete with links into the message. Make
sure this is
the first paste after exiting from Event Viewer.

In Event Viewer there is no facility to print Error Reports. A
workaround is copy and
paste the Error Report into an email, send it to yourself and print off
the copy in your
Inbox or your Sent Items folder.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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