Archive for the ‘windows registry’ Category
Saturday, July 24th, 2010
In the world of computer languages and jargon, you will come across a term known as the ‘system registry'. This is a central database that the system uses to efficiently run the operating system without hang-ups and hitches. This is a database, which stores information such as the data pertaining ...
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Monday, July 5th, 2010
We wanted to run a series of tests on the new RegCure 2007 Registry Cleaner to see how effective it was at removing registry errors and improving PC performance.
Our test system was an athlon based system running windows XP professional SP2, which conveniently enough had never had a registry scan ...
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Saturday, June 26th, 2010
Before we understand the need of registry cleaner, let us understand what registry is and why you need a registry cleaner to enhance PC performance. Just as you would store your documents in a file, the Windows stores all information about your computer in a Registry, such as all the ...
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Saturday, June 5th, 2010
COM is an acronym for Component Object Model. This is a software architecture developed by Microsoft Corporation and is used to define a certain structure used to build program routines, known as ‘objects' that can be called up for execution in a windows based environment. COM was first built into ...
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Thursday, May 27th, 2010
You would be surprised to know that fonts and
registry cleaner have an association. A font is a set of characters of the alphabet in a single typeface. This means that all the letters of the alphabet as well as the numbers will have the same basic design even though ...
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Sunday, May 16th, 2010
Yeah, you heard me! Big Brother does not like registry cleaners. But he is not alone. Everyone who works in software knows that Windows has been gradually turned into one big memory dump. Now, this is an ideal feature to help your computer keep track of the kinds of ...
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Sunday, May 9th, 2010
The latest Microsoft Windows operating systems have a time synchronisation utility installed by default called ‘Windows Time’. The Windows time service allows a Microsoft network to provide time synchronisation of machines in a domain. This article introduces how to configure the Microsoft Windows 2000 and 2003 operating systems to operate ...
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Saturday, May 1st, 2010
The pertinent question here will be to ask when is it necessary to use a registry cleaner and why? Well, once you know what a registry is and how it works you will need to know how to clean it up when it gets full of junk. Here is where ...
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Saturday, April 3rd, 2010
When a Windows computer has been used for some time it tends to slow down,freeze sometimes and occasionally even crash completely. It may take months or years depending on how much you use your machine but it will happen.
Why is this so? The reason is nearly always a corrupt registry ...
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Saturday, March 13th, 2010
Windows uses a system called 'file association' to open a file with the correct program that the file was created in. If a file has an extension .doc then windows knows that the file is a word document and uses file association to open the file in the Microsoft Word ...
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