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<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="Template" content="C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT OFFICE\OFFICE\html.dot"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage Express 2.0"> <title>RegRepair Help File</title> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#FFFFFF" link="#FF0000" vlink="#FF0000"> RegRepair 2000 Version 3.0 Note: RegRepair 2000 should be used once a month or after installing new software or hardware and reinstalling Windows by Easy Desk Software http://members.aol.com/easydesk (516) 587- 9015 <a name="CONTENTS">CONTENTS</a> <a href="#Started">Getting Started</a> <a href="#INSTALLATION">Installation</a> <a href="#IOS_ERRORS">What is an IOS ERROR </a><a href="#Started"> </a><a href="Reghlp2.htm#Fix">Fixing IOS Errors</a> <a href="#ORDERING">Ordering</a> <a href="#OTHER">Other Software</a> <a href="#Compact">Compacting the Registry</a> <a href="#Tech">Tech Support</a> <a href="#Trouble">Trouble Shooting RegRepair</a> There are two parts to the help file ( two files) <hr> <a name="Started">Getting Started</a> ThiThis program is not the same as MS RegClean. Regclean only removes entries in the Registry. RegRepair 2000 repairs, restores and changes entries in the Registry. It diagnoses and repairs IOS Errors. RegRepair has a second part to it, RegMedic which is a separate program. You should read the section about<a href="Reghlp2.htm#Cabs"> Cabinet Files</a> to use this program correctly. ..You can use these files to understand what the program is doing and what to do next. ........The program will run for 10 days without registering it. The registered version will only work on the machine that it is registered to. This program is only for Windows95 and 98, versions A, B, C or no version letter and upgrades from Windows 3.1. It is also designed for the English version but can be used on any version so long as the system sub directories are named Vmm32 and Iosubsys. Please read the Installation section on this page before using this program. This program will not work on shared workstations. This program requires the Registry and Windows directory to be on the same computer as RegRepair 2000. ......In most cases reinstalling Windows does not repair IOS Errors. Windows simply adds information in the Registry so you are still left with a corrupted Registry after reinstalling Windows. Now the only thing to do is format or use RegRepair 2000. Please note that RegRepair 2000 works best if it is installed and setup before you get a corrupted Registry. It works even if you install it after you have corrupted the Registry. Minimum System Requirements Computer PC Compatible 586 Disk Space used less than 4 MB Minimum RAM Required 4 MB Display Options All Windows supported display modes Operating Systems Windows 95 / 98 Pointing device <a href="#CONTENTS">Back to Table of Contents</a> <hr> <a name="IOS_ERRORS">IOS ERRORS </a>........Once you have clicked on Continue, the program opens to a screen that will allow you to find and repair IOS errors. If you do not know what an IOS error is..... When Windows is booting up you see the screen OS Loading and Starting Windows 95. After this comes messages that tell you that a file cannot be found or if the file is critical you will get a message IOS ERROR and the boot up will take you to the c:\ prompt instead of Windows. You probably have an IOS errors right now and Windows just steps over them, not even bothering to tell you about them until it is too late. If you have enough small errors Windows will not boot. Font files are the biggest offender. <a href="hlp2.htm">How to fix IOS errors</a> <a href="#CONTENTS">Back to Table of Contents</a> <hr> <a name="INSTALLATION">INSTALLATION</a> If you are not using the English version: During Fix IOS Error you may find that RegRepair 2000 cannot extract a file from the Cabinet files. You will need to use the Search And Extract feature. You use the Setup feature before attempting to restore the Registry. To install, simply click on setup.exe. Once the Setup program is done open this program (RegRepair.exe) and click on Continue then click on Setup. You are now ready to use this program. You will need to create a current Bootlog. To do this you will need to click on the button Other Utilities and select bootup options and select show Boot menu, then Reboot. You may also press the F8 key when you are reboot your computer to display the Boot menu.. <a href="#CONTENTS">Back to Table of Contents</a> <hr> <a name="Compact">Compacting The Registry</a> Read this entire section before Cleaning and Compacting the Registry. Be sure to make a current backup of the Registry before compacting. You should also