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<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <title>Product Information</title> <style>  </style> </head> <body bgproperties="fixed" background="watermark.png"> <h1 align="center">Registry Clean Expert Online Help</h1> Basic Information About This Product <ul> <li><a href="#Q: What is Windows Registry">What is Windows Registry?</a></li> <li> <a href="#Q: Why do you need a Registry Cleaner">Why do you need a Registry Cleaner?</a></li> <li><a href="#Q: What can CleanMyPC Registry Cleaner do for you"> What can Registry Clean Expert do for you?</a></li> <li><a href="#Q:SysRequirements">System Requirements</a></li> <li><a href="#Q: Is32Or64">Is it for 32 bit version Windows or 64 bit version Windows, or both?</a></li> <li><a href="#choose compare">Why should I choose Registry Clean Expert over other products?</a></li> </ul> Usage of Registry Cleaner <ul> <li>Main Features of Registry Clean Expert<ul> <li><a href="#Registry Scan & Clean">Registry Scan & Clean</a></li> <li><a href="#Registry Backup/Restore"> Registry Backup/Restore</a></li> <li><a href="#Registry Defrag/Compact"> Registry Defrag/Compact</a></li> <li><a href="#Startup Organizer">Startup Organizer</a></li> <li> <a href="#Internet Explorer BHO Organizer">Internet Explorer BHO Organizer</a></li> <li><a href="#PrivacyEraser">Privacy Eraser</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>Settings & Tools<ul> <li><a href="#Application Settings">Application Settings</a></li> <li><a href="#Exception List">Exception List</a></li> <li><a href="#Tools">Advanced Tools</a></li> <li><a href="#How to Get Online Help">How to Get Online Help</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>Product Information<ul> <li><a href="#AboutProduct">About the Product</a></li> <li><a href="LICENSE">License Agreement</a></li> <li><a href="PURCHASE">How to Purchase</a></li> <li><a href="#AboutProduct">How to Get Online Help</a></li> <li class="style1"> <a href="#Online_Upgrade">Online Upgrade - Check for latest version</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> Purchase Questions <ul> <li> <a href="#Q: What are the benefits to register">What are the benefits to register?</a></li> <li> <a href="#Q: How much does it costs to register">How much does it costs to register?</a></li> <li><a href="#Q: How to register the product">How to purchase the product?</a></li> </ul> Your Question Cannot Be Found Here? If your questions cannot be addressed in the online document, please feel free to contact us at <a href="mailto:support@registry-clean.net">support@registry-clean.net</a> and we will be glad to assist you. <hr> <a name="Q: What is Windows Registry">Q: What is Windows Registry?</a> A: The Windows registry is a central hierarchical database in Windows used to store information necessary to configure the system for one or more users, applications, and hardware devices. The registry contains information that is constantly referenced during operation, such as profiles for each user, the applications installed on the computer; and the types of documents each can create, property sheet settings for folders and application icons, what hardware exists on the system; and which ports are being used. Windows registry is a vital part of Windows, if it is damaged, your whole system may be corrupted and cannot be used.  <a name="Q: Why do you need a Registry Cleaner">Q: Why do you need a Registry Cleaner?</a> A: The Windows registry is a database repository for information about a computer's configuration. The registry keep growing when you use Windows. As it does so, it attracts obsolete and unnecessary information, and gradually becomes cluttered and fragmented. With the growing of the registry, it can degrade the performance of the whole system and cause many weird software problems. <a name="Q: What can CleanMyPC Registry Cleaner do for you">Q: What can Registry </a>C<a name="Q: What can CleanMyPC Registry Cleaner do for you">lean Expert do for you?</a> A: Registry Clean Expert scans the Windows registry and finds incorrect or obsolete information in the registry. By fixing these obsolete information in Windows registry, your system will run faster and error free. The backup/restore function of the tool let you backup your whole Windows Registry so you can use it to restore the registry to the current status in case you encounter some system failure. Besides above, the startup and BHO organizer feature let you manage your startup and IE BHO items with ease, and you can control the programs started with Windows and IE more handy with this feature! In short, Registry Clean Expert help you get rid of the bloat in Windows registry and achieve a cleaner, faster system. <a name="Q:SysRequirements">Q: The system requirements for Registry Clean Expert</a> A: Our product works for all the Windows version below: <ul> <li>Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows Vista</li> <li>Windows ME, Windows 98</li> <li>Windows XP x64, Windows 2003 x64, Windows Vista x64</li> </ul> <a name="Q: Is32Or64">Q: Is it for 32 bit version Windows or 64 bit version Windows, or both?