When your Registries are Dying, What Do you Do?
Quite often there are stages when a user finds that something is wrong with his/her computer and quite frankly most of them don’t even know what exactly went wrong or how to correct this problem.
Majority of such population are either the young college going newbie’s or the middle to old aged office going or retired people. The only problem with either kind is the lack of education about the applications and utilities on the internet which can make their and their computers life a lot easier.
What happened to there computer? Majority of these people have come across an advertisement on the internet and after clicking on those ads and few more with similar kind they find that there computer is acting crazy or getting slower. If they go in for an expensive repair or check-up they will be ripped off their pockets. So how can such class of not so computer savvy peoples be assisted? Online education about the product is the only way to easy off their curiosity.
For those who have found their computer speed coming down from a sports car to that of a truck, can now look in for the Registry First Aid software which is the most comprehensive system utility present today to help overcoming odd computer behaviors.
It’s faster and identifies more problems aggressively that are directly affecting your computer’s performance than any other software. Do you know, every application installed on your computer knowingly or unknowingly create new links in the registry?
Now what is Registry? Registry is the system application which stores the values generated and created when any Microsoft or Non-Microsoft compatible application is installed on a windows operating system like windows 98, 2000, XP etc.
Registry First Aid is a People’s Choice award winning software with great feedback and news from its user around the world to try. Its major accomplishment are improving system performance, killing unwanted or missing registry entries which were causing the slow computer boot-up, various application hang state and even the much talked out ‘Blue Screen’ scenarios. Lots of people have appreciated the way this software has helped their computers.
Do you know? When an application is installed on the operating system it creates a minimum of 100 registry entries. Also, if you remove a 3rd party windows compatible application, it does not go away without leaving at-least 5 invalid links.
Do you know? Majority of system crashes are caused by the failure of registry to find out the referred link pointing to a particular system or application resource which is no longer available on that local computer!
In similar cases if the files were moved from one drive to another, they would not update the registry links and cause a much hated delay. Therefore, things Registry First Aid does is to:
· Find any invalid file/folder links or references in Windows operating system which can be 9x/NT/2000/ME/XP
· Allows the user to specify the drive and path to look for registry referred files or folders
· Repair the registry by finding exact match to re-link invalid entries
· Give an ability to user to choose to delete or retain invalid references
· Create undo files which can be used to bring back a system to a previous registry state. All the undo files are stored in RegEdit4 format.
Ted Peterson
http://www.articlesbase.com/software-articles/when-your-registries-are-dying-what-do-you-do-106317.html
How to get rid of UIPopHidden?
virus thing…I don’t know what it is, but it pops up when ever I shut my computer off. Ever since it showed up my computer runs slow, really really slow.
I’ve googled it, and found solutions, but I don’t understand them, they’re really complicated. They say to download this, install that, type this out here and if you mess up your computer may die.
Anyone know how to get rid of it? Anyone mind explaining it as they they were explaining it to someone really dumb about this?
I’m serious, I want to get rid of it, but need literal step by step instructions or I will mess up, with a lot of descriptions of what I should be seeing/doing/typing.
Anyone out there with a lot patience who can kindly help please reply.
My DXDiag below dotted line (posting before anyone asks for it)
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System Information
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Time of this report: 5/10/2009, 01:12:23
Machine name: MOOGLEPUFF
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3 (2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.090206-1234)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
System Model: Dell DM061
BIOS: Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 2.0.5
Processor: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.80GHz
Memory: 502MB RAM
Page File: 660MB used, 745MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.5512 32bit Unicode
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DxDiag Notes
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DirectX Files Tab: No problems found.
Display Tab 1: No problems found.
Sound Tab 1: No problems found.
Sound Tab 2: No problems found.
Music Tab: No problems found.
Input Tab: No problems found.
Network Tab: No problems found.
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DirectX Debug Levels
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Direct3D: 0/4 (n/a)
DirectDraw: 0/4 (retail)
DirectInput: 0/5 (n/a)
DirectMusic: 0/5 (n/a)
DirectPlay: 0/9 (retail)
DirectSound: 0/5 (retail)
DirectShow: 0/6 (retail)
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Display Devices
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Card name: Intel(R) G965 Express Chipset Family
Manufacturer: Intel Corporation
Chip type: Intel(R) GMA 3000
DAC type: Internal
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_29A2&SUBSYS_01DD1028&REV_02
Display Memory: 256.0 MB
Current Mode: 1024 x 768 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor: Plug and Play Monitor
Monitor Max Res: 1600,1200
Driver Name: igxprd32.dll
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.4704 (English)
DDI Version: 9 (or higher)
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 10/7/2006 01:23:32, 53248 bytes
WHQL Logo’d: Yes
WHQL Date Stamp: n/a
VDD: n/a
Mini VDD: igxpmp32.sys
Mini VDD Date: 10/6/2006 22:24:00, 1181824 bytes
Device Identifier: {D7B78E66-6AE2-11CF-F861-D721A3C2CB35}
Vendor ID: 0x8086
Device ID: 0x29A2
SubSys ID: 0x01DD1028
Revision ID: 0x0002
Revision ID: 0x0002
Video Accel:
Deinterlace Caps: n/a
Registry: OK
DDraw Status: Enabled
D3D Status: Enabled
AGP Status: Not Available
DDraw Test Result: Not run
D3D7 Test Result: Not run
D3D8 Test Result: Not run
D3D9 Test Result: Not run
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Sound Devices
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Description: SigmaTel Audio
Default Sound Playback: Yes
Default Voice Playback: Yes
Hardware ID: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_8384&DEV_7618&SUBSYS_102801DD&REV_1002
Manufacturer ID: 1
Product ID: 100
Type: WDM
Driver Name: sthda.sys
Driver Version: 5.10.4991.0000 (English)
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
WHQL Logo’d: Yes
Date and Size: 3/20/2006 20:06:04, 1156648 bytes
Other Files:
Driver Provider: SigmaTel
HW Accel Level: Full
Cap Flags: 0xB5B
Min/Max Sample Rate: 44100, 192000
Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 1, 0
Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 0, 0
HW Memory: 0
Voice Management: No
EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No
I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No
Registry: OK
Sound Test Result: Not run
Description: Modem #0 Line Playback (emulated)
Default Sound Playback: No
Default Voice Playback: No
Hardware ID:
Manufacturer ID: 1
Product ID: 81
Type: Emulated
Driver Name:
Driver Version:
Driver Attributes:
WHQL Logo’d:
Date and Size:
Other Files:
Driver Provider:
HW Accel Level: Full
Cap Flags: 0x0
Min/Max Sample Rate: 0, 0
Static/Strm HW
BTW, I use a Dell Dimension E520
You should consider copying all your important data to CDs, DVDs, or an external hard drive, and then reinstalling the factory software that came with the computer and start over.
That will probably be faster than getting any malware or badly-behaving software off your computer.
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I used Yahoo Search with the word
UIPopHidden
and found very little, it appears that is a BHO – Browser Helper Object – that is part of security software used by some ISP (Internet Service Providers). It is always possible, though, that malware has been written to imitate that software.
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One website said :
http://www.webuser.co.uk/forums/showflat.php?Number=394022
the Uipophidden problem is caused by your isp’s security program (pcguard) having a fault, the best way to fix it is to uninstall pcguard and reinstalling it
[ scroll to the bottom of the page ]
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Another website said :
http://forum.gladiator-antivirus.com/lofiversion/index.php/t76817.html
Scroll Down to this reply by "LoPhatPhuud"
Then scroll down again to the last entry by "albertrbh" where he thinks one of the files is a Trojan downloader.
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