how clean registry vista

hi, i have installed a few programmes but i dont know how to clean the registry in vista . does any one have any idea of this. Kindly guide as i cant install my school projects.
since regards Ranjan Samant

What school projects are you talking about? Which edition of Vista did you install on your computer? What kind of computer is it?
What is making you think you need to clean the registry? Are you getting any error messages that mention the registry?
If you can't install your school projects it is likely problems with your software being incompatible with Vista or problems with permissions to do the installations.
"RanjanSamant" wrote in message

hi, i have installed a few programmes but i dont know how to clean the registry in vista . does any one have any idea of this. Kindly guide as i cant install my school projects.
since regards Ranjan Samant

Rajan,
Cleaning the registry is a very dangerous task and has lots of factors that can affect where things are kept. If it is an MSI based setup the reminents can be completely different than those of your typicall setup.exe. I would not recommend you using anything other than the native uninstall for applications.
-- Josh
"RanjanSamant" wrote in message

hi, i have installed a few programmes but i dont know how to clean the registry in vista . does any one have any idea of this. Kindly guide as i cant install my school projects.
since regards Ranjan Samant

Hello
If you do not know how to clean the registry then you do not have any business to do it and especially with any registry cleaner tools. You can mess up your computer to the point of not working.
-- Daphne
Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.
"RanjanSamant" wrote in message

hi, i have installed a few programmes but i dont know how to clean the registry in vista . does any one have any idea of this. Kindly guide as i cant install my school projects.
since regards Ranjan Samant

hi, i'm using an accounting software. that has three version . one is free edition and another is standard version and the last one is delux version. at first i used to try free version.. that was working fine and i did some work on that for few days and later i bought the standard version as it had more features of inventry control and accounting mathods.
at the time of installation i had some error message like runtime(.netframe work not sure) so i installed on another computer and copied the whole directory in vista installed laptop and it worked.. but as it was free version the serial no. was different whic i wrote after i opened it from vista installed laptop . i couldnt uninstall it so i deleted the whole directory from C: drive and restared the pc and again copied the whole directory from another Pc and NOW IT DIDN'T PROMPTED THE SERIAL NO BOX. SO I COULDNT WRITE THE STANDARD EDITION SERIAL NO. it is still the free version with less features.. i think it is due to registry files which are stored in windwos ...
May be i'm wrong but this is what happened. I have tried the same on xp based pc but installs properly therefore there is no problem..
i dont know how can i do it...any help is highly appreciated... regards
"Josh" wrote:

Rajan,
Cleaning the registry is a very dangerous task and has lots of factors that can affect where things are kept. If it is an MSI based setup the reminents can be completely different than those of your typicall setup.exe. I would not recommend you using anything other than the native uninstall for applications.
-- Josh
"RanjanSamant" wrote in message hi, i have installed a few programmes but i dont know how to clean the registry in vista . does any one have any idea of this. Kindly guide as i cant install my school projects.
since regards Ranjan Samant

hi, i'm using an accounting software. that has three version . one is free edition and another is standard version and the last one is delux version. at first i used to try free version.. that was working fine and i did some work on that for few days and later i bought the standard version as it had more features of inventry control and accounting mathods.
at the time of installation i had some error message like runtime(.netframe work not sure) so i installed on another computer and copied the whole directory in vista installed laptop and it worked.. but as it was free version the serial no. was different whic i wrote after i opened it from vista installed laptop . i couldnt uninstall it so i deleted the whole directory from C: drive and restared the pc and again copied the whole directory from another Pc and NOW IT DIDN'T PROMPTED THE SERIAL NO BOX. SO I COULDNT WRITE THE STANDARD EDITION SERIAL NO. it is still the free version with less features.. i think it is due to registry files which are stored in windwos ...
May be i'm wrong but this is what happened. I have tried the same on xp based pc but installs properly therefore there is no problem..
i dont know how can i do it...any help is highly appreciated... regards
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:

