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Scannable Sections in the Advanced Registry Fix

The Advanced Registry Fix will scan and repair entries in the following sections of the Windows Registry.

ActiveX, OLE, COM Sections

    This section covers with the currently installed COM and ActiveX objects. The Advanced Registry Fix performs complete heuristic analysis of Activex OLE COM sections as they are interlinked and interdependent and will repair those invalid registry entries.
Registry Integrity
    This section deals with the locations of per-user special folders. The Advanced Registry Fix ensures that the Windows shell folder entries exist in the locations specified by removing the registry entries that don’t or no longer exists at the locations specified.
User Software Settings
    This section covers with the software settings of the currently logged user. System Registry is divided into two parts, one according to individual user and another for a system as a whole. Thus the setting section of currently logged user will be searched for invalid references.
System Software Settings
    This section covers with the system software settings. The Advanced Registry Fix scans through all these system software settings. Most of the Windows stuff is hidden under this section. Searching "System Software Settings" can take several minutes.
Shared DLLs
    This section deals with the orphan reference to system's shared Dll’s. The Advanced Registry Fix repairs the registry entries of dll files which map to files that no longer exist in the hard drive.
Window Fonts
    This section deals with the list of fonts that exist in the fonts folder of the Windows Operating System. Many users install new font faces and remove them if they do not like it. Windows store each reference to a font in the registry. If it is not cleaned regularly, Windows can get confuse and start showing different font faces instead of what you expect. The Advanced Registry Fix repairs those registry entries.
Invalid File Associations
    This section deals with the invalid file associations. Sometimes a file association is created but the program to be opened is removed or deleted. Thus windows gets confused when you try to open a file by clicking an icon whose related program is no longer available on your system. The Advanced Registry Fix repairs those invalid file associations.
Startup Programs
    This section deals with those programs which run at windows startup. The Advanced Registry Fix repairs those items in the registry which refer to these startup programs that no longer exist at the specified location on the hard drive.
Sound and Appevents
    This section deals with sound files associated for application events. If a sound file used for any event is missing applications and Windows have to wait in confusion which may result in some unexpected events like playing irregular sounds. The Advanced Registry Fix repairs those missed sound files.
Add/Remove Programs
    It contains currently installed programs which are shown in Add/Remove section from the Control Panel. Some times you might already have uninstalled a program but it may continue to show itself in the registry. The Advanced Registry Fix will report you all such errors..
Help Files
    Every application in windows should register their help file in the help section of the registry. The Advanced Registry Fix will repair those registry entries whose help file references no longer exist in the specified locations.
Application Paths/Temp Files/Shortcuts
    This section deals with the locations of the software programs, temporary files(.tmp files), Scandisk or Checkdisk fragment (.chk) files in addition to orphaned shortcuts on the system. The Advanced Registry Fix will search and scan for all those orphaned references.
File Extensions
    This section deals with list of file extensions that are registered in the registry during application installation. The Advanced Registry Fix repairs those file extensions that have no reference with applications installed on the system.

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