Registry First Aid is a Windows Registry backup and maintenance tool. The application's main objective is to detect errors in the registry and fix them by eliminating duplicate entries or entries that lead to nowhere (in lay terms). For doing that, Registry First Aid uses an internal scanning engine to determine which registry entries are wrong. It can detect invalid paths, invalid file associations, invalid fonts, invalid application paths, among other invalid entries. It then evaluates how safe it is to delete these entries and gives you that information. The application gives you a list of entries with a green icon next to them; those are the safest to delete, followed by yellow. Obviously, the red ones are not to be deleted if you don't know what you are doing.
Other than the usual registry maintenance, Registry First Aid also allows you to defragment the registry and to manage it in a variety of ways. You can use it to search the registry for keyboards and you can create backups of the whole registry that you can later restore. There is also an option to manage the registry, although it is not available in the trial version. There are some limitations for the trial. You can't clean more than 20 entries per session and, as I have mentioned, some features are not available.
v8.2.0.2048 [Jan 28, 2012]
show number of avaialable suggested corrections if one or more found for each error entry
icon for shortcut folder in Start Menu;
icon added to "open in RegEdit" menu for Registry Manage;
option to restore default Excluded Paths to Scan for Corrections in settings;
new dialog to enter or edit excluded registry keys;
show number of excluded items near every category in Excluded Registry Keys;
show affected category excluded lists in confirmation dialog on adding excluded entries from the list of found errors;
quick jump to an entry in the list of found errors on starting type key name/value/invalid string;
- RFA agent bug fixed - it may appear that the last registry scan date is not correct;
Registry Manage "Open with.." plugin: read module descriptions from resource strings;
- Registry Manage bug fixed - only BHO plugins with not empty ProdID were listed;
Registry Manage: quick jump to an entry in the list of found errors on typing item name;
- Registry Manage: some long strings were truncated in the list;
Registry Manage: plugin BHO - read wow6432node key;
Restore Full Backups: option to select and delete several backups at once;
Restore Full Backup: show backup folder size under the backup list;.
