Thread: Five More EssentiaL Registry-Tweaking Tips

EDITING THE Windows Registry has the potential to improve your PC's performance, but making a mistake can destroy the operating system, as I noted last month when
I gave you five important pieces of advice for edit¬ing your Windows Regis¬try. Here are five more things you need to know to keep your machine alive when you're messing with the Registry.

1. Determining which bad Registry entries to remove or repair can give you a migraine. I suggest inspecting a list of potential problem entries, focusing on things that look familiar, and then making only a few minor changes at first. After a couple. of days, if your PC doesn't do anything weird or erratic, try another scan, this time allowing the Registry cleaner to do its work more aggressively.

You must, however, examine very carefully entries marked with labels such as 'Caution', 'Extreme Caution', or some other indicator of risk. Unless you're an advanced user and can clearly identify the scope of the entry, just leave it alone.



2. Once you give the cleaner the go-ahead and it starts removing Registry entries, walk away from your Pc. Go play with the dog, have some coffee, or watch TV. That way, you won't be making changes to the Registry while it's being cleaned.

3. If you discover a problem (for instance, maybe Excel no longer launches), don't panic. And don't do anything aside from using the Registry cleaner's restore feature, which ensures that only the changes the program just made are reversed. That will likely set things right. To be on the safe side, back up your Registry with ERUNT while it's still in good shape; then you can restore it quickly if there's ever a problem.

4. You needn't perform a Registry scan more than once a month or so, especially if you don't often

make changes to your Pc. Scanning more frequently won't hurt any thing, but you're unlikely to see a significant performance boost.

5. Are you a techno-fanatic who needs the Registry to be squeaky clean, with absolutely no stray entries and trimmed of all fat? There's no harm in using multiple freebie Registry cleaners-provided you use them one at a time. You might also want to select a Registry cleaner (such as jv16 PowerTools or Registry First Aid) that includes a defragger, or cho' ose a free defragger such as Auslogics Registry Defrag

Dear *.*
Our IT dept. has disable the option of ReplyToAll in outlook.
Until management will realize how bad the decision is, can you please let me know how I can tweak the registry to get this option back?

Thanks,
Yoav