Earl,

Pages 2-15 through 2-19 in the book will give you a pretty good idea
of what goes on, but there is some detail missing.

Clean, as you said just removes the RECENT docs, the START-RUN list,
and a couple odds-n-ends.

Repair attempts to fix pathing problems due to moved files.  Clicking
on the REPAIR ALL button will perform a system wide search for the missing
file.  If it can locate the file in a new directory, then it will put it
on the list of repairable links.  Once you FIX all the links it found,
then you must manually work with each one that is left.  Click on the
link in the top window and then use the REPAIR button.  At this point,
you can: click into the white box and manually fix it, BROWSE to find
it yourself, DELETE the whole link, SAVE it as is, CANCEL the whole process,
or get more HELP.

Page 2-18 explains all this (sort of).

Tune Up is nothing more than a database compact tool, it just removes wasted
space and (if needed) rearranges things into a more efficient and logical
order.

The Registry Pro is basically a new and improved REGEDIT with a friendlier
face.

NONE of the options in the Nuts & Bolts program will delete a registry entry
without asking you first.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: PCSOFT - Personal Computer software discussion list
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Earl Truss
> Sent: Friday, June 05, 1998 5:31 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [PCSOFT] Nuts & Bolts Registry Wizard
>
>
> I'm trying out Nuts & Bolts.  I had a lot of entries in my Registry from
> old software that I've uninstalled.  I ran the Registry Wizard
> and used the
> options in order ... Backup, Clean, Repair, Tuneup.  Clean appears to just
> delete lists like the recent documents and run lists.  Repair listed 363
> orphans, most of which were old programs.  I told it to "repair"
> them since
> I could not find any way to delete then even though that was really what I
> wanted to do.  I tried running Repair again and got 350-some orphans so I
> guess a few were fixed but most of the ones due to missing programs were
> still there.  So I tried running Tuneup.  When it finished, System.dat had
> been reduced from 2.5MB to under 2MB.  I went through Registry
> Wizard again
> and all the orphans were gone ... or at least not listed.
>
> The question:  Everything seems to have worked OK but I'm curious about
> where the entries got deleted.  The way this program works is not obvious
> to me since I could not find the operation I wanted to perform but it
> appears to have done it without my knowing exactly when it was done.  I'm
> not sure I like that.
>