</a> A: Our product supports both 32 bit and 64 bit version Windows. While most of other registry cleaner only work for 32 bit version Windows, Registry Clean Expert is fully compatible with 64 bit version Windows and designed for x64 platform. Even if you are currently using 32 bit version Windows (If your Windows version doesn't mention anything, then it is the 32 bit version, 64 bit version Windows will display "x64 edition" in the version information), choosing a registry cleaner which works both on 32bit and 64bit Windows will add a great value for the product. (Maybe you will upgrade to the x64 version of Windows someday) <a name="choose compare">Q: Why should I choose Registry Clean Expert over other products?</a> A: Yes, there are many similar products available to clean the Windows Registry. We believe you will make the right choice after checking the <a href="compare.htm">products comparison chart</a>. <hr> <a name="Registry Scan & Clean"> Registry Scan & Clean</a> The Windows registry is a database repository for information about a computer's configuration. The registry keep growing when you use Windows. As it does so, it attracts obsolete and unnecessary information, and gradually becomes cluttered and fragmented. With the growing of the registry, it can degrade the performance of the whole system and cause many weird software problems. Use this product regularly to make the registry error free and boost your system performance! <img border=0 src="regexpert_scan.jpg" width="240" height="183"> Scanning: To start the registry scanning, click the "Check For Problems" button. After it scans your registry click the "View Details" link to see detailed information for each registry problem found. If you don't want to fix a specific problem, just clear the checkbox for it. (By default, the program fixes all problems it finds) <img border="0" src="SNAPRESULT.JPG" width="240" height="183"> Reviewing the found problems: There are two ways to view the scanning result. If you want to view the result by category, you can click the "View Details" link on the right of each category. If you want to view all the found problems in a central place, you can click the "View All Problems" button on the bottom of the scanning result window. <ul> <li>Sort: You can sort the result by different ways by selecting the sort option in the window. You can sort by Key Location, Registry Value, ValueName or Problem Description.</li> <li>Filter: You can filter the display of scanning result with the filter field. For example, if you only want to display the registry problem which contains text "Office10", then please input Office10 into the filter field and click the Go! button. This way, the window will only list the registry problems which contains the text Office10. The filter feature is very useful if you want to find all the problem registry items specific to some program.</li> </ul> <img border="0" src="SNAPVIEW.JPG" width="240" height="180"> In the problem details window, if you don't want to fix a specific problem, just clear the checkbox before it and then that item won't be fixed. (By default, the program fix all problems it finds) Note: If you are on 64 bit Windows(x64), the product adds "32" to the left of the item if it is found in 32 bit view of registry, and it adds "64" to the left of the item if it is found in 64 bit view of registry. Fixing: Click "Fix selected problems" to fix the problems found in the scanning process. (If you have cleared an item, then that item won't been fixed) (Note: An automatic backup will be created for the changes it makes. In case you need restore the fixed items, you can restore from the Restore Center in the "Registry Backup/Restore" panel) <a name="Registry Backup/Restore">Registry Backup/Restore</a> Most of the Windows internal configuration information is stored in the Registry. It is critical to have up-to-date, reliable backups of this information. You can backup/restore your Windows Registry here. <img border=0 src="regexpert_backup.jpg" width="240" height="183"> - Full Registry Backup: To do backup, click the Registry Backup button and you will be prompted to choose a file to store the backup. After that, the tool will backup your whole Windows Registry and store them in a single cab file you selected. - Full Registry Restore: To restore the Windows Registry from an earlier backup by this program, click the Registry Restore button inside the program and select the cab file. You will be prompted to restart your Windows after the restore is about to be completed. Please restart the system upon request to complete the restore. - Restore Center: Let you roll back the changes made by registry cleaner. An automatic backup is created each time registry cleaner makes changes to your registry. If you want to undo the changes, select the restore point in restore center and your registry state will go back. <a name="Registry Defrag/Compact">Registry Defrag/Compact</a> During the normal operation of a Windows system, registry data is constantly being written to and removed from the registry. Over time this data becomes scattered within the registry file and when information is deleted from the registry holes are left which fragment the data within the