Removing windows license information from the registry. Cleaning the registry of outdated keys (extending the trial period of akvis programs). In this problem

Cleaning the "tails" of a program in the registry remaining after its removal.

Cleaning the registry after uninstalling programs

Today, in this article we will look at how to clean registry from " traces"remote programs.
For example, after deleting the 360 ​​application Total Security There are several keys left in the registry, for example, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/360 Total Security and folders with files like C:Users/username/AppData/Local/360 Total Security, where the value Username corresponds your name account . As can be seen from the names of the remaining registry keys and folders, the search should be carried out not just by name applications, but also by company name, which developed program.

This is done manually like this...

After uninstalling the program in a standard way you should search for the remaining file folders through means search. Typically there are several certain directories in which folders and files can be located various programs (you need to view objects containing both the name of the program and the name developer):

C:Program Files;C:Program Files/Common Files;

C:Users/username/Application Data;

C:Users/username/Local Settings;

C:WindowsTemp.

By default some of the listed folders are hidden. To access them you should

temporarily allow display hidden and system objects.

Temporarily - because,after completing the procedure for removing unnecessary objects

Parameter hiding system objects recommended reactivate.

It will be safer this way.

1. Open any folder on your computer.

2. Press the key Alt on the keyboard to display the menu bar in the folder window.

3 . Select menu command Service →Folder properties(Folders settings).

A dialog box of the same name will open.

4. Go to the tab View. The contents of the dialog box will change.

On the tab View dialog box Folder properties You can change additional settings for displaying folder contents.

5. In the control group Extra options scroll the slider vertical stripe scrolling down to display the items you want.

6. Reset the checkbox Hide protected system files (recommended).

A warning dialog box appears.

7 . Click the button Yes to confirm the action.

8. Set the switch to position : Show hidden files, folders and drives

9. Click the button OK. Dialog window Folder properties will close and

hidden and systemic objects will be displayed.

After clean your computer, set the controls described above to position default

Cleaning the registry

Manually cleaning the registry - requires patience and attention. For example, when searching for a registry key by a certain value search stops at the first found match

What we are looking for. To continue the search you should select the appropriate command menu Edit--Find Next or F3. Now, I'll show you how to work with registry editor, included in operating system Windows XP.

1 . Click the button Start, located on the taskbar.

2. IN line search located at the bottom of the main menu, enter the value

regedit.

3. Click the button OK. A program window will open Registry Editor

4. Select menu command Edit → Find.

A dialog box will open Search.

As in the case of searching for folders and files left behind when deleting an application, so

When searching for keys in the registry should use titles both the application and the developer. Since we are removing the “tails” of the application360 Total Security then..

5. In the input field Find-- specify value 360 Total Security

and press the button Find next.

Window Search will close and the search process will begin.

When you find the desired key or partition-- make sure what are you going to do

Delete data related to the remote application.

You can delete a key or partition two ways.

In one case, the value is highlighted by clicking the mouse and pressing a key -Delete on the keyboard. Otherwise, you can click on the value right click and in the appeared context menu select item-Delete.

In both cases, you will need to confirm your intention by pressing the button Yes,

In the dialog box that appears.

Typically, programs place data in sections SOFTWARE

standard sections

HKEY_CURRENT_USER(current account settings),

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE(parameters of this computer)

You should be very careful when making changes to the registry. Incorrect actions when

Changing the registry can seriously harm your system. Before making changes to the registry

preferably create a backup copy of the registry.

Continue with your steps to clear the registry of the remaining keys:

1. After deleting the found registry key - continue search by pressing a key F3.

2. Repeat the registry search with keyword360 Total until it appears

"registry search completed" window

As you can see, the process manual cleaning "traces" remote programs is a very tedious task and you need to be patient, and most importantly, attention.

Don't forget to periodically clean the registry, especially after uninstalling programs. I recommend program Wise Registry Cleaner cleans well, and most importantly, safely and optimizes the registry system on the tab of the same name.

Few people know, but after you have purchased and activated a license for Windows 7, the system no longer needs this key. It is needed only once - upon activation. The system does not check it further. And the most interesting thing is that this key is written to the registry, and this is already dangerous. Ask why? Yes, because if an attacker gets into your system, he can easily copy this key for himself and then use it for his own purposes. For example, create pirated assemblies with this key or activate it for yourself. This will subsequently lead to the fact that this key will be blacklisted and you will not be able to receive updates and will receive all the “delights” of non-licensed Windows.
Therefore, for security and protection purposes, those in the know usually delete the activation key.

