Under the Registry Scan group you can find the following options (Screenshot).
Limit scan by number of errors
This option allows to set a max number of errors to be found per registry scan.
In many cases Registry First Aid finds several hundreds or even thousands of errors in the registry. Scanning for all those errors and finding corrections may take a LOT of time. Also, as it is suggested to verify every correction suggestion, it is very hard to do so with hundreds of errors. With this option you can limit the maximum number of errors increasing the program scanning speed and making it easier to verify the errors found. To clean the whole system, you just will need to make several scans. And guess what? Scanning several times with a limit of 200 errors is FASTER than scanning only one time with 1000 errors found and verifying them all. Note that on the first scan of drives for corrections, their file contents are being cached. So subsequent scans are much faster.
Default value is 1000.
Show warning message
This option defines if a pop-up message on reaching the scan limit will be displayed. That message allows to continue the scan, if you'd like and/or turn off the scan limit for all future registry scans.
Freeze found entries list while scanning
Setting this option ON will freeze the list. The found registry entries will not be displayed while the registry scan is in progress. Turning this option ON may increase scanning speed.
Show current registry key in status bar
After setting this option ON the program will show currently scanned registry key name in the status bar at the bottom of the program window. Turning this option OFF increases scanning speed.
Show progress bar
Setting this option ON will show progress bar displaying scanning process. Turning this option OFF may increase scanning speed.
Scan several registry keys simultaneously
Several registry keys can be scanned simultaneously. Setting this option ON require more resources and some computers may be unstable. If there are problems with running registry scan in this mode you can turn this option OFF.
See also:
Files Scan group