make a startup disk if you do not already have a current one. It is recommended that this section be printed out! This feature should not be used if the Registry is corrupted. You MUST use Scandisk before Compacting. If you do not you may have an error on your hard and your system will hang during the building of the new Registry. If this happens reboot and try a second time. If the second time hangs then you can do one of two things. Reboot and press the F8 key the display the boot up menu (or select this option using RegRepair 2000's Boot Option menu) and select Step by Step from the bootup menu and do not load the Autoexec.bat file. Or use a system start up disk to reboot your computer to the A prompt than type: C: (press enter) del autoexec.bat (press enter) cd\windows (press enter) (.da0 files may be replace using the backup files that you made. extension .001) attrib -h -r -s System.da0 (press enter) attrib -h -r -s System.dat (press enter) attrib -h -r -s User.da0 (press enter) attrib -h -r -s User.dat (press enter) copy system.da0 system.dat (press enter) copy user.da0 user.dat (press enter) Press Ctl-Alt-Del to reboot If your Registry is corrupted (you get an error in the bootlog or a notice on bootup to Windows) the Compacting process will hang. The entire process on cleaning and rebuilding the Registry can take as long as one hour. Please note that during this process you will view a percentage of completion, at times this percentage will move rapidly and at other times it may stay at a percentage (example 57%) for about five minutes. You will be able to tell if your system hangs by view the hard drive active light on your computer or if a percentage stays longer than 10 minutes. Should a problem occur there is a backup of the registry (if you made one with RegRepair 2000) named System.001 and User.001 in the Windows Folder, you will not need to remove the attributes (attrib command) and there is also a Backup of the Autoexec.bat file in the root directory named C:\Autoexec.wos. You will find a second backup copy for the registry in the sub folder of RegRepair 2000 , Sysbackup and the files are named System.dat and User.dat. You will not need to remove attributes from these file either. If each time you boot after compact and cleaning the process starts over again then Windows failed to replace the Autoexec.bat with the backup. RegRepair is also programmed to check after rebooting that all files have been cleaned up, but the entry to start RegRepair may have been removed during the process of Compacting. You will also find more information at Trouble Shooting below <a href="#CONTENTS">Back to Table of Contents</a> <hr> <a name="Trouble">Trouble Shooting RegRepair</a> <a href="#Menu">Boot Menu still shows</a> <a href="#Can">Can not find cabinet files:</a> <a href="#Compacting">Compacting the Registry Fails:</a> <a href="#every">Compacting the Registry on every reboot:</a> <a href="#Fonts">Dupilcate Fonts Problems:</a> <a href="#Invalid">Error Message Invalid Registration number entered:</a> <a href="#Fixed:">Failed Files Not Fixed: </a> <a href="#deleted">Files have been deleted that you need:</a> <a href="#Shut">RegRepair can not Shut down Windows: </a> <a href="#Verifing">Verifing Cabinet files hangs or you replace Extract.exe or Reinstall Windows: </a> Boot <a name="Menu">Menu</a> still shows: If during the bootup of Windows you still get the boot Menu showing use the button "Other Utilities" and the use the button "Restore Bootup Setting" on the Window that opens. Uncheck the box "Show Boot Menu". <a name="Can">Can not find cabinet files:</a> If during the setup (using the setup button) RegRepair can not find you cabinet files then enter the words "can not find" in the window that displays the cabinet file path/name. RegRepair will build a new library without verifing the cabinet files. You must be sure that the cabinet files exist in the location that you entered earlier. <a name="Compacting">Compacting the Registry Fails:</a> This means that the Registry is corrupted and can not be rewritten. The best way to fix this is: try defrag and scandisk, reboot several times until Windows can shut down quickly and then reboot. Then try opening all your software and using each one. This process can help rewrite damaged keys. Then try compacting the Registry again. If the above procedure does not work than : Copy all fonts to a new folder, delete the System.dat and da0 files, the User.dat and da0 files. Then reinstall Windows. You will need to reinstall most software but you will not lose any of you files , you can then reinstall all your fonts. This is a last resort. If you are a Trial user of RegRepair you will need to contact us for a new Trial License to use RegRepair after