registry. Registry compacting optimizes your registry by removing gaps and wasted space, thus improves the whole system performance. <img border=0 src="REGDEFRAG.JPG" width="240" height="183"> To Defrag Registry/Compact Registry: 1. Click the "Defrag Registry" icon in the left navigation pane. 2. For Windows 98/ME: If you are using Windows 98 or Windows ME, click the "Compact/Defrag Registry" button and our product will first analyze the Registry for you. The whole process may take several minutes to complete. After it is completed, our product will prompt you to restart the computer to finish the compacting. For Windows XP/2000/2003/NT4, please click the "Analyzing Registry" button and our product will first analyze your registry. After the analyzing is completed, it will show you the report and tell you the size of the current registry files and the estimated size after compacting/defragging. Please click the "Compact/Defrag Registry" button after reviewing the report and our product will defrag/compact the Registry for you. The whole process may take several minutes to complete. After it is completed, our product will prompt you to restart the computer to finish the compacting. Note: Before defragging, I have 1% fragment in the registry. However, the 1% fragment still exists right after using Free Registry Defrag. Why does this happen? The first time you use Free Registry Defrag, normally the defrag rate of your registry is more than 10%. After using our product and restart, you will find normally the fragment rate is less than 1% after compacting. However, if your registry fragment rate is less than 2%, no matter how many times you compact your registry, the remaining fragments may won't go away and you will see the same analyzing result again and again (That means your registry fragment rate remains 1% or 2% even after compacting). This is not a problem of the product or the system and this is because Windows automatically adds some extra space to system hive of the registry every time of restarting. Don't worry for that. If the analyzing result shows your registry fragment rate is less than 2%, we suggest that your registry doesn't need to be compacted at this time. <a name="Startup Organizer">Startup Organizer</a> There are many programs which will be automatically started when you start Windows. After your system has been used for years and you have many application installed, you will feel your Windows starts slower and slower. Part of the reason is that there are too many programs which will be started up automatically. Among them, some programs are no use at all and you will never need it. Further more, some Spyware/Adware and Trojan also put themselves in the startup list. It's a good habit to keep the startup items minimal and only start program which is really necessary. Startup organizer view displays all programs which will be started when Windows starts up. By selecting the item in the list, you can view the detailed information about the item in the bottom pane. If you don't need a specific one during startup, just clear the checkbox before the item to disable it. <img border=0 src="regexpert_startup.jpg" width="240" height="183"> Note: If you are on 64 bit Windows(x64), the product will display the startup items for both the 64 and 32 bit of registry views. The items in 32 bit registry views will be displayed by adding a tag "32*" before the item. <a name="Internet Explorer BHO Organizer"> Internet Explorer BHO Organizer</a> A BHO is an add-in program for Internet Explorer. Some BHOs are legitimate and add some cool functions to IE, but there are also some BHOs which are adware or spyware (They do things like monitor the websites you visit and report this data back to their creators) The following list displays all Browser Helper Object (BHO) which will be loaded when you use Internet Explorer (IE). If you don't want a specific one, just clear the checkbox before the item to disable it. <img border=0 src="regexpert_bho.jpg" width="240" height="183"> Tip: The safety column in BHO organizer will mark whether the specific BHO is safe based on our internal list. If a BHO is a known Spyware, Adware or Trojan in our database, we will mark it as dangerous in the safety column and it is strongly suggest you to uncheck that item in BHO organizer to disable it. There are 3 state for the safety column: Safe, Dangerous, Unknown. Safe means it is safe to use it and it is not Spyware/Adware or Trojan based on our database. Dangerous means that BHO is known Spyware/Adware or Trojan. Unknown means that BHO is not in our database yet. <a name="PrivacyEraser">Privacy Eraser</a> Your computer is tracking all your activities. Anyone who can touch your computer can know the website you have visited, the web pages, images and videos you have ever seen. Just emptying the Recycle Bin and deleting the Internet cache in web browser will not protect you at all. Even your hard disk is formatted, others can know your past activities using some tools even several years later. Want to erase those tracks completely from your computer? The Privacy Eraser feature of our product will let you do it. <img border=0 