How do I clean my Windows Registry?
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Try any of the free registry cleaning programs at the link below.
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manually delete them, search them out with windows search
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You will probably have to clean the harddrive and then reformat it. It has like 15 registry lines and if you miss one, it comes back.
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I know of a free registry cleaner that is better than Registry Mechanic.  It's called RegSeeker.  It will search your registry for invalid entries and has a few other nifty tools.  Link is in sources.
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You can see most registry cleaner freeware and some shareware to list on http://www.regsofts.com. Browse the categories, you will find something worthy of downloading onto your system. For example: \nFree Windows Registry Repair   http://www.regsofts.com/free_registry_repair/registry_repair.htm\nRegSeeker   http://www.regsofts.com/freeware/regseeker.htm\nCCleaner   http://www.regsofts.com/freeware/ccleaner.htm
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First and foremost, check if you've got a "programme files" folder! \n\nIt's located in Default Drive://Programme Files\n\nIf you've got it, please enter the folder and confirm whether you've got the folders uttering the names of programmes you've installed. If Yes, then this leads some problem with the registry or so. Reasons for this perticular matter is very insignificant.(Its very limited chance.) You could have simply deleted a high-priority reference folder, or simply due to a spy/ad ware. If your answer was No, then begin installing softwares.(just kidding!)
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Clean your system registry using CCleaner or any other registry cleaner and download a new setup file of your messenger..
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Regardless of how you go about cleaning your registry you should always back it up, first. \n\nRegarding tools - as a programmer of 25 years plus experience, I could not recommend any 'automatic' tool that purports to be effective. The primary reason for this is the rapid pace of evolution that is the current nature of the computing world. In other words - how could any program truly be aware of all the items within your registry that may or may not be beneficial? How could it possibly know all of the requirements of your particular software installations? It can't.\n\nWith qualified knowledge though, there are a number of things you can use to help find items that might be ill-advised within your registry as well as plain old branch by branch inspection.\n\nIf you do not FULLY understand the consequences of any action you may take - do not take it.\n\nIf you think you are going to greatly enhance the performance of your system by tweaking the registry - you likely are not going to without an extensive background regarding the specific area you are hoping to improve.\n\nUsing quality spyware removers and anti-virus products AND researching your start up list will yield the most significant improvements. Searching Yahoo for 'start-up list, windows' may yield some very informative articles.
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A good program that can be used to clean all the unnecessary junk off of your computer (including cleaning erronuous registry entries) is CCleaner. It can be downloaded at http://www.ccleaner.com/.
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That wasnt a very bright move on your part.\n\nAre you using XP?\n\nif so, try a system restore\n\nClick Start->Help and support->Undo changes with system restore\n\nSelect Undo changes to my computer\n\nPick a point before you did the registry cleaner.\n\nHOPEFULLY  that will work.
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Try cleaning out your registry with http://ccleaner.com\nits free
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you can go to regedit and do it urself  or go to tucows.com and download a free registry cleaner and go that way with it
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I find TuneUp Utilities to be better than C-Cleaner for registry cleaning. C-cleaner is free, but you can try TuneUp Utilities free for 30 days to get a good cleaning in.\nhttp://www.tune-up.com/products/tuneup-utilities
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in all honesty, once your registry is damaged, there is almost nothing that can be done to heal it.. but if you're looking for a great tool to help maintain and keep it tidy, go here and download this..\n\nhttp://www.worldstart.com/weekly-download/archives/reg-cleaner4.3.htm
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There is registry manager software distributed with windows.  The executable is called regedit.exe; it doesn't get any better than that.
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My first question is how do you know it's your registry, are you getting a lot of errors in the system?  Or is your computer just running very slow?  Click on the link I've supplied.  In the upper right hand quarter of the screen.  You'll see the program, install this program to find the problems in your registry.  It's also very good at finding temporary Internet files and cleaning them out.  You will want to run the registry cleaner three times, this will clear out 90% of all the errors in your system.  Good luck!
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yes, its safe,it cleans only the custom settings from registry that were made after the windows instalation, these tools have concept to understand the windows default registry settings, so they only clean the settings that do not match with windows default settings.hope  u understand