deleting the Registry. <a name="every">Compacting the Registry on every reboot:</a> This means that Windows messed up (hard to believe). RegRepair made an entry in the Autoexec.bat file and gave Windows the instructions to replace this file on reboot with Autoexec.wos and Windows did not. You can remove all the lines from the Autoexec.bat file starting with @echo off, Compacting Registry to the bottom of the Autoexec.bat. or you may replace the file with the file Autoexec.wos. Windows was instructed to replace the Autoexec.bat and also instructed to start RegRepair 2000 on reboot to check that this was done; but the entries in the Registry may have been removed. See Compact and Cleaning the Registry. Dupilcate <a name="Fonts">Fonts</a> Problems: You may find that after using this feature you get the same messages, Reboot and try again. If after two times of rebooting and using this utility the same files are coped to the the SavedFonts folder then this means that these files are system fonts and can not be removed, and a program of yours or a newer Version of Windows has set these fonts as system font. RegRepair 2000 is programmed to check for system fonts in the Registry but if the file is marked System with Attributes then RegRepair will not remove the font but will copy to the SavedFonts folder and mark it as a dupilcate if it is duoplicated. Error Message <a name="Invalid">Invalid</a> Registration number entered: You may have entered a registration number that is not valid or your Windows Product ID # is not valid, You will need to check your Windows CD key and enter the correct Windows CD key in the Registry. Failed Files Not <a name="Fixed:">Fixed:</a> You must Read the Report carefully. You did not do what the Report said to do, you did not read the help file about the codes. There are also files that are not listed here that can fail, because a program that you deleted may have written to the boot sector of the hard drive to load this files. You will then need to reinstall and uninstall properly that program. See the Exception List. Files have been <a name="deleted">deleted</a> that you need: You will find all the files that RegRepiar deleted during repairs in a sub folder named Backup under the RegRepair 2000 folder, if you have not had RegRepair empty this folder. RegRepair can not <a name="Shut">shut</a> down Windows: You may have TRS programs running, you will need to use the Control-Alt-Delete to shut down programs before trying to reboot. If the Please Wait screen stays up to long, this means that Windows is writing back to the hard drive. To cure this, run a complete scandisk and defrag. If defrag tells you that you do not did need to do it now then think about this - 1% of a 2 gig hard drive is 20,000,000 clusters that windows must find before shutting down. <a name="Verifing">Verifing</a> Cabinet files hangs or you replace Extract.exe or Reinstall Windows: You will need to right click the file Extract.exe (located in the windows command file) and select Properties than the program tab and Place a check mark in the "Close On Exit" box. If you have a 486 processor then the extracting of files will take a long - long time, to extract a small file (4kb) will that about 2 minutes. <a href="#CONTENTS">Back to Table of Contents</a> <hr> <a name="ORDERING">ORDERING</a> For updates and other software visit us at: http://members.aol.com/easydesk If you email or mail your order in you will need to include your Product Id #, it can be found in the upper right corner of the Splash Screen (the first screen you see when you open RegRepair 2000) This is a shareware release. Please register it within 10 days. The cost of registering is $29.95 and diskettes are $5.00 additional. out of country Checks must include an additional $10.00 to cover collection fees. This software can be freely distributed without written permission from the Wolf Agency, but must include all files. All software is at our web site http://members.aol.com/easydesk To order this or any other software from EASY DESK Software RegRepair 2000 (version 3.0) Ship to: Your name_______________________________ Email address _____________________________ ADDRESS_________________________________ TOWN____________________________________ STATE______________ ZIP________________ PHONE______________ SOFTWARE TITLE_________________________ AMOUNT ENCLOSED___________________ Send TO: WOLF AGENCY 56 Livingston AVE. Babylon, NY 11702 USA (516) 587-9015 You may visit our web to learn how to send us a check via e-mail at our Order page Or: EMAIL to: EASYDESK@AOL.COM Visit our web for other free demos: http://members.aol.com/easydesk Disclaimer- Users of Easy Desk software must accept this disclaimer of warranty. Easy Desk software is