how to clean registry in Vista

G

Guest

hi,
i have installed a few programmes but i dont know how to clean the registry
in vista . does any one have any idea of this. Kindly guide as i cant install
my school projects.

since regards
Ranjan Samant
 
C

Colin Barnhorst

What school projects are you talking about? Which edition of Vista did you
install on your computer? What kind of computer is it?

What is making you think you need to clean the registry? Are you getting
any error messages that mention the registry?

If you can't install your school projects it is likely problems with your
software being incompatible with Vista or problems with permissions to do
the installations.
 
J

Josh

Rajan,

Cleaning the registry is a very dangerous task and has lots of factors that
can affect where things are kept. If it is an MSI based setup the reminents
can be completely different than those of your typicall setup.exe. I would
not recommend you using anything other than the native uninstall for
applications.
 
D

Daphne Foldes

Hello

If you do not know how to clean the registry then you do not have any business to do it and especially with any registry cleaner tools. You can mess up your computer to the point of not working.
 
G

Guest

hi,
i'm using an accounting software. that has three version . one is free
edition and another is standard version and the last one is delux version.
at first i used to try free version.. that was working fine and i did some
work on that for few days and later i bought the standard version as it had
more features of inventry control and accounting mathods.

at the time of installation i had some error message like runtime(.netframe
work not sure) so i installed on another computer and copied the whole
directory in vista installed laptop and it worked.. but as it was free
version the serial no. was different whic i wrote after i opened it from
vista installed laptop . i couldnt uninstall it so i deleted the whole
directory from C: drive and restared the pc and again copied the whole
directory from another Pc and NOW IT DIDN'T PROMPTED THE SERIAL NO BOX. SO I
COULDNT WRITE THE STANDARD EDITION SERIAL NO. it is still the free version
with less features.. i think it is due to registry files which are stored in
windwos ...

May be i'm wrong but this is what happened. I have tried the same on xp
based pc but installs properly therefore there is no problem..

i dont know how can i do it...any help is highly appreciated...
regards
 
G

Guest

hi,
i'm using an accounting software. that has three version . one is free
edition and another is standard version and the last one is delux version.
at first i used to try free version.. that was working fine and i did some
work on that for few days and later i bought the standard version as it had
more features of inventry control and accounting mathods.

at the time of installation i had some error message like runtime(.netframe
work not sure) so i installed on another computer and copied the whole
directory in vista installed laptop and it worked.. but as it was free
version the serial no. was different whic i wrote after i opened it from
vista installed laptop . i couldnt uninstall it so i deleted the whole
directory from C: drive and restared the pc and again copied the whole
directory from another Pc and NOW IT DIDN'T PROMPTED THE SERIAL NO BOX. SO I
COULDNT WRITE THE STANDARD EDITION SERIAL NO. it is still the free version
with less features.. i think it is due to registry files which are stored in
windwos ...

May be i'm wrong but this is what happened. I have tried the same on xp
based pc but installs properly therefore there is no problem..

i dont know how can i do it...any help is highly appreciated...
regards
 
G

Guest

hi,
i'm using an accounting software. that has three version . one is free
edition and another is standard version and the last one is delux version.
at first i used to try free version.. that was working fine and i did some
work on that for few days and later i bought the standard version as it had
more features of inventry control and accounting mathods.

at the time of installation i had some error message like runtime(.netframe
work not sure) so i installed on another computer and copied the whole
directory in vista installed laptop and it worked.. but as it was free
version the serial no. was different whic i wrote after i opened it from
vista installed laptop . i couldnt uninstall it so i deleted the whole
directory from C: drive and restared the pc and again copied the whole
directory from another Pc and NOW IT DIDN'T PROMPTED THE SERIAL NO BOX. SO I
COULDNT WRITE THE STANDARD EDITION SERIAL NO. it is still the free version
with less features.. i think it is due to registry files which are stored in
windwos ...

