Interface Overview

1. The Above Yellow Area: shows the number of problems found and allows you to rescan the registry for problems, as well as repair your registry on invalid entries or references.

2. Left-hand Side Button: allows you to select the needed sections to scan.

3. Right-hand Sidebox: displays the summary of problems found. For the one, you do not want to repair, do not check it. Choose the right one you need to repair, and click “Repair your registry” in the upper box of the main window.

Select the Sections to Scan Registry for Problems

Registry Repair scans the entire Windows Registry deeply and provides a comprehensive analysis. It detects all the registry problems caused by an invalid Windows registry, obsolete software entries, and dead file extensions. All you need to do is select the registry sections you want to scan. When you start Register Repair, it will scan the registry for problems. You can cancel the scanning process by pressing the “Cancel” Button. All these steps will be finished within one minute, and the Scan results will be displayed on this page.

Remove Invalid Registry Entries

Part of the Windows Registry will become invalid but still accumulate on your system, such as remnants of removed software and orphaned shortcuts to deleted folders. These invalid registry junks slow down computer performance and cause system freezing. Registry Repair scans the Window registry and detects all these invalid registry entries. It does registry cleanup to lighten your Windows registry and speeds up your computer performance at peak. By default, all entries found are marked for deletion since all found entries can be safely removed. If you are an expert, you can select those you want to delete by check-marking them.

Fix Registry Errors and Exclude an Entry

Incorrect operations may cause damaged registry entries and therein pop-up PC errors, blue screens, and application failures. Registry Repair scans your computer and lists detected registry errors. You can delete a registry error, leave it without change, or exclude it in future registry cleanup and repairs. To repair registry errors, a click on the “Repair your registry” button is enough. This registry cleaning tool will help you fix all these registry errors to keep your Windows Registry error-free.

Ignore List Manager

Registry cleanup and repair may cause instability or incompatibility problems with certain software updates. If you want to exclude an application from the registry cleanup and repair, you can directly add it to the Ignore List. Applications included in Ignore List won’t be scanned and changed during future scans when you are running Registry Repair. If the software update becomes more stable on performance, you can just remove it from the Ignore List. Click “Ignore List Manager”, find the needed entry, and then delete it.

Restore Previous Repairs

Whenever you clean the Registry, a corresponding Undo file is generated for any changes made. It can be used to recreate the deleted entries. Click “Restore previous repairs”, select the file to be merged back to the registry and click the Restore button.

Export as a Text File

After scanning the registry, you can click “Repair your registry” in the upper part of the main window. During this process, this cleaning tool will do the following: backup the registry and perform an action according to your selection. At the same time, by choosing “File -> Export …”, you can save the list as a text file before repairing it. If you have problems repairing the registry, you can find out the entry from the export log and then exclude it in future registry cleanup and repairs.

Interface Overview

1.The Second Line Button: quick access button to Batch Uninstall, Uninstall checked Programs, Remove Entries or Modify Properties on the selected program.

2.The Left-hand Side Small Box: click “Recently Installed Programs”, “Large Programs”, “Rarely Used Programs” or “Windows Updates” to narrow down the results of the search on the programs you want to find.

3.The Upper box: displays all programs with their name, publisher, size, and date installed.

4.The Lower Box: shows detailed information on a selected program, such as program name, publisher, size, and date installed.

Enhanced Windows Add/Remove Program

Uninstall Manager is an enhanced Windows Add/Remove program with more powerful functions to uninstall stubborn programs. The standard Add/Remove program can’t uninstall software completely and often leaves broken registry keys, and unnecessary files on the hard disk. The more junk files on your PC, the slower it runs. Uninstall Manager can clean up all the junk files in seconds after uninstalling software. It provides a more user-friendly way to remove useless applications and enhance computer efficiency.

Batch Uninstall

Uninstall Manager supports batch uninstall and helps to remove multiple applications from the computer system with a single click, which is much useful for those people who like to try all kinds of applications. Uninstall Manager also allows you to make backups for certain programs in case of mistakes. Moreover, it won’t ask for a system reboot each time after uninstalling an application like other similar software.

