ade0410 wrote:
Just to add to my original post on this thread, I think I have found the cause of the problem I had at boot up. Although I followed the clean uninstall/install procedure detailed, I have since had few instances of the auto repair appearing again on bootup. The reason? Well I have used a program called Reg Organizer for many years and use it to clean registry entries left behind after uninstalling apps. You can do this manually or use the automatic reg repair function and you can also run a reg defrag. If I perform either one of these two actions, then the next time I boot my pc I get the auto repair appearing again and the subsequent symptons (see my original post on this thread).
The solution is obviously for me not to use those functions from within Reg Organizer. Not ideal but I can live with it. Thought I mention this seeing as NIS 2011 obviously has issues with this app as Reg Organizer must do something during the next boot sequence which causes NIS to throw a wobbly!!!!
Glad to see you joined the club of those who have learned that routinely cleaning up Windows and especially the registry is not a good idea!
It is not a good idea to try to micromanage Windows ..... I sometimes wonder if Microsoft actually knows what goes on in there so why should a routine third party piece of software be able to decide safely what is not needed?
If you have a definite problem then you can go looking for things to change, once you know what caused the problem, but if you do not then a few unused lines of code in the registry are highly unlikely to be doing any harm and in some cases unused code is there for use later if you add or change something.
I do Windows support elsewhere and I can't tell you how often we get a message posted:
"I cleaned up my windows installation and got rid of a lot of stuff that is not needed ...... and now my computer won't boot up. What should I do?"
Hugh