src="PRIVACYERASER.JPG" width="240" height="183"> Our product will remove the following tracks of your activities completely. <ul> <li>Remove browser visit history </li> <li>Remove browser cookies </li> <li>Remove browser cache files </li> <li>Remove browser typed URLs </li> <li>Remove browser form AutoComplete list </li> <li>Remove browser saved user name and password </li> <li>Remove the hidden index.dat in Windows </li> <li>Remove the Windows start menu -- run drop list </li> <li>Remove the files in Windows temp folder </li> <li>Remove the Windows recent documents list </li> <li>Remove the files in Window recycle bin </li> <li>Remove my network places (network neighborhood) cache </li> <li>Remove Windows explorer find files list </li> <li>Remove Windows explorer find computer list </li> <li>Remove Windows Media Player Recent File List </li> <li>Remove Microsoft Office Recent File List </li> <li>Remove Windows WordPad / Paint Recent Files </li> <li>Remove IrfanView / ACDSee Recent File List </li> <li>Remove WinZip / WinRAR Recent File List </li> <li>Remove DivX Player / RealPlayer / QuickTime and WinAMP Recent File List </li> <li>Remove Acrobat Reader Recent File List </li> </ul> <a name="Application Settings"> Application Settings</a> <ul> <li>Visual Effect: Options to control some visual aspects of the program.</li> <li>File Verification: Options to control how the program verify a file's existence.</li> <li> Internet Explorer Guard: Some malicious websites or applications change your default browser homepage, or set your browser to automatically open their website when Windows starts. You can use this feature to avoid this from happening.</li> <li>Auto Reminder: Options to control whether the program will remind you to clean the registry. By default, the program will remind you to clean the registry every 3 days if you haven't done that. You can disable the reminder, or adjust the period for the reminder.</li> <li> Messenger Service Spam Stopper: Options to stop messenger service spam. You may receive an Internet advertisement in a Messenger service window. (It looks like below) <img border="0" src="MSNGSPAM.GIF" width="281" height="179"> The advertisement contains text that is similar to the following text: Messenger Service Message from source to your_computer_name.ISP_name on date time Message Text These messages are also known as "messenger spam." Just check this option and our product will stop those spam on your computer.</li> </ul> <a name="Exception List">Exception List</a> The Exception List lists the registry items which are ignored during registry scanning. You can add a registry item to the exception list from the View Details window (when you finish the registry scanning and view the result). You can also add an item to the exception list from scratch here. Our Registry Cleaner maintains an internal exception lists and those items cannot be changed or removed. <img border="0" src="SNAPEXLT.JPG" width="240" height="183"> You can add, edit, or delete a user defined exception item in this pane. You can also add a registry item into exception list from the "View Details" list dialog. In the scan result, right click an item and select "add to exception list" will add that item into exception list. By doing that, that item will be ignored during future registry scanning. <a name="Tools">Advanced Tools</a> The following pane contains some built-in tools in your Windows. You probably didn't notice them before, but these tools are very useful. Click the tool button you want and it will be launched automatically!. <img border="0" src="SNAPTOOL.JPG" width="240" height="183"> <ul> <li>System Information: System Information collects and displays system configuration information for local and remote computers. This includes information about hardware configurations, computer components, and software, including signed drivers and unsigned drivers. You can use System Information to quickly find the information that you need to resolve a system problem.</li> <li>Disk Cleanup: Disk Cleanup helps free up space on your hard drive Disk. Cleanup searches your drive, and then shows you temporary files, Internet cache files, and unnecessary program files that you can safely delete. You can direct Disk Cleanup to delete some or all of those files.</li> <li>Disk Defragmenter: Disk Defragmenter consolidates fragmented files and folders on your computer's hard disk, so that each occupies a single, contiguous space on the volume As a result, your system can gain access to your files and folders and save new ones more efficiently. By consolidating your files and folders, Disk Defragmenter also consolidates the volume's free space, making it less likely that new files will be fragmented.</li> <li> Computer Management: Computer Management helps you manage local or remote computers using a single, consolidated desktop tool. It combines several Windows administration utilities into a single console tree, providing easy access to a specific computer's administrative properties and tools.</li> <li>Device Manager: You can use Device Manager to update the drivers (or software) for hardware devices, modify hardware settings, and troubleshoot problems.