Good morning everyone.
Regarding the list of orphans, after running the "Fix All" option; can you
delete the remaining values safely, if you have determined that the file or
folder is no longer on the system?
I have a number of orphan .tmp references from the IE-4 install.
Thanks,
Gary
Gary Perkins
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-----Original Message-----
From: PCSOFT - Personal Computer software discussion list
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Jim Meagher
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 1998 12:00 AM
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Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Nuts & Bolts Registry Wizard
Earl,
I think you are trying to make this more complicated or magical
than it really is.
I had written up about 5 paragraphs to explain it again, but then
I needed to double check something so I got the book out. After rereading
page 2-17, I realized that they explained the whole process much more
eloquently and susinctly than I ever could. The only thing I could
add to what they said is:
When they use the term ORPHAN, they are refering to a registry
entry that has a path statement that no longer points to a file
(because the file was deleted or moved, or the registry is corrupted).
At each step, the wizard tests your system and then generates a
diagnostic REPORT. After each report is created and displayed,
you have three basic options:
CANCEL -- exit and do nothing -- NO CHANGES MADE.
REPAIR (or FIX) -- MANUALLY repair the invalid entries one at a time,
by editing, searching for, or deleting the item.
REPAIR (or FIX) ALL -- repair all simply searches all hard drives for
the missing files. Fix all updates the registry.
The ADVANCED button will transfer the report to the REGISTRY PRO
application (regedit on steriods), and then close down the wizard.
At NO time, does the wizard change anything on it's own. You must
click a button to make any and ALL changes.
Jim Meagher
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: PCSOFT - Personal Computer software discussion list
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Earl Truss
> Sent: Monday, June 08, 1998 1:45 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Nuts & Bolts Registry Wizard
>
>
>
> In effect, what it appeared to do was to delete entries without asking me
> explicitly if I wanted them deleted.
>
> > From: Jim Meagher <[log in to unmask]>
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> > >
>
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