Surely a fix it utility is just a nice to have. Microsoft has provided me with a repair utility in the form of the registry editor, so why not use it.
After waiting forever for my pc to boot up, I opened the editor. Now I must warn you. Most of the sites that had infomation about editing your registry said BEWARE your pc may not recover if you delete or alter the wrong files in your registry.
But I had made a list of the start up errors and the run time errors that had been appearing on my machine so I thought I would just locate and remove them and then everything would be fine.
So I accessed the editor and started looking for the files related to the errors I was getting. The registry in your computer is normally rather large, but there is a handy find feature. For some reason though, it was not finding the files I was looking for.
What seemed like hours later, after trawling through the files manually I found one of the strings I was looking for. I highlighted the file and pressed delete. I shut down my pc and re-started it.
But it wouldn’t boot up properly. All of my photos, including the ones of my newly born, first grandchild were on the machine. I foolishly hadn’t backed up. Would they be lost forever?
Maybe I should have just bought a fix it utility and taken head of all the warnings I had read that said “Do not edit the regsitry unless you definately know what you are doing”.
So I packed it all up and took it to the local pc expert to see if he could fix it.
A week later the guy rang me with good news. He was able to restore my registry and the bill was only $300. Cheap really when you think about all of the sentimental and personal information you end up storing on your pc.