May be i'm wrong but this is what happened. I have tried the same on xp
based pc but installs properly therefore there is no problem..

i dont know how can i do it...any help is highly appreciated...

regards
 
G

Guest

hi again,
i forgot to tell i tried systems mechanic 6 (trial) registry mechanic
5.2(trial) and winxp manager(which doesnt support vista) but nothing
worked..out..

:(
ragards
 
G

Guest

hi again,
i forgot to tell i tried systems mechanic 6 (trial) registry mechanic
5.2(trial) and winxp manager(which doesnt support vista) but nothing
worked..out..

:(
regards
 
C

Conor

hi,
i have installed a few programmes but i dont know how to clean the registry
in vista . does any one have any idea of this. Kindly guide as i cant install
my school projects.
You still probably won't be able to install them as it appears it is
your software that's not compatible.
 
M

Mark Dietz

Why do you say that? Do you know how to manually "clean" the registry? I for one
don't, and I still do so in XP.

I personally would not do anything with the registry as the structure has
changed and registry cleaners that worked in early builds and ones that work
fine in XP can break Vista as it sees things that it thinks are bad or
unnecessary when they are needed.
 
M

Mario Rosario

If you had to ask, I don't hink you should touch the registry let alone
clean it. Try cleaning the monitor instead.
 
C

Colin Barnhorst

I'll take a shot at the first part of your description of the problem but I
am having trouble following what is going on in the second part.

The message probably was that .netframework 1.1 is required for this program
to run. Vista includes .netframework 2.0 but not .netframework 1.1.
Programs can be written to use any version but some programs (or their
installers) may insist on one specific version. (The two versions of the
..netframework live with each other happily so having both side by side is no
problem.)

It is common for registration and serial number info to be stored someplace
different from a program's folders so just copying over a folder would not
neccessarily have also copied over everything that the program needed.

I am confused by the middle part of the second paragraph of your post:

"but as it was free version the serial no. was different whic i wrote after
i opened it from vista installed laptop . i couldnt uninstall it so i
deleted the whole directory from C: drive"

Can you clean that up a bit and make it clearer (step by step)?
 
C

Colin Barnhorst

It looks like the web-based newsreader is giving you false error messages.
Why don't you try using the newsreader in Vista Mail?
 
C

Colin Barnhorst

By whom? Some people do in fact recommend it. I don't but in all fairness
your statement is not true.
 
C

Chad Harris

Nice clear explanation of coexisting .net frameworks by Colin--this
situation often confuses people. The major problem with all the so-called
registry cleaners is that hardly anyone knows what they are in fact really
doing. Many of them will flash a gui that says you have one thousand and
eleventy fifteen reg errors that need fixing or that it has fixed. The
www.winguides.com site has Reg Mechanic and the developer who does that and
creates most of the reg fixes and tweaks for that site is an Australian with
a very deep understanding of the regisstry. From what I can tell though
running it didn't solve your problem which I can't decode. I agree with
the people on this thread that you are better using conventional uinstalls
or if it worked in Vista and it doesn't yet System File Checker, ect. to
troubleshoot your problem.

Ed Bott has written a good article on this (writes the MSFT Press Inside Out
Book on XP and prob Vista) so I'll link you to it:

Ed Bott's Windows Expertise: April 19, 2005 - 10:19 amWhy I don’t use
registry cleaners
http://www.edbott.com/weblog/archives/000643.html

CH
 
C

Colin Barnhorst

As a note on the .netframework thing, 1.1 has an incompatibility issue with
Vista that requires also installing service pack 1 for .netframework 1.1.
Vista will report this during the installation of 1.1 but I thought it worth
noting.
 
M

Mario Rosario

I agree with Steph. Ranjan is trying to get a school project working. He is
under time pressure. He is trying to install an accounting software and has
no clue what the errors mean. That tels me he is a business major. Computer
software is non-trivial. Those that have studied Computer Science or worked
with it knows.
 

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