Re: Having Major Problems
- From: Claude LaFrenière <No_InterNUT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 15:05:35 -0400
Hi / Bonjour *tailspin1* :
> Merci-bien monsieur LaFrenière, pardon mon francais est non-plus bien - en
> englais s'il vous plais:
Well you speak a very good french Sir !
>
> I will thank you for your kind advice. Most of the precautionary steps are
> always taken on a regular basis: cleaning up temp files and internet files,
> deleting un-used programs, de- frag of drives, checking devices and drivers
> etc. My PC tells me that my system is healthy and I regularly carry out these
> checks but I have very little, if no knowledge at all, of DOS operations and
> operating the registry files scares me quite a bit because I was always told
> that unless you know what you are doing, you should never play around with
> the registry files. I have visited all of the websites you advised and have
> ran the associated programs: my system is virus clean and there are no traces
> of any rogue programs. I have a very strong feeling that the errors lie in the
> Hkey registry files somewhere.
>
> If you can offer a step by step guide as to how to deal with this because I
> have tried your advice below:
Sure ! (Please note that those registry modification may not solve the
problems you're talking in your first post but help W xp to run better...)
Text and pictures !
1- Launch the registry editor.
Start | Run | regedit
http://cjoint.com/?guupfbVVo5
2- Select HKEY_CURRENT_USER branch :
http://cjoint.com/?guuqNtPOmP
3- Navigate to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
http://cjoint.com/?guusZe1jkS
4- Here is the key
(It's already done on my system and this is one of the keys you have to create)
http://cjoint.com/?guuvnnuCT1
5- First step when you modify the registry : save the keys...(*always*)
with the "export" option
Right click on the branch (here "explorer)
and
choose "export"
http://cjoint.com/?guuyydtHdb
6- Save the keys under the name of your choice:
http://cjoint.com/?guuAKb1JtK
7- The procedure in # 5 and 6 create a .reg file
This file can be read with notepad (or any text editor)
and
can be "read" with regedit : this *write* the content
of the.reg file into the registry.
-> this is the way to restore the key to the previous sate.
( works for one or few keys :not the entire registry...
See below # 2 ERUNT )
http://cjoint.com/?guuFmmkMOk
8- Here is what this .reg file looks with notepad:
http://cjoint.com/?guuGXk75Yo
Look nice. Right ? ;-)
9- Now you create the new key.
Right click on the right panel of the registry editor :
http://cjoint.com/?guuJdYp6Jm
You have also to choose the key type.
Here it's DWORD ...
10- Now you modify the value of the key
(when the key exist, this is the only things to do *after the export...*)
http://cjoint.com/?guuMzsdpUx
11- This is the last screen where you enter the new value:
http://cjoint.com/?guuNzRKyQN
It's done ! Exit the registry editor.
Keys are automatically changed and saved...
You can also edit the .reg file with notepad to keep only the keys you need:
(Export save a lot of useless things...)
The first modification we're talking about can be done this way :
Select the keys you needs and save the into a new .reg ...
-------------------------------------------------------------- cut here ------------------------------------------
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
"DesktopProcess"=dword:00000001
-------------------------------------------------------------- cut here -------------------------------------------
[The Title "Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00" and the last blank line are important]
You can save this into a .reg file.
This file can be modified with notepad
and "import" to the registry by "reading" with regedit...
Things to know about registry :
1- Avoid all registry "utilities" ( the bugaboo utilities... enhancer, optimizer, cleaner, doctor, Reparing and blah blah blah)
See here :
Some reading about that kind of tool:
in this news group :
From: Claude LaFrenière= <No_InterNUT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Registery Cleaner
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
Message-ID: <1ogoq6bxhb8p6.1af80vr5aezpg$.dlg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 23:09:52 -0400
Read also the advice of James A. Eshelman[MVP] about *bugaboo utilities* :
http://aumha.org/a/health.htm
Don't "bugaboose" your Windows XP ! :-D
2- Registry can be saved with ERUNT (read the documentation)
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
3- Registry can be defragmented ( a nice idea ) with Page Defrag
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PageDefrag.html
4- Install the MS UPHClean service in your system :
User Profile Hive Cleanup Service
A service to help with slow log off and unreconciled profile problems.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=1B286E6D-8912-4E18-B570-42470E2F3582&displaylang=en
5- A "smooth" shutdown is the better way to avoid registry corruption
How to troubleshoot registry corruption issues
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B822705&x=4&y=13
Check this :
"The following sections describe three possible causes for the problem and
provide steps to troubleshoot the problem...."
Avoid headache !!!
8-)
I believe a *New Registry Champion is born* !
:-D
--
Claude LaFrenière [MVP] :-)
«My Principal Design Was To Inform, Not To Amuse Thee.»
Lemuel Gulliver, The Travels (IV:12)
http://climenole.serendipia.net
Soon on www.msmvps.com
Bientôt sur www.msmvps.com
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