Hello,
You did try to do a system restore from a previous time period, correct? This is just my opinion, but I try to avoid registry cleaners. Even if a few megabytes are removed, the performance difference is not that noticeable. Were you trying to clean out a virus infection?
I had some problems with the OS loading after my kids did "something"
. I uninstalled some games they installed but that did not change the fact that the OS loaded in about 3 (!) minutes which earlier was 1 minute. The strange thing was that while loading it stopped for a long time without any harddisk or other action. At first I thought my OS was screwed up and did a hardreset but then I just waited more and finally the OS came up. I tried it a few times and it always did the same.
Sidestory: at that time I was simultaneously searching for the answer: what my kids did with my notebook (damn kids
) and why was it going always to Blue Screen of Death EVEN when I boot from the WinXP CD. (Later I realised that they "cooked" the motherboard by putting and leaving the notebook on the bed for hours which seized any ventilation under the machine... and I did not have a plus ventilation board under it. I promised myself I would buy one. So it is a hardware error.) While testing, I tried a lot of things, and avast! BART DVD seemed to be a good solution.
Back to the main story which is about my PC: I tried the avast! BART DVD on my PC as well just to test a few things. I started the Registry Cleaner and I saw that it has an undo function so I thought it is safe to use it. I thought: if it does something wrong I can undo it.
But I could not. And that was and is very disappointing.
I know I should have been more cautious - as I am an IT engineer with 25 years experience - but I definitely trusted avast.
That was the mistake. I hope someone can provide a solution to restore the last registry I had and I still have - in an RCR file.
By the way, TweakXP has a registry cleaner which never gave headaches to me. I do not know if it is as clever as avast's.
After this long story my question again is: is there any chance or maybe a tool to restore my registry? Or an RCR file viewer?
Thanks for any response.