How to delete license key Windows activation 7 from the register.

The most interesting thing is that we will not work with you.

1) Start Menu - Run () or keyboard shortcut Win + R and enter slui

2) In response, the key license verification service will open. If you don't have activated Windows, then the window will look like this:

If there is activation, the window will look like this:

Of course, if it’s not activated, we activate it and buy it. If activated, read on.

3) Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> (or Win + R enter cmd) and enter the command in it slmgr-cpky and press Enter

If everything worked, a message will appear The product key was successfully removed from the registry

If it didn't work out

then try running the command prompt as an administrator and repeat the command. How to do this - see the link at the beginning of this paragraph.

RMB by shortcut command line and select from the menu Run as administrator

Activation will not be lost due to these actions. You can check in Computer Properties then or reboot and check again. The activation key for Windows 7 was deleted, but the activation remained.

How to delete registry keys?

Master's answer:

Although Windows interface provides users with a fairly wide range of functions for managing the system; there will still be more options for changing parameters using the registry editor. This is possible if this action has no restrictions on your account.

Run the regedit command by typing it into the Run utility, which is accessible from the Start menu. In new versions of operating systems Windows systems The command is simply written in the search bar. A Registry Editor window should appear on your screen. In the edit menu, select the search item and enter the name of the key that you want to delete. Also set additional parameters to search for the required records. In the found positions, highlight unnecessary keys. Through the "File" menu, perform the "Export" operation and enter the file name. Specify the directory to save it and press Enter. This is necessary for cases when you need to restore a registry key, for this reason you must enter the appropriate name.

In the edit menu, delete the keys you selected and confirm the operation by clicking on the “Ok” button. Please note that many entries may contain identical keys, in this case try deleting the entry from HKEY_CURRENT_USER, if after this the others are not deleted, delete them manually. After this you need to close the editor Windows registry and restart your computer. If you suddenly have problems with resolution, this option is also configured in the edit menu. In the window that opens, go to the advanced settings tab and change the resolution for yourself.

To remove operating system registry keys, there are many different third-party utilities that work better than the standard editor due to the presence of additional functions. Such utilities can also be found in operating system optimization programs.

From time to time, to speed up the system and troubleshoot problems, it is recommended to manually or using additional programs clean the registry of unnecessary entries; this will significantly save your computer's resources, freeing them up for much more important tasks. This will also remove unused registry components that could cause problems later on.

Hello admin! Question, how to clean the registry from accumulated garbage: remaining keys, parameters, values remote programs, but I want to do it correctly, since I have a sad experience.

Just recently I installed one program on my computer and was surprised to find that another one was installed along with it, some kind of operating system and registry cleaner. The most interesting thing is that this program began to run along with Windows, constantly offering to clean the computer of various garbage. Just for fun, I decided to try it and clicked OK, the process of cleaning the registry from unnecessary entries began, after a minute the check ended and the program issued a report, 1024 errors were found, which the utility offered to fix, I agreed and clicked OK again, the registry errors were deleted and the computer rebooted and didn't boot anymore!

The next time I booted, the error Windows\system32\config\system... and something else appeared on a black screen. With great difficulty, we managed to restore the operating system using your article.

I also found an interesting article on your website where you can clean the registry of keys left behind by a virus without resorting to any programs. That's why I decided to write to you and ask how to clean the registry from garbage, and is it even necessary, because many users never clean the registry at all and don’t think about it.

How to clean the registry

1) What is a registry!

2) Is cleaning the registry really necessary?

3) Did you know that if a malicious program leaves its keys in the registry, then no registry cleaner will find them. How to find unnecessary keys in the registry manually without resorting to any programs.

3) How to clean the registry with EnhanceMySe7en

4) How to clean the registry with CCleaner

Hello friends! A good question has been asked and to answer it, I will tell you in a nutshell what the registry is and how it is used by Windows.

The register is the most important Windows component, appeared in ancient Windows 3.1 as a file Req.dat.

The registry contains a huge database or repository of configuration information of all programs installed on the operating system and Windows itself. Information about all users, file extensions, drivers, connected devices, activations, and so on, all this is stored in the registry.

Any application, when installed in the operating system, leaves its configuration data in the registry, and also any application does not delete all data from the registry when it is uninstalled (removed) from the computer. This is a well-known fact.

For example, I will remove a program from my computer Adobe Photoshop, and then I’ll check the registry for the presence of keys for this program and they will be there,

The same thing will happen with the Download Master program.

