Re: Repair Windows

Tech-Archive recommends: Repair Windows Errors & Optimize Windows Performance

Rick,

Thanks for your useful advice. I tried to repair Windows without success
since I could not provide administrator password. Looking at accounts and
I am the administrator user. I do not need any password to logon as the
computer is used by myself only. Is there any way to recover the
administrator password?

Ray

"Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" <rick@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uR$KRLEkFHA.3936@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi Ray,
>
> A repair installation is similar to the "over the top" installation of old
> in that all it touches are the system files. The registry would be
> affected only by the replaced entries. It will not remove the dead entries
> in there now. Frankly, they harm nothing to leave them there and are best
> just left. WinXP does not suffer from registry bloat like some older
> versions of Windows did. Some may suggest a registry cleaner, I would
> recommend against it as everyone I've seen removes targeted files and
> those that it *thinks* should be removed and almost always bugger up an
> otherwise working system.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
> www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>
> "Ray" <NoSpam-ray.ck.li@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:uavwAoDkFHA.1464@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>I have installed many software on my computers in the past and now leave
>>the most useful ones. I notice the registry that lots of uninstalled
>>programs still left in the registry. Of course I can do a clean
>>installation but it will take a great deal of time to re-install and
>>re-configure all other software. Some configurations have been forgotten.
>>It would be a very painful and time consuming process. Is Repair Windows
>>just to install Windows over the existing one but un-touch other software?
>>Is it also give a clean registry to me?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ray
>>
>
>


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