Registry

Is this just an old wives' tale to make people think something is wrong with their computers if they have old entries just chilling in their registry? I'm not asking because I'm planning on doing anything to my computer's registry, I'm smart enough to know not to go messing with that. Just asked...

I ran a virus scan on my computer with Malwarebytes and it came back with 4 threats detected. Two of them were Rootkit.Fileless.MTGen. One was a registry value and the other was a registry key. The other two were Trojan.Fileless.MTGen. One was a registry value and the other was a file. I...

So I was trying to recover a rar. password, I was told to check out crark, in the instructions, it says to run "driver-timeout.reg" so I did, and it didn't do anything that I could notice. So once I gave up on getting the rar. password, I went to play some games, and now they freeze and I must...

"Win 7 explorer stopped working" error . Have gone thru normal registry combs .. antivirus chks malware etc. Actually only need to take a coupla files off this pc and xfer to new machine. After above work i can move files around on c drive, copy paste etc but no move to thumb drive. Any...

For longer than I can remember, I've been using CCleaner as part of my system maintenance routine when it's time to keep things cleared out and running smooth. However, one thing I notice when uninstalling an old program is that I ALWAYS have to go into the registry and clear out stray remains...

Hey there. I tried the solution to remove the safe search virus as described in this thread: http://www.tomsguide.com/answers/id-2617458/remove-safesearch-search-engine-chrome.html As such I deleted the registry.pol file as suggested by jonp11. It worked too, for about a day. Now I am unable to...

I ran malwarebytes and found a lot of issues, so I restarted my pc to remove them. When I did I got an error saying there was a problem starting logilda.dll in system 32.Now it says in the statuses of my devices that windows cannot verify the digital signature of the driver (Code 52). Also...

hello everyone, today i tried to delete a program (equityfeed) that is a .jnlp program. than i tried to delete all the files that were linked with it as registry keys or other type of file. the problem is that i found a file that i cannot delete or modify, can you help me? i need to delete this...

Hi all! I use CCleaner to remove junk files, uninstall apps, fix registry. I have defraggler for (duh) defragging the hard drive. Avast free is my antivirus and checks for out of date programs. I use on demand antispyware with Malwarebytes and Superantispyware. I'm using Win 7 (still...

How to backup a program file in Windows 7 WITH all the registry keys so that it will execute when reloaded back to my desktop from the external hard drive.

I found an entry in registry called Locky. Could it be Bitdefender that installed it? (HKCUSoftware\Locky). I have no problem with Ransom-mails.

Hi, Recently i've been getting very high CPU usage and memory usage on my Dell Inspiron 13 in the 80% range slowing down my PC horribly. This causes video streams to lag and stutter, and applications to run slowly. The applications that take up this load consist of core system, anti-virus...

I have a windows server 2012 r2 standard edition, running Hyper-V running windows server 2012 r2 too.. The problem is that any time i do a restart to the server, the Remote Registry service change the logon account from "Local Service" to "Local System" while i want it to stay running with...

This just popped up with 360 Total Security. A registry change was about to be made but was blocked by the program, and then these processes wanted to start up. Is anything fishy going on? The log provided by 360 Total Security is provided below. 2016-03-13 10:30:42 Process Creation...

Hello! I have just gotten my new computer to work (build it myself), and am experiencing a couple of problems, that i was hoping someone in here would have a solution to. One that bothers me a lot, is that sometimes when installing software, it will just keep loading until i force restart...

Hi there. Recently I've had a run in with a possible virus that causes an ad to appear whenever i open a page or new tab on chrome, despite the adblockers I use. I think it was called super new tab or something. I searched it up and did some actions to clear it, which involved uninstalling some...

Here's the report: although I could not copy and paste it: ---------- Registry errors: 291 errors found (high severity). I cannot copy and paste these, but are application paths, auto starts, file types, firewall, help files, history, shared files, installed software,uninstall. Junk files: 2264...

Whats the easiest and safest way to delete all the clutter and crap from my pc, and to check for registry errors. Im looking for the safest and best programs available please, I am really sketchy when it comes to a lot of programs causing more problems then they resolve. Thanks!

I recently had to reinstall my antivirus. When I run the installation process it tells me that Bitdefender 2011 even though I have never installed that version. I have tried cleaning my registry with CCleaner, I have tried using the bitdefender removal tools from 2016 and 2011 versions. When...

I cleaned registry and programs and all with CCleaner about 5 times total. Now I think that came back to stab me in the back because I believe that my Steam (more specifically VAC), my League, and my Google Chrome is not running as well. Is there any way to fix this or do I have to do a clean...