Registry Healer v.4.2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GENERAL INFORMATION ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright (C) 2000-2003 KsL Software. All Rights Reserved. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS 1. OVERVIEW 2. VERSION HISTORY 3. REGISTERING 4. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 5. INSTALLATION 6. UNINSTALLATION 7. UPGRADING 8. CONTACT INFORMATION 9. INFORMATION ABOUT OTHER OUR PRODUCTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ OVERVIEW ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Usually, after a couple of installations/deinstallation of different software products, the registry becomes full of nagging file references pointing to where one day the files were, but not any more. With help of Registry Healer you can heal Windows? Registry. Registry Healer scans registry for orphan file and folder references, finds these files or folders on your drives (if they're moved from initial places) and corrects registry entries to found objects. If your regitry still keeps links to file(s) of erased application, Registry Healer will find these invalid entries and you might want to delete them. Also, Registry Healer can find invalid font references, obsolete Start Menu items, empty registry keys, invalid application paths, invalid registered help files, autostart registry references and offers to correct them. So, running Registry Healer regularly will keep your registry always clean and correct. Registry Healer allows to: - find and correct invalid file and folder references in Windows? 9x/NT/ME/2000/XP/2003 Registry; - find and delete empty registry keys; - find and correct invalid font entries; - find and delete obsolete Start Menu items; - find and correct invalid application paths; - find and correct invalid registered help files; - find and correct invalid shared DLLs references; - find and correct invalid autostart registry references; - find and delete unused software registry references; - search for matches of invalid entries on user's computer; - open folders to which invalid registry keys refer; - open Windows? RegEdit at invalid registry entries; - full registry backup before any changes; - backup only modified registry entries as RegEdit4 files, so you are always able to restore certain registry changes; - save the list of found invalid entries into a text file; - print the list of found invalid entries; - run the program from the Control Panel. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ VERSION HISTORY ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Legend: (+) a feature is added (*) a feature is improved/changed (-) a bug is fixed (we hope so) New in version 4.2.0 + option to change period of full registry backups; + disable screensaver while scan is running; + option to show/hide splash window while scanning; + Appearance settings page; + option to hide progressbar on registry scan; + option to hide progressbar on disks scan; + option to hide enumeration of scanned registry keys; + option to hide enumeration of scanned directories; + option to freeze the found entries list while scanning the registry; - main window "hungs" on creation restore point under Windows XP SP1; New in version 4.1.0 + menu item for setting correction for highlighted items to "Cut invalid substring"; - replacing REG_EXPAND_SZ value by REG_SZ in some cases; + Invalid Paths & Empty Keys scan keys checkboxes; + New invalid entry correction - "Cut invalid substring"; + "Set correction for highlighted items to.." menu item; + list of excluded registry strings; + list of folders excluded from disk search for corrections; + new advanced settings page; + pop-up help file on first run; * searching for file matches on hard drives is now much faster; + "Compact Registry" shortcut for Win98-ME; + compacting the registry from main menu command; - fixed problem with "send bugreport" - sysrep.exe would not run .ini file; - bug with correcting registry without backup.reg files; New in version 4.0.1 + open backup folder on uninstall; - bug with saving @="" instead of empty key; - bug with Pause/Stop main menu items; * standard font in all dialogs; New in version 4.0 - new icons; - new more safe invalid paths detection algorithm; - checking Auto Run entries for invalid paths; - checking the registry for unused software entries; - new "Pick for correction" menu: Highlighted|All entries -> Pick|Unpick|Invert; - adding multiple selected entries into excluded lists; - many internal enhancements; New in version 3.4.2 - option to hide the dialogs "Excluded drives" and "Folders where to search for corrections" in Expert mode; - "Yes", "No", "Cancel" and "Help" button captions are now translatable into other languages; - creating full registry backup before the registry scan is now optional; - the new "Invert selection" menu command; - excluded drives and search paths lists are sorted alphabetically now; New in version 3.4.1 - the scan progressbar at the bottom; - help window before full registry restore; - checking for another program instance running; - checking for write permission in backup folder; - new backup file name format: prefix_yyyy_mm_dd_hhmmss.reg; - connection to Internet using default internet connection settings; - correction registry data of REG_MULTI_SZ type; New in version 3.4.0 - Registry Healer control panel applet; - changing treee view colors and color schemes; - hide "Empty keys" option in Easy mode; - small bug with modifying a parameter in a root hive - fixed; - creating/restore full registry backups (98/ME/2000/XP/2003); - option to compact the registry in Windows? 98/ME; - show the scan progress percentages in taskbar; New in version 3.3.2 - save list of found invalid entries into text file; - print list of found invalid entries; New in version 3.3 - finding and correction invalid shared DLLs; - a bug with long registry values was fixed; New in version 3.2 - finding and correction obsolete Start Menu items; - finding and correction invalid application paths; - finding and correction invalid registered help files; - some interface enhancements; New in version 3.1 - tested with Windows? XP; - XP themes support; - finding and deleting empty registry keys; - finding and correction invalid font entries; - color highligthing of invalid registry parameters and values; - list of excluded invalid path entries; - list of excluded empty entries; - list of excluded font entries; - supporting NT/2000/XP/2003 read-only permissions of registry keys; - picking only selected entries for correction; New in version 3.0 - new program interface; - new smart path finding algorithm - for example if a registry key refers to nonexistant file "c:\program files\shared\fastlink.dll" and your drive contains at least two matches: "c:\temp\fastlink.dll" and "d:\programs\shared\fastlink.dll" then Registry Healer will correct the registry key to "d:\programs\shared\fastlink.dll" as this path has more coincidences with the original path; - correction of compound entries: entries like 'c:\program files\IsUninst.exe /f "%1" "%2" "%3" "%4"' or 'C:\WINDOWS\rundll.exe setupx.dll,InstallHinfSection Remove_DivX 132' will be corrected if the file "IsUninst.exe" or "rundll.exe" will be found at a new path. - two program modes: Expert Mode with closely registry correction control and Easy Mode with simple one-mouse-click control and with default the most convenient settings; - pause option while scanning either registry or hard drives; New in version 2.3.2 - bug with cleaning registry keys that are followed by "\1" or "\2" or any other parameter (for ex. "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\VBSCRIPT.DLL\1") has been fixed. Users of Windows? ME should use the latest version to avoid loss of WinME help reference from the registry. New in version 2.3.1 - automatically detecting available languages (.lng files in the program home folder); - remember path to the last used folder for backup; - checking for duplicated folders in search list; New in version 2.3 - help system has been enhanced; - new "quick open folder" toolbutton; - on Win9x the "Last modified" column hides (as registry timestamps are supported only on NT4/2000); - backup files are automatically named using current date and path to temporary directory; New in version 2.2 - some minor changes; - few bugs fixed. New in version 2.1 - new more intellectual scanning algorithm; - main menu is added and some interface changes (so it is possible to use keyboard only with the program); - bug deals with closing Registry Healer while it scans registry was fixed; New in version 2.0 - open folder(s) where invalid...
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