What school projects are you talking about? Which edition of Vista did you install on your computer? What kind of computer is it?
What is making you think you need to clean the registry? Are you getting any error messages that mention the registry?
If you can't install your school projects it is likely problems with your software being incompatible with Vista or problems with permissions to do the installations.
"RanjanSamant" wrote in message hi, i have installed a few programmes but i dont know how to clean the registry in vista . does any one have any idea of this. Kindly guide as i cant install my school projects.
since regards Ranjan Samant

hi, i'm using an accounting software. that has three version . one is free edition and another is standard version and the last one is delux version. at first i used to try free version.. that was working fine and i did some work on that for few days and later i bought the standard version as it had more features of inventry control and accounting mathods.
at the time of installation i had some error message like runtime(.netframe work not sure) so i installed on another computer and copied the whole directory in vista installed laptop and it worked.. but as it was free version the serial no. was different whic i wrote after i opened it from vista installed laptop . i couldnt uninstall it so i deleted the whole directory from C: drive and restared the pc and again copied the whole directory from another Pc and NOW IT DIDN'T PROMPTED THE SERIAL NO BOX. SO I COULDNT WRITE THE STANDARD EDITION SERIAL NO. it is still the free version with less features.. i think it is due to registry files which are stored in windwos ...
May be i'm wrong but this is what happened. I have tried the same on xp based pc but installs properly therefore there is no problem..
i dont know how can i do it...any help is highly appreciated...
regards
"Daphne Foldes" wrote:

Hello
If you do not know how to clean the registry then you do not have any business to do it and especially with any registry cleaner tools. You can mess up your computer to the point of not working.
-- Daphne
Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.
"RanjanSamant" wrote in message hi, i have installed a few programmes but i dont know how to clean the registry in vista . does any one have any idea of this. Kindly guide as i cant install my school projects.
since regards Ranjan Samant

hi again, i forgot to tell i tried systems mechanic 6 (trial) registry mechanic 5.2(trial) and winxp manager(which doesnt support vista) but nothing worked..out..
:( ragards
"RanjanSamant" wrote:

hi, i have installed a few programmes but i dont know how to clean the registry in vista . does any one have any idea of this. Kindly guide as i cant install my school projects.
since regards Ranjan Samant

hi again, i forgot to tell i tried systems mechanic 6 (trial) registry mechanic 5.2(trial) and winxp manager(which doesnt support vista) but nothing worked..out..
:( regards
"RanjanSamant" wrote:

hi, i have installed a few programmes but i dont know how to clean the registry in vista . does any one have any idea of this. Kindly guide as i cant install my school projects.
since regards Ranjan Samant

Why do you say that? Do you know how to manually "clean" the registry? I for one don't, and I still do so in XP.
I personally would not do anything with the registry as the structure has changed and registry cleaners that worked in early builds and ones that work fine in XP can break Vista as it sees things that it thinks are bad or unnecessary when they are needed. ---------- Mark Dietz PROnetworks <http://www.pro-networks.org>
Daphne Foldes wrote:

Hello
If you do not know how to clean the registry then you do not have any business to do it and especially with any registry cleaner tools. You can mess up your computer to the point of not working.

If you had to ask, I don't hink you should touch the registry let alone clean it. Try cleaning the monitor instead.
"RanjanSamant" wrote in message

hi, i have installed a few programmes but i dont know how to clean the registry in vista . does any one have any idea of this. Kindly guide as i cant install my school projects.
since regards Ranjan Samant

I'll take a shot at the first part of your description of the problem but I am having trouble following what is going on in the second part.
The message probably was that .netframework 1.1 is required for this program to run. Vista includes .netframework 2.0 but not .netframework 1.1. Programs can be written to use any version but some programs (or their installers) may insist on one specific version. (The two versions of the ..netframework live with each other happily so having both side by side is no problem.)
It is common for registration and serial number info to be stored someplace different from a program's folders so just copying over a folder would not neccessarily have also copied over everything that the program needed.
I am confused by the middle part of the second paragraph of your post:
"but as it was free version the serial no. was different whic i wrote after i opened it from vista installed laptop . i couldnt uninstall it so i deleted the whole directory from C: drive"
Can you clean that up a bit and make it clearer (step by step)?