And if you remove a more serious program from Windows, for example, then pay attention to how much garbage it leaves behind in the registry. And if you imagine that we have been using the operating system for a year!

It becomes clear that quite a lot of this junk left by programs after being removed from the computer remains in the registry, but here’s another question, my friends - does all this junk interfere with the performance of the operating system? No one has been able to prove what is preventing it. Isn’t this proof that the well-known Microsoft developer of Windows himself never created a special tool for his brainchild that would automatically clean the registry. yes, it is also present, but you can clean the registry only manually using the special regedit editor built into Windows.

In what cases do I clean the registry myself?

Friends, at one time I experimented ad nauseum with various registry cleaners, but never came to a convincing result. I believe that there is no great need for constant automatic cleaning registry, since no automatic cleaning is as good as you think. If you deleted a program and it left its keys in the registry, then Windows will never access these keys and because of these keys there will in no way be a drop in system performance or any errors. Garbage in the registry can amount to several tens of kilobytes of unnecessary sections and have no noticeable impact on system speed

But how to delete unnecessary entries in the registry you should still know and here's why.

As an example, I will give a real case. A friend of mine picked up a malicious program that launched an executable file from the C:\Windows\AppPatch\hsgpxjt.exe folder. We successfully removed the virus, but the entries created in the registry by the malicious program remained, since the following window appeared when the system booted.

None of the existing automatic registry cleaners helped me then; they simply did not find malicious entries.

I had to manually find malicious keys in the registry located in the registry hives

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Windows

Keys added

Load REG_SZ C:\WINDOWS\apppatch\hsgpxjt.exe

Run REG_SZ C:\WINDOWS\apppatch\hsgpxjt.exe

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Key added

userinit REG_SZ C:\Windows\apppatch\hsgpxjt.exe

I wrote a detailed article about this case "" you can read it. From this article you can learn how to find unnecessary keys in the registry using the built-in Windows editor regedit.

Well, what can we wish for users who want to have at hand automatic tool to clean the registry.

How to clean the registry with EnhanceMySe7en

Before using registry cleaner programs, I advise you to create a system restore point (let’s lay down a straw before we fall)

At one time I used the EnhanceMySe7en program, it is a very good tweaker for Windows 7, it includes two dozen convenient tools for Windows management 7. EnhanceMySe7en also contains a startup manager, hard defragmenter disk drive, hard drive monitoring tool, and process manager (some tools are only available in paid version). This cool program is unfortunately not English language, but everything will be clear to you anyway.

Official website of the program http://seriousbit.com/tweak_windows_7/

Click Download v3.7.1, 12.6 MB and download free version,

It does not contain some tools, such as a defragmenter hard drive.

To start cleaning the registry you need to go to the Tools tab and click just one button Registry Cleaner.

Then you can view the Details or directly click on Delete button Remove errors.

That's it, the registry is cleared.

How to clean the registry with CCleaner

Even more simple program CCleaner, which is used by the vast majority of users. It is installed on literally everyone who needs it and doesn’t need it. Sometimes it seems to me that it is part of a set of standard Windows programs. No matter what kind of computer they bring to me for repair, it will always be installed there.

You can download the program on its official website

http://ccleaner.org.ua/download/

You can portable version CCleaner, which works without installation and can be carried with you on a flash drive. There is even a version for Mac.

Downloaded, run the program as administrator.

First of all, go to Settings and select Russian language.

Registry tab. Click on the Search for problems button.

The first time the program finds a lot of errors.

Click Fix.

And select a location to save the backup.

Then you can view all registry errors or simply click the Fix marked ones button.

This backup copy you will need it if something goes wrong after cleaning the registry. What could go wrong? For example, some already activated program will ask for activation again, but don’t worry, this happens very rarely. In this case, press double click right mouse on backup file registry

Answer Yes

An advanced user will figure out if he needs to delete a non-deletable file, but will he be able to delete a non-deletable registry key or folder? WITH free program on this page, it will be easy to do.

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The interface is extremely simple. There's no browsing like regedit, no tree to help you find the key you need: just a window to enter the key or value, and a Delete button to get rid of it.

Direct access to the registry

The program ignores the normal method uninstall Windows, and writes data directly to the Registry. As a result, the program bypasses any permissions issues and it won't matter if malware use Windows API: The key is deleted in any case. (Of course, if malware is running on your computer, it can always overwrite the key later, but Registry DeleteEx at least gives you a chance to regain control).

Be careful: if you delete something important, the system may crash and/or simply stop booting. Only use this program if you know what you are doing!

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