I’ve brought 2 PC’s back from BSOD with their product and am attempting a third now when I happened to run across you whiners. I was ok paying $19.75 to restore at least 2 and probably more PCs. Couldn’t be further from the case, I’m in recovery from being a cheap crybaby. You know who you are and there’s more than one, even a so-called computer engineer. Maybe you made a mistake, mine didn’t […]
The utility is primarily meant for PCs with hard disk drives, so if you have a computer with a solid state drive , CHKDSK isn’t necessary. SSDs come with a built-in system to deal with errors. The first sign that a hard disk drive is about to fail is when you encounter logical errors on the disk. When a drive incurs this kind of operational bug, the unreadable parts of the drive are reclassified […]
If you have more than one program installed from the same author you will find entries for each under the software author’s folder. Root keys are the top level keys in the database, their name all start with HKEY. In general, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE keeps the computer level settings, while HKEY_CURRENT_USER has the settings for the current user. When a program wants to access a certain setting it should first look into HKEY_CURRENT_USER then search HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE […]