Partial Scans
Registry Booster can perform scans on particular sections of your Registry
rather than all of it.
To select the desired section of your registry you must configure the
relevant settings. By
default, Registry Booster performs complete scans - note the checkbox
next to Complete Registry Scan is ticked -  . If
you click on the checkbox, you will notice that all the Registry sections
become unchecked.
The following explains with each section of the registry relates to:
Registry Booster will search for currently
installed COM
and ActiveX
objects. Registry Booster performs complete heuristic analysis of ActiveX,
OLE,
COM sections as they are interlinked and interdependent.
Registry Booster will search for the software
settings of the currently logged user for invalid references.
Registry Booster will search for all the
system software settings for all users. Most Windows items are hidden
within this section.
Registry Booster analyses your registry to
detect entries that refer to shared control files or Dynamic
Link Libraries (DLLs)
that are not or were never on your hard drive. Certain entries such as
application DLLs may remain uninstalled and thus orphaned from parent
applications. Registry
Booster detects all such entries and repairs them.
Device Drivers are important software files
that Windows loads into memory when it starts up to support specific hardware
devices like printers. Symptoms of having invalid device drivers include
messages upon startup similar to: "This file is either referenced
in your Registry or your Win.ini ... You should either remove this reference
or reinstall this file’s associated application...". Sometimes if
a problem is too serious Windows can fail to start up normally. Registry
Booster analyses and detects for such errors.
Registry Booster fixes all the file extensions
that are no longer associated with applications installed on your computer
system. Many application uninstallers remove the main program files and
directories from your hard drive, but do not remove the associated file
extensions from the Registry. (See, Invalid
File Associations below)
A file association
allows you to control certain aspects of how the Shell's
treats different file types.
These aspects include:
Which application is launched when
you double-click a file (e.g. MS Word for all docs) The icon that appears for a file
by default (e.g.,  ) How the file type appears when viewed
in Microsoft Windows Explorer (i.e., as thumbnails, details, list, filmstrip,
etc.) Which commands appear in a file's
shortcut menu. Other user interface features, such
as ToolTips, and tile info.
The Shell associates these aspects with file types, which
are based on extensions. The Windows registry stores the data that define
file associations.
In the Windows Explorer window below, the Shell displays
different icons for each file, based on the icon associated with the file's
type. If you were to double click the New Microsoft Word Document, the
Shell launches MS Word and uses it to open the file because, on this system,
MS Word is associated with .doc files. You can control these actions using
file associations.
Sometimes a file association is created but
the program to be opened is removed or deleted. This creates a problem
for Windows when you try to open a file by clicking an icon whose related
program is no longer available on your system. Registry Booster will search
for such invalid file associations and report them to you.
Many applications store the associated program
executable (e.g., firefox.exe launches Mozilla Firefox) within their installation
directory. Sometimes these program executables are moved to some other
location but their associations are not updated - such invalid or missing
references keep cluttering the registry. When ever you launch a program,
Windows first search Application Path's Section and missing entries will
only increase such search time - delaying program launch.
Windows store each reference to a font in
the registry. Some of the installed font faces may not appeal to all users
and consequently are removed - thus failing to register changes within
the Windows Registry. If
the font section is not cleaned regularly, Windows can start showing different
font faces instead of those expected/desired.
Some applications may be configured to run
as soon as you start up Windows while others may automatically configure
some processes
to run automatically at start up without the need for user configuration
(e.g., schedulers, Anti-spyware guards and Windows Update). As applications
register themselves with the Windows Registry, they also indicate references
to the processes and locations that the operating system needs to run
upon start up. Registry
Booster analyses the Windows Registry to repair these references.
Windows provides you facility to associate
an application event with a sound event, for example, the "ding dong"
sound you hear when an application presents a message Box. If a sound
file used for any event is missing, applications and Windows are unable
to handle the event resulting in such unexpected occurrences as like playing
irregular sounds. Registry
Booster repairs references to sounds and other events that are missing
or inexisting.
The uninstall section within your registry
contains references to the currently installed applications which shown
in Add/Remove section from the Control Panel. Although you may have already
have uninstalled a program it may continue to show itself in the registry
and in the Add/Remove section of your control. Registry Booster will report
and repair all such errors.
All applications following Microsoft standards
must register their help files to the Windows Registry. Registry
Booster looks for missing, erroneous or orphaned links.
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