"RanjanSamant" wrote in message

hi, i'm using an accounting software. that has three version . one is free edition and another is standard version and the last one is delux version. at first i used to try free version.. that was working fine and i did some work on that for few days and later i bought the standard version as it had more features of inventry control and accounting mathods.
at the time of installation i had some error message like runtime(.netframe work not sure) so i installed on another computer and copied the whole directory in vista installed laptop and it worked.. but as it was free version the serial no. was different whic i wrote after i opened it from vista installed laptop . i couldnt uninstall it so i deleted the whole directory from C: drive and restared the pc and again copied the whole directory from another Pc and NOW IT DIDN'T PROMPTED THE SERIAL NO BOX. SO I COULDNT WRITE THE STANDARD EDITION SERIAL NO. it is still the free version with less features.. i think it is due to registry files which are stored in windwos ...
May be i'm wrong but this is what happened. I have tried the same on xp based pc but installs properly therefore there is no problem..
i dont know how can i do it...any help is highly appreciated... regards
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:
What school projects are you talking about? Which edition of Vista did you install on your computer? What kind of computer is it?
What is making you think you need to clean the registry? Are you getting any error messages that mention the registry?
If you can't install your school projects it is likely problems with your software being incompatible with Vista or problems with permissions to do the installations.
"RanjanSamant" wrote in message hi, i have installed a few programmes but i dont know how to clean the registry in vista . does any one have any idea of this. Kindly guide as i cant install my school projects.
since regards Ranjan Samant

It looks like the web-based newsreader is giving you false error messages. Why don't you try using the newsreader in Vista Mail?
"RanjanSamant" wrote in message

hi, i'm using an accounting software. that has three version . one is free edition and another is standard version and the last one is delux version. at first i used to try free version.. that was working fine and i did some work on that for few days and later i bought the standard version as it had more features of inventry control and accounting mathods.
at the time of installation i had some error message like runtime(.netframe work not sure) so i installed on another computer and copied the whole directory in vista installed laptop and it worked.. but as it was free version the serial no. was different whic i wrote after i opened it from vista installed laptop . i couldnt uninstall it so i deleted the whole directory from C: drive and restared the pc and again copied the whole directory from another Pc and NOW IT DIDN'T PROMPTED THE SERIAL NO BOX. SO I COULDNT WRITE THE STANDARD EDITION SERIAL NO. it is still the free version with less features.. i think it is due to registry files which are stored in windwos ...
May be i'm wrong but this is what happened. I have tried the same on xp based pc but installs properly therefore there is no problem..
i dont know how can i do it...any help is highly appreciated... regards
"Josh" wrote:
Rajan,
Cleaning the registry is a very dangerous task and has lots of factors that can affect where things are kept. If it is an MSI based setup the reminents can be completely different than those of your typicall setup.exe. I would not recommend you using anything other than the native uninstall for applications.
-- Josh
"RanjanSamant" wrote in message hi, i have installed a few programmes but i dont know how to clean the registry in vista . does any one have any idea of this. Kindly guide as i cant install my school projects.
since regards Ranjan Samant

Cleaning the registry is not recommended, manually, or with a registry cleaning program.
"Mario Rosario" wrote:

If you had to ask, I don't hink you should touch the registry let alone clean it. Try cleaning the monitor instead.
"RanjanSamant" wrote in message hi, i have installed a few programmes but i dont know how to clean the registry in vista . does any one have any idea of this. Kindly guide as i cant install my school projects.
since regards Ranjan Samant

