Registry Cleanup

ballelars wrote:
Bruce, this is good information. However, how does one get to know which
changes are to be made in the registry using regedit?


Generally, by carefully following the instructions provided in relevant
Knowledge Base Articles, etc. It's a learning process.


At present my Help and Support, and my System restore etc. do not function -
could this be due to registry problems?



Possibly. If I remember correctly, when WinXP was first released,
there was one registry "cleaner" whose use invariably caused this very
problem. Can't remember the name of it, though.... Don't even know if
it's still on the market.


When I click Help in the popup start menu I get a message that Windows
cannot find 'helpctr.exe' - I have located it to
C:\windows\pchealth\helpctr\binaries\helpctr.exe - so why can't Windows find
it there?


That makes it sounds like your Path Statement is screwed up, and
lacking the normal entries for WinXP's system folders. Therefoe, WinXP
doesn't know how to find the applications.

It should look something like this:

%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\Sy stem32\Wbem

To edit the Path, right-click My Computer Properties Advanced
Environmental Variables. In the System Variables windows, highlight
"Path" and click the Edit button.


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