Registry Anomaly

I ALWAYS have a recent backup before I try a new program, especially a cleaner of any sort. External Hard Drive are very cheap and getting cheaper all the time. By the way, CCleaner on default options, give you a choice to backup the registry BEFORE it attempts to clean it. Sorry to hear that others have experienced issue with it.

As for a free backup program, the general consensus here appears to be Macrium Reflect free, which I demoed a few months back. The GUI (graphical user interface) is slightly intimidating for newbies in my opinion & I usually suggest AOMEI Backupper free. The GUI is much simpler. As always, GOOGLE is your friend, YouTube has a plethora of videos on these tools as well as many others. If you trash your registry, Windows creates a new registry backup every week or two. C:\Windows\System32\config\RegBack, which can be utilized to restore a corrupt registry, making re-imaging the C: drive or system restore unnecessary. Brink has an excellent tutorial on it in the Tutorial section, Startup Repair Infinite Loop Recovery, although the title is a little off subject, the process/steps to replace the registry components is identical. Additionally, Brian at Britec Computers UK has video demonstration on the subject, Restore Registry Hives on Windows 7 in Command Prompt, albeit, he doesn't include the cautionary check for 0 bits/bites in RegBack files, checks to see if your in the correct directories, etc., that Brink provides.

I don't believe SFC Scannow will repair the registry entries. Use the System File Checker tool to repair missing or corrupted system files

If you run System Update Redness Tool it parses the data and creates a section "missing files" and attach the CheckSUR log which will then be located at %WinDir%\Logs\CBS\ to your next post, I'm pretty sure I have replacement files for your missing/corrupt ones. You can do either repair first, reg replacement with RegBack or missing/corrupt system files, makes no difference, your choice.

JoWazzoo said:

Any software and some changes made subsequent may not work correctly. Particularly new installs. Some may not work at all. Everything writes to the Registry these days

Windows creates RegBack new every 7-10 days, if you haven't installed

You shouldn't loose anything using RegBack to replace your registry. If you have a program you installed that isn't working correctly after registry replacement, go to Computer, uninstall program, click on the program, select uninstall and most often on of the choices on the next menus is repair. It is on Avast free anti-virus and many others in my experience. If that option is unavailable, Belarc adviser, free program, will locate all your paid for installed program keys. You can print them to a file or paper. Reinstall programs, insert product key.

tweaking.com's registry backup / restore utility also does a great job of creating registry hives backups. Both on-demand and scheduled registry backups can be made into any specified directory or its default choice.