Windows Registry Repair

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 1:58 pm

I have Windows XP and am trying to find the windows registry repair file that is supposedly already installed on my computer. My sister found it last week when she was visiting, but I am lost. Step by step, how do I get to it?

minks · Post by **minks** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 2:06 pm

along-for-the-ride wrote: I have Windows XP and am trying to find the windows registry repair file that is supposedly already installed on my computer. My sister found it last week when she was visiting, but I am lost. Step by step, how do I get to it?

Oiy Tough Q I don't know if I can find that again either, I will watch here for a good answer.

YOu know I heard it is not a good place to mess around with? Good luck.

pina · Post by **pina** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 2:16 pm

along-for-the-ride wrote: I have Windows XP and am trying to find the windows registry repair file that is supposedly already installed on my computer. My sister found it last week when she was visiting, but I am lost. Step by step, how do I get to it?

Hope I can help

There is no registry repair file in xp. but if you go to start....run and type in regedit and click ok. you might be able to find what your looking for.

or go to google to find an application to repair.

tibsie · Post by **tibsie** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 12:15 pm

Be very careful when using regedit, one wrong move and you could paralyse your computer.

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gmc · Post by **gmc** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 1:53 pm

try www.pctools.com

It's a free trial download I eventually bought-I was having problems with a 98se computer from which I had deleted part of th registry-did a good job of fixing it. I went ahead and bought the download. it seems pretty good and i now use i on an XP installation to keep things tip top. It's australian but their stuff seems pretty good at least they answer e-mail queries.

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 1:35 pm

Thanks for the tips guyz!:)

capt_buzzard · Post by **capt_buzzard** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 1:52 pm

Go to www.microsoft.com

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 1:43 pm

I believe I found what I was really looking for.

My Computer/C Drive/properties/tools/ error checking (which can be run after restart)

This,ofcource, is not windows registry repair, per say, but it is the built-in error repair system for Windows XP.

randall · Post by **randall** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 12:30 pm

'evening all, randall here,

AND isn't it a lovely evening evening away up off the map in northern Scotland - that's where where my English friends always tell me I am living - not even off the edge of the map - off the edge of the world!

A computer question,

I, like so many, have a computer that developed from a HP to a Vobis to almost everything as I struggled to get the thing repaired cheaply and hunted around the various local computer experts (?)

I started with Windows 95, then one day it came back with 98 installed, then it came back changed from an AT to an ATX with the name "CTech" on a nice little badge on the front,

Another fitted Millenium and another installed 2000 but finally I bought Windows XP Home Edition and, at last. was legal - as Microsoft like to say.

On some of these programmes I remember that I had set the programme to save what I was typing every few minutes - it could be adjusted. One minute to twenty minutes, I believe.

Is this facility available on XP or WORD, or any other common programme you use to write your memoirs or other rubbish which your descendents will likely throw away anyway.

Reading about "REGEDIT" brings back a nmemory.

Both my daughter and her husband were taught by IBM from universityused: and therefore know quite a lot about computers but to get any help from them, is like getting teeth out of a hen.

Anyway, during one meal my son-in-law mentioned that "REGEDIT" might help with some of my problems - no elaberation - just that - "Try REGEDIT"

I did but got nowhere as I had not been taught to work in DOS.

The next time I took my computer in for repair and went back to collect it - and part from a considerable sum of money, to boot- the repair man rounded on me almost vehmently and stated bluntly, "You've been mucking about in REGEDIT!"

Then followed about half an hour of non stop diatribe as to what dmage I could do going into that area - if you don't know what you are doing.

And I didn't - most decidedly.

So all I can recommend is either go to school and learn or just steer well clear of "REGEDIT".

God Bless All.

randall

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 1:55 pm

Thank you, Randall for your rousing sermon.

Rest assure, I do not go into DOS on Windows XP, except when I had a tech on the phone guiding me along the way. (I had a problem with my internet service at some point and called my ISP tech to help fix it and he/we did.)

I am very careful about what I delete and what I download. I confess I learned fron the Windows 95 and Windows 98 system I had previously.