supplied as is. The author disclaims all warranties expressed or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose. The author assumes no liability for damages, direct or consequential, which may result from the use of any Easy Desk software. RegRepair 2000 is a "shareware program" and is provided at no charge to the user for evaluation. Feel free to share it with your friends, but you may not give it away altered or as part of another system without written permission from the Wolf Agency. The essence of "user-supported" software is to provide personal computer users with quality software without high prices, yet to provide incentive for programmers to continue to develop new products. If you find this program useful and find that you are using Easy Desk software and continue to use Easy Desk software, you must register the software. You must also make payment of $29.95 to the Wolf Agency. The registration fee will license one copy for use on any one computer at any one time. Commercial users of any Easy Desk software must register and make payment for their copies of RegRepair 2000 within the trial period. License arrangements may be made by contacting the Wolf Agency. Anyone distributing RegRepair 2000 for any kind of remuneration must first contact the Wolf Agency at the address below for authorization. All registered users will receive the latest registered version on diskettes via US Mail ($5.00 additional). You may also request e-mail versions, which will be shipped date of funds. Support will be offered for an unlimited time with registration so long as the Wolf Agency is selling the software. <a href="#CONTENTS">Back to Table of Contents</a> <hr> <a name="OTHER">OTHER SOFTWARE</a> Other software Available: RegMedic :You will never need to reinstall Windows again because of a registry problem. RegMedic can rebuilt your registry from scratch in minutes, without deleting it or removing any of your other software. RegMedic is like reinstalling windows. $39.95 US funds Fast View: A simple to use program that views most types of picture files (Bmps, gif, wmf, jpg, and more), icon files, and all text files automatically. Has a delete command to help clean up your computer, and a timer for setting the time to view files from 1 second to? $20.00 US funds WinSafe98: A fail-safe utility for restarting Windows95/98 in case of corruption of vital files or crash. Nothing stops WinSafe 98 except a power failure. $29.95 US funds Instant Check: An easy to use check writing utility for receiving or sending a check over the phone, via fax or e-mail. Ideal for small business or the individual who wants to print their own checks. Includes a encryption program for credit card encryption. $49.95 Easy Desk Desktop: A graphic desktop launcher with great graphics and sound. A scene of a Brooklyn street decorates your desktop with matching sounds. $15.95 US funds Font Toolbox: A utility that allows you to view all fonts and compare as well as make fonts to custom sizes and colors, orientations to 360 degrees and makes transparent fonts as well. You can place them on any bitmap at any angle and even make 3D fonts. Ideal for anyone who works with graphics,fonts, or just needs to view their fonts for a word processor. $24.95 US funds Plus Splash Screens: This is a complete set of the matching splash screens that Microsoft forgot to make with their desktop themes. It include all 12 themes, each theme contains 2 animated Startup screens [1 with text and 1 without], 1 Please Wait, and 1 Shut Down $5.00 US funds Freeware Available: Rename the Recycle Bin: Renames and changes the icons for the Recycle Bin and My Computer without having to edit the registry. FREE ToilΦt.zip : 4 Icons, 2 sound waves and instructions to change the Recycle Bin to a ToilΦt or a garbagΦ pail. FREE Space.Zip: A complete desktop theme including the 4 splash screens, 2 sound waves, 2 animated cursors,and a desktop. FREE Change.zip: Changes all splash screens for desktop themes at a click of a button. We also have all the splash screens that are not included in the MS PLUS themes Exit Windows: The fastest way to reboot to windows. It will not even log you off of the network. <a href="#CONTENTS">Back to Table of Contents</a> <hr> <a name="Tech">Tech</a> Support If you experience any problems with RegRepair 2000 you will find the answer in the help files. Be sure to see the Troubling RegRepair section, the Exception List section. We have covered every problem that users have called us with in the help files so your answer should be at your finger tips. We strongly recommend that you print the two help files out before using RegRepair 2000. <a href="#CONTENTS">Back to Table of Contents</a> [<end>] </body> </html> [<End>] <Tag=39313>