Re: How do I get into registry

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

Looneytuner <Looneytuner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I posted a couple days ago about phantom programs that aren't there on a
drive that crashed.
i have done everything in system mechanic 6 to no avail.
name a good program for editing the registry.

TIA

For cleaning up a large number of registry references to a
non-existant drive you could use RegSeeker (free) from
http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm

1. Make sure you create a manual System Restore point before running
RegSeeker.
2. Make sure you leave RegSeeker configured to make backups of
everything you it removes.

I used RegSeeker to resolve a similar problem. In my situation it
removed over 15,000 registry entries relating to a Visual Studio
install on a failed drive.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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