Channel 9 Forums - Coffeehouse - The Junk Drawer http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 Forums - Coffeehouse - The Junk Drawer http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums en Fri, 24 May 2013 15:58:23 GMT Fri, 24 May 2013 15:58:23 GMT Rev9 7 -7 -1 Coffeehouse - The Junk Drawer What a joy it is day in day out to deal with Registry corruption or, at least, Registry internal inconsistency.   A rather popular Registry Cleaner utility (not recommended by any means by Microsoft) crashes on my machine because the Registry is messed up.  Not by me, but by certain very, very expensive commercial software vended not by Microsoft.   I'm now running the Recovery Partition to reinitialize the Registry so I can proceed.  One day computers will have either a Registry that will not become internally inconsistent or some better designed catch basin for the memory hole.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/The-Junk-Drawer/cae5098245bb4675bc9b9e25002b23e5#cae5098245bb4675bc9b9e25002b23e5 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 02:37:04 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/The-Junk-Drawer/cae5098245bb4675bc9b9e25002b23e5#cae5098245bb4675bc9b9e25002b23e5 earnshaw 7 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/earnshaw/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - The Junk Drawer The "Last Known Good Configuration" startup option uses a recently saved copy of the registry, have you tried that?

I've never personally had a problem with my registry going kaput in the past 12 or so years; it wasn't Uniblue, was it?

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/The-Junk-Drawer/78e8b736d1bd4fe69cd89e25002f1fb7#78e8b736d1bd4fe69cd89e25002f1fb7 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 02:51:34 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/The-Junk-Drawer/78e8b736d1bd4fe69cd89e25002f1fb7#78e8b736d1bd4fe69cd89e25002f1fb7 W3bbo 7 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/W3bbo/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - The Junk Drawer The last know good is written on a the first sucessfull login after boot (or it was back in the NT days)

These days system restore is your friend in such cases.

Only ever had a hadfull of machines that have gone down to bad registry and they could mostly be traced to bad hardware or tools that 'claimed' to clean up my registry.

 

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/The-Junk-Drawer/d82055acca624c6884a49e25017d719f#d82055acca624c6884a49e25017d719f Fri, 05 Nov 2010 23:08:47 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/The-Junk-Drawer/d82055acca624c6884a49e25017d719f#d82055acca624c6884a49e25017d719f fknight 7 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/fknight/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - The Junk Drawer The less one knows about the registry the better. And, when in doubt, don't mess with it.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/The-Junk-Drawer/d874ad915eb74fb6b1179e260029aa2b#d874ad915eb74fb6b1179e260029aa2b Sat, 06 Nov 2010 02:31:41 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/The-Junk-Drawer/d874ad915eb74fb6b1179e260029aa2b#d874ad915eb74fb6b1179e260029aa2b Joshua Ross 7 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Jsoh/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - The Junk Drawer yup, "registry cleaner" = malware.

As does "driver updater", "adware remover" and most things that call themselves "virus checkers" and "firewall". All junk that'll mess up your PC. Stick with what you can download from Microsoft of the vendor of your hardware.

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