Reg vac files ???

[jkac123]

I used RegVac for the 1st time and it can be confusing. It says it found 536 bad file names, However it also says do not remove them until you check them all first. I do not know about that part? I thought it was suppose to do all the hard work?

[wyvrn]

Go to Edit and click Select All. Then click the button in bottom right hand corner to remove them all (forgot its name).

[jkac123]

wyvrn,
You are saying not to worry about weather or not they are important? Just delete them?

[wyvrn]

Well delete at your own risk I guess. But I assumed (may make an *** of me yet http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif) that since the progam's whole purpose was to find rogue registry keys, that it would be ok to delete them all. Of course no one can guarantee you that it won't screw up your computer, so it might be a good idea to make backups of your current registry first. Find user.dat, copy it to another directory. Do the same with system.dat. That way if your machine hoses, you can boot to dos mode, move the files back to the correct directory and reboot.

[This message has been edited by wyvrn (edited 04-05-2001).]

[jkac123]

wyvrn,
I am not really that good at understanding how to back up all these files you mentioned. I am running Win Me, will this help in any way to back these up easier?

[wyvrn]

WinME does its own backups, if regcleans screws it up you can boot to dos mode and run scanreg /restore to get back your registry from a previous date (this works in Win98, I admit not sure if WinME has this feature, but I am guessing it does). In any case, you need a bootable floppy to restore your registry. You can usually create these by going to Control Panel | Add_Remove programs | Startup disk.

[Kruppt]

If you are talking about RegVac produced by Super Win Software, It saves all deletes in a undo file(.reg) you can reintall within the program its self or double click on the last undo#########.reg file in the programs directory(RegVac) to put your registry back to where it was before you had the problem. (choose the most recent one after the clean job that created the problem. I have been using it for sometime and haven't had a problem yet. You do have to be careful of cleaning the software section. You have a choice of which sections you want to clean as well. But if you do not know what keys are bogus in the software section, don't miss with that cleaner till you do.