To easily uninstall multiple programs, after you start “Uninstall Manager” and click “Batch Uninstall”, you can check the program that you want to uninstall. Once you have checked, you can click “Uninstall checked programs” in the second row of the main menu and choose “Yes”. Uninstall Manager is a specially-designed utility used to remove programs completely from your computer easily, fast, and completely without leaving any junk data.

Newly Installed Applications Marked Out

Uninstall Manager marks a red “New!” on the right of applications you have installed recently. This feature is very convenient for finding and uninstalling useless programs that users installed recently.

Backup/Restore Uninstall Information

Uninstall Manager allows users to back up uninstall information, export a list of installed applications, and restore removed entries. Users are even allowed to modify the properties of applications. The unique feature of Uninstall Manager is that it can auto fix invalid entries and make the Windows system error-free and smooth.

For later use or some unforeseen problems, you can backup/restore uninstall info before you have removed the entry. You can quickly back up/restore uninstall info with Uninstall Manager. First, choose the program you want to backup/restore, and go to File->Backup/Restore Uninstall Info->choose a file to backup/restore.

Quickly Find needed Programs

If you want to find “Recently Installed Programs”, “Large Programs”, “Rarely Used Programs” or “Windows Updates”, click the entries on the left panel. It helps to narrow down the results of the search on the programs you want to find.

Auto-fix Invalid Entries

Uninstall Manager allows you to auto-fix invalid entries. If you want to auto-fix invalid entries, you can go to Edit->AutoFix Invalid Entries. If all the entries work well, it will tell you: All programs installed on your system are OK, and no invalid entries are found.

Sort the List of Programs

On the description panel, click the column heading you want to sort by. To reverse the sort order, click the column heading a second time. You can sort the list of files and folders by Name, Publisher, Size, and Date Installed.

Interface Overview

1. The First Line Buttons: quick access button to “Quick Scan”, “Advanced Scan”, “Fix Shortcut” or “Delete” function.

2. The Lower box: displays a list of all broken shortcuts and references with some information: their name, target, location, and more.

Scan Invalid Shortcuts with Advanced Scan

When you click the Advanced Scan button, you will find two options for scanning for invalid shortcuts.

1. Only scan Start Menu and Desktop
2. Scan for hard-disk drives specified

After configuring the search options, click ‘Scan now’. You can cancel the scanning process by pressing the ‘Cancel’ button or pressing the ‘Esc’ Key.

Easily Fix Invalid Shortcuts

Shortcuts are links to files stored in different folders and drives on your PC’s hard disk. Your Windows Start Menu comprises shortcuts pointing to various files elsewhere on your hard drives. Double-clicking (or otherwise invoking) a shortcut automatically opens its corresponding application or document. Sometimes, the “targets” of these shortcuts are moved or deleted, leaving the shortcut pointing to a file or location that no longer exists. Such ‘dead’ shortcuts clutter your Start Menu and Desktop.

After the analysis, Shortcuts Fixer displays a list of all invalid shortcuts. Select the files and right-click on them to see the context menu. Click ‘Fix Shortcut’ to browse and select a new target file. Shortcuts Fixer will fix the broken link for you.

Delete broken Shortcuts found

After the scanning, you will be presented with a list of invalid links found. If some point to files that no longer exist or which have been moved, you can remove them. You can select those files that you want to delete by check-marking them. By default, all links found are marked for deletion, and you can choose to backup the selected shortcuts before deleting.

Click ‘Remove‘ to remove the selected shortcuts from the list;

Click ‘Recycle Bin‘ to move the selected shortcuts to Recycle Bin;

Click ‘Delete‘ to permanently delete the selected shortcuts.

How to restore deleted Shortcuts

In case you have deleted some invalid shortcuts mistakenly, you can restore them with a few clicks.

When you decide to remove the invalid shortcuts, by default, Shortcuts Fixer will back up the selected shortcuts before deleting them. You can restore the deleted shortcuts by clicking the Restore button, and a small window will pop up. Here you can delete the backup or restore it according to its creation date and size.

Interface Overview

1. The Above Red Area: shows how much space junk files are found and allows you to rescan junk files, as well as clean up all the unnecessary files.