</li> <li> Windows Backup: Backup helps to protect data from accidental loss if your server's hardware or storage media fails. If the original data on your hard disk is accidentally erased or overwritten, or becomes inaccessible because of a hard disk malfunction, you can easily restore the data from the archived copy.</li> <li>System Restore: System Restore is a component of Windows that you can use to restore your computer to a previous state, if a problem occurs, without losing your personal data files (such as Microsoft Word documents, browsing history, drawings, favorites, or e-mail). System Restore monitors changes to the system and some application files, and it automatically creates easily identified restore points. These restore points allow you to revert the system to a previous time. They are created daily and at the time of significant system events (such as when an application or driver is installed). You can also create and name your own restore points at any time.</li> <li> Registry Editor: Registry Editor is an advanced tool for viewing and changing settings in your system registry, which contains information about how your computer runs. Windows stores its configuration information in a database (the registry) that is organized in a tree format. Although Registry Editor enables you to inspect and modify the registry, normally you do not need to do so, and making incorrect changes can break your system.</li> <li>System Configuration Utility: The System Configuration utility automates the routine troubleshooting steps that Microsoft Product Support Services Support Professionals use when they diagnose system configuration issues. When you use this utility to modify the system configuration, you can select check boxes to eliminate issues that do not pertain to your configuration. This process reduces the risk of typing errors that you may make when you use a text editor such as Microsoft Notepad. You must be logged on as an administrator or as a member of the Administrators group to use the System Configuration utility. </li> <li> DirectX Diagnostic Tool: You can diagnose and resolve DirectX problems using the DirectX Diagnostic Tool and the Multimedia and Games Troubleshooter. The DirectX Diagnostic Tool helps you test the functionality of DirectX, to diagnose problems, and to adjust the level of hardware support used by DirectX, which can be used to avoid issues on some multimedia drives.</li> </ul> <a name="AboutProduct">About the Product</a> This pane displays the product version information and your registration information. <a name="Online_Upgrade">Online Upgrade - Check for latest version</a> This function will check our website to see whether there is any new version of our product available. If there is a new version available, it can do the online upgrade automatically. <a name="How to Get Online Help"> How to Get Online Help</a> The product is very user friendly and you can get help for it in many places. <ul> <li>In the head part of the right pane of each window, it briefs for what the main functions are of that window.</li> <li>In the right-top of the application window, there is a help icon, click the icon to get the help document for the current operation.</li> <li>You can also press F1 in any place of the application to bring up this document.</li> </ul> If your questions cannot be addressed in the online document, please feel free to contact us at <a href="mailto:support@registry-clean.net">support@registry-clean.net</a> and we will be glad to assist you. <hr> <a name="Q: What are the benefits to register">Q: What are the benefits to register?</a> A: The product is a shareware. You can try the full functional evaluation copy for free for 15 days. If you want to keep this handy tool after the trial period, you can register it. The advantage for registration: <blockquote> 1. You will get the registration code to activate the full version of the product after registration and the registration fee is a one time fee. 2. All users will get free email support, however, the support request from registered users are always take priority. 3. Registered user will get one year free upgrade from the purchase date. (Life time free upgrade option is also available for only additional 7.5$)</blockquote> <a name="Q: How much does it costs to register">Q: How much does it costs to register?</a> A: The registration fee for this product is 29.95$ for single user license with one year free upgrade. You can also purchase the life time free upgrade option with only additional 7.5$. The registration fee is an one time fee and you won't be billed yearly. <a name="Q: How to register the product"> Q: How to register the product?</a> A: The easiest way to register the product is to place the order online with credit card. We accepts VISA, MasterCard, Discover, American Express, Eurocard and PayPal. For offline order, we also accept check/money order in postal mail and purchase order. All transactions is 100% secure and safe. For details about the purchase options, please click the following link: <a href="PURCHASE"> Detailed instructions for how to register the product</a> <hr> Copyright ⌐ 2001-2007 iExpert Software </body> </html>