Windows Registry Repair
Windows registry repair on a computer can be a very tricky operation if you are not fully up to speed on what effects it can have on your machine. A corrupt windows registry can cause computer freezes and finding the fix can sometimes be like trying to find a needle in a hay stack. It is something that when you are successful at doing, it can give you a sense of accomplishment, but if the repair goes wrong, it can be the cause of a lot of extra work.
If you are not very familiar with the windows registry, then I would first recommend that you don’t go into regedit and start deleting keys our of the registry. This is a high quality recipe for a nice dish of computer failure. It would make more sense to have a Microsoft Certified Registry Repair Program such as Registry Booster 2012 do the heavy lifting for you.
I had the pleasure(a big dose of sarcasm goes here) of working with 2 individuals this week who were traveling overseas. Basically, as soon as they landed at their destination, both of their Windows XP laptops would not boot. My first thought was that they were probably hit with a virus when they connected to the wireless network in the airport. What are the odds of 2 laptops getting the same exact virus as almost the same exact time! They were both getting blue-screens with long stop errors. I new that both were experiencing computer freezes because their windows registry was corrupt.
Ok, so I had diagnosed they they had a corrupt registry and needed a windows registry repair. However, trying to do this over the phone with a user who is in half-way across the world is almost impossible. They made a few phone calls and they were able to get a hold of their local contact. He was going to take a look at their laptops and try to fix them.
Fast forward to the next day. I get a call from one the of users and they report that this ‘computer tech’ was able to get their machines to boot. This was good news until I was able to get logged in to one of the laptops. What this ‘computer tech’ had done was restore a fresh install copy of the Windows XP Registry. This basically meant that all of their programs that were installed had no registry entries and were unusable.
To get these two users up and running at least enough so they could function, I had to copy over the install files for the programs they absolutely needed to finish out their trip. This took hours of copying files because their connection was not great and they were half-way around the world.
In the end, I was able to get these two users up and running at least enough so that they could function and finish out their trip, but due to this ‘computer tech’ not know how to do a proper windows registry repair, I will have two laptops to rebuild when they arrive back home.
So the moral of this post is to NOT mess with the windows registry if you don’t know much about it. Let a certified program like Regcure do the work for you. You won’t be sorry you did! Learn more about windows registry repair. 
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