2. Left-hand Side Button: allows you to select the needed tasks to scan junk files.

3. Right-hand Sidebox: displays the summary of junk files found with their path. For the one, you do not want to clean, do not check it. Just choose the right one you need to wipe out, and click “Start Cleaning” in the upper box of the main window.

Cleanup files by using the “Custom Files and Folders” feature

Windows applications create several files on your hard drive for temporarily storing the data. These files are supposed to be removed when the application terminates. Often, however, the temporary files are not removed because of a program error or careless architecture, because your system was reset or not shut down properly, or because another application has stopped responding or crashed. It is important to clean up those files to keep your PC running fast and smoothly. You can use the “Custom Files and Folders” feature to clean up the files and folders you want.

You can find the “Custom Files and Folders” feature from the “Edit” menu at the top, or directly click “Custom Files and Folders” at the bottom of this page, and a new window will pop up.

On the pop-up window, click the “add” button, and you will get another window that allows you to choose the files and folders or enter the included content you wish to remove and click the “OK” button. Then you can “scan” the file or folders you selected and choose to “start cleaning” after checking the files from the report of total junk files.

Backup Checked files and Restore the Backup

In case of accidental deletion of important files after a cleaning up, you can back up the files before deleting them. Mark the check box in front of the files, and click “Backup Checked” from
File Menu. At some point, if you decide to stop the backup process, click on the ‘Cancel’ button on the new pop-up window.

To restore a backup, you can click “Restore” from the File menu, and a box will show you these backups. According to the Creation Date and Size, you can choose the one you want to recover, then click the “Restore” button. If you want to remove the backups, choose the backup and click the “Delete” button.

Exclude the file and Ignore the List

Junk and obsolete files can accumulate to megabytes of wasted hard drive space, as well as turn into potential error-producing cross-linked drive references. Disk Cleaner targets these specific types of files missed by common disk utilities like Uninstaller, Defrag, Scandisk, etc., ensuring that all junk files are removed from your system.

After scanning, Disk Cleaner will display a summary report of the total junk files found on your system. There are various options, and all of them are self-explanatory. Click on the “Properties” below, you will see the detailed information about this file. Click on the “Open Folder” next to “Properties”, you will find this file in its location.

If you do not want to remove some files, you can add the files to ignore list. To exclude a file in the search result, mark the Check box in front of the file and then click the “Exclude this file” button. The file will be added to ignore list. If you want to remove the files from ignore list, you can click “Ignore List”, and a new window will pop up. Here you can view all the files that should never be considered junk. Click the “Add” button, and you can exclude more files. To delete the files, check the box before the file, and then click the “Remove” button, and finally, click the “OK” button to close this window.

Interface Overview

1.The Above box: shows three types of extensions in your right-click menu: Files&Folders, New, and Send To.

2. The Lower box: displays the description of the extensions, as well as version details, company information, file name, and more.

How to Handle Files&Folders in your Right Click menu

When you right-click a file/folder, there may be a huge delay before Windows displays the context menu. When you try to empty Recycle Bin (from Common Tasks), it opens Quick Finder instead. Error message “Windows Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience” when you right-click a folder. These problems are caused by a bad context menu handler.

Context Menu Manager allows you to delete the bad shell extensions. Start Context Menu Manager, and you will see the “Files&Folders” menu. Here you can view what is in your right-click menu.

When you click an extension, the related information will show below: version details, company name, copyright, file name, and more. Finally, find the item you never want, and click the Remove button to delete it from the “Files&Folders” menu.

How to Remove the items from the “New” menu

Many applications, such as Office and other document-based programs, may add options to the New context menu. This can slow down the system since IE 4 as to generate this list, has to fetch the icons for each of the documents.

If you want to delete some items, you can start Context Menu Manager. Choose the “New” menu, and find the item you never need. Finally, click the Remove button to remove it from the “New” menu.

How to Customize the items from “Send to”

In your right-click menu, you may find some items from the “Send to” menu that you never need. How to remove these useless items? 

Here start Context Menu Manager, click the “Send to” menu, and find the one you never use, finally click the Remove button to delete it from the “Send to” menu.