How to repair Registry of Windows PC

This article explains how to inspect and repair registry errors to improve the performance of your PC. If you are a Windows user then you will most probably be aware of the fact that the registry gets corrupted over time resulting in an overall decreased performance of your computer. At times registry errors can also make your PC to freeze down and hang up every now and then causing a serious annoyance to the user. At this point, the registry needs a serious repair to bring your PC back to it’s life. Well before I tell you how to repair the registry lets see what causes registry to get corrupted.

Registry errors may occur due to installing too many applications/softwares from time to time without verifying the publishers. This may create invalid entries in the registry hive leading to errors. With the Internet boom and the era of freeware with free downloads, people often install programs from untrusted sources which results in serious damage to the registry. Since the registry is a crucial component of the Windows operating system, damage to this registry can cause system performance to drop down considerably.

 

 

The best and the easiest way to repair your registry is by using a Registry Repair Tool (Registry Cleaner) which will automatically scan the registry to find invalid entries and will repair it by removing the errors with in no time. A registry cleaner is the simple and safest solution to repair registry and bring your PC back to it’s life without the need to re-install the Windows. We recommend the following registry cleaner to repair the Windows registry

Perfect Optimizer

Perfect Optimizer is one of the best and award winning registry cleaner that repairs registry to avoid PC errors such as unwanted shutdown, freezing, crashing and more. Perfect optimizer will

• Repair registry and increases your PC performance by upto 70%
• Repair registry to fix DLL errors and invalid shortcuts
• Free up virtual memory to avoid error messages
• Performs Defragmentation and Compression of the registry
• Repair registry to fix blue screen errors, system crashes, startup errors and more…

Visit Perfect Optimizer Homepage for more information on this program.

 CAN I MANUALLY REPAIR THE REGISTRY?

Windows registry has a very complex structure with hundreds of thousands of entries embedded in it. A corrupt registry may contain thousands of invalid entries and errors in it and hence it is impractical and almost impossible to manually inspect, find and repair those errors. Also manual registry repair involves serious risk and can lead to a total system break down if done improperly. Except you are a highly experienced Windows user or a Windows expert, users are not encouraged to tamper with the registry.

Hence using a registry repair tool is the safest and easiest way to repair the registry and improve the overall performance of your PC. Registry repair tools will not only repair the registry but also maintains it’s health in a good condition so as to avoid any future damage to it. It is recommended that you periodically (daily or weekly) perform registry scans using these tools to repair the errors as and when they come up and keep your PC’s health at it’s best. Repair the registry and make your PC blazing fast like never before!

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clear your hard drive of huge

Don’t you hate it how Windows doesn’t show the size of folders unless you right-click and choose properties. Well, that can take a long time if your looking through your whole hard drive, trying to find out what is taking up all that space.
TreeSize Free is a free, small program that shows you the biggest folders on your hard drive and then gives you easy access to viewing or deleting them. If you are planning on using the application a lot, then I would run the installer but if not, then just download the EXE and run.

If you are on Windows Vista, or Windows 7, then run the program as an Administrator. When you first open TreeSize Free, you are presented with a blank screen:

Goto “Scan” at the top and then choose the drive that you want to “review”. Almost instantly results start appearing for your drive and if you haven’t touched any of the settings, then the largest file/folder is at the top of the list. Included behind each folder is a yellow-to-orange bar which shows you visually how much of drive it is actually taking up. Hovering over a folder/file displays a detailed tooltip that shows more than enough information for the average power user!  Below is a quick screenshot of what it looked like after I scanned my Windows 7 machine.

When looking at a folder, you can click the “+” to expand the folder and see the largest files/folders in that folder. When you decided what files/folders to delete you can easily right click on them and choose delete, or if you know the program that the folder is associated to, then you can just go ahead and uninstall or change that program should you want more space. A good idea would be to remove more installed components and favor using the cd when running the program (this may not be supported by all installations).
If you want to delete a file from within the Program Files directory, you need to run the application as an Administrator. Also, I would NOT recomend deleting anything from the ‘Windows” folder.
Overall the program is very simple and yet very informative. If you plan on using the program a lot then I would install it, but if you are just planning on using it a couple of times (when needed) then the downloaded zip should be fine!

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Cannot see your USB device?

Did you plug in a USB device (storage) such as a flash drive, memory card, mp3 player, phone, etc and you don’t see its “drive” in My Computer?
This may be a problem with your drive mappings or a driver problem.
I will explain the drive mappings ( drive letter) and will explain how to see the driver error.

(Remember, clicking on an image, will open a new window/tab hopefully increasing the size and ability to understand it better!)
— Assigning A Drive Letter —
1) Plug In Your Device! and make sure, if its the first time, that you see something like

2) Check In My Computer for the device, if not found…
3) Goto Start > Run > diskmgmt.msc
4) Select a disk without a drive letter already assigned, and one that is “REMOVABLE”!

4) Choose “Change Drive Letter and Paths…”
5) Click Add
6) Choose a drive letter (not A: or B: (floppy drives) or C: through E: (cd/dvd drives & hard drives), the default drive should be sufficient.

7) Click Ok Twice
8 ) Your diskmgmt.msc window should now look like the following…

Note: If you received a type of error, please comment below.
9) Now in My Computer there should be your drive
— If Your Device Is Not Listed —
1) Make sure it is plugged in…
2) Open Start > Run > devmgmt.msc
3) Check for any “errors” and attempt to fix them
4) If you are having trouble, feel free to once again, comment below, or email me.
5) Try reinstalling the “drivers” supplied with your device (optional)

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