By whom? Some people do in fact recommend it. I don't but in all fairness your statement is not true.
"Andrew" wrote in message

Cleaning the registry is not recommended, manually, or with a registry cleaning program.
"Mario Rosario" wrote:
If you had to ask, I don't hink you should touch the registry let alone clean it. Try cleaning the monitor instead.
"RanjanSamant" wrote in message hi, i have installed a few programmes but i dont know how to clean the registry in vista . does any one have any idea of this. Kindly guide as i cant install my school projects.
since regards Ranjan Samant

Nice clear explanation of coexisting .net frameworks by Colin--this situation often confuses people. The major problem with all the so-called registry cleaners is that hardly anyone knows what they are in fact really doing. Many of them will flash a gui that says you have one thousand and eleventy fifteen reg errors that need fixing or that it has fixed. The www.winguides.com site has Reg Mechanic and the developer who does that and creates most of the reg fixes and tweaks for that site is an Australian with a very deep understanding of the regisstry. From what I can tell though running it didn't solve your problem which I can't decode. I agree with the people on this thread that you are better using conventional uinstalls or if it worked in Vista and it doesn't yet System File Checker, ect. to troubleshoot your problem.
Ed Bott has written a good article on this (writes the MSFT Press Inside Out Book on XP and prob Vista) so I'll link you to it:
Ed Bott's Windows Expertise: April 19, 2005 - 10:19 amWhy I don’t use registry cleaners http://www.edbott.com/weblog/archives/000643.html
CH
"RanjanSamant" wrote in message

hi, i have installed a few programmes but i dont know how to clean the registry in vista . does any one have any idea of this. Kindly guide as i cant install my school projects.
since regards Ranjan Samant

As a note on the .netframework thing, 1.1 has an incompatibility issue with Vista that requires also installing service pack 1 for .netframework 1.1. Vista will report this during the installation of 1.1 but I thought it worth noting.
"Chad Harris" wrote in message

Nice clear explanation of coexisting .net frameworks by Colin--this situation often confuses people. The major problem with all the so-called registry cleaners is that hardly anyone knows what they are in fact really doing. Many of them will flash a gui that says you have one thousand and eleventy fifteen reg errors that need fixing or that it has fixed. The www.winguides.com site has Reg Mechanic and the developer who does that and creates most of the reg fixes and tweaks for that site is an Australian with a very deep understanding of the regisstry. From what I can tell though running it didn't solve your problem which I can't decode. I agree with the people on this thread that you are better using conventional uinstalls or if it worked in Vista and it doesn't yet System File Checker, ect. to troubleshoot your problem.
Ed Bott has written a good article on this (writes the MSFT Press Inside Out Book on XP and prob Vista) so I'll link you to it:
Ed Bott's Windows Expertise: April 19, 2005 - 10:19 amWhy I don't use registry cleaners http://www.edbott.com/weblog/archives/000643.html
CH
"RanjanSamant" wrote in message hi, i have installed a few programmes but i dont know how to clean the registry in vista . does any one have any idea of this. Kindly guide as i cant install my school projects.
since regards Ranjan Samant

I agree with Steph. Ranjan is trying to get a school project working. He is under time pressure. He is trying to install an accounting software and has no clue what the errors mean. That tels me he is a business major. Computer software is non-trivial. Those that have studied Computer Science or worked with it knows.
"Mark Dietz" wrote in message

Why do you say that? Do you know how to manually "clean" the registry? I for one don't, and I still do so in XP.
I personally would not do anything with the registry as the structure has changed and registry cleaners that worked in early builds and ones that work fine in XP can break Vista as it sees things that it thinks are bad or unnecessary when they are needed. ---------- Mark Dietz PROnetworks <http://www.pro-networks.org
Daphne Foldes wrote: Hello
If you do not know how to clean the registry then you do not have any business to do it and especially with any registry cleaner tools. You can mess up your computer to the point of not working.