RegCure Maintains File Associations
RegCure safely, efficiently, effectively scans, cleans, repairs, restores, and maintains your Windows file registry. Routine maintenance with RegCure especially prevents problems with defective, obsolete, or incorrect file associations.
When you click the file name or icon for any of your files, Windows automatically associates the file with the program that created it. The suffixes attached to the file names prompt the CPU to open the appropriate application before it opens the file; for example, jpegs and gifs open in picture viewer or PhotoShop, and docs open in Microsoft Word. If your operating system cannot find the application that created the file, it either will prompt you to select an appropriate alternative, or it will send an error message. Problems arise when a file is “orphaned”—the association between the data and the driver gets lost. You most easily can rebuild the association by running your registry cleaner.
Do Not Attempt Manual Repairs On Your File Registry
You have no reason to attempt repairing your file registry with manual commands and operations, because your registry cleaner does the work far more precisely than you and a gang of MIT graduate students ever could.
File association error messages inadvertently may mislead you, sending you digging into your control panel and system files, putting you at risk of damaging some of the most essential information in your hard drive. The standard file association error message reads, “This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this operation. Create an association in the Folder Options control panel.” The message creates the illusion that you can do a couple of quick point-and-clicks, effortlessly solving your problem. A few Windows OS service packs include more precise instructions, but they do not substantially reduce your risk of damaging your essential files. If you see the file associations error message, simply run your registry cleaner, which will quickly, correctly, and safely restore orphan files to their associative links.
Like the error messages, internet information inadvertently may mislead you, too. If, responding to an error message, you visit several of the most popular do-it-yourself websites, you will discover series of programming commands for changing and correcting file association errors. Their information is correct and generally timely, but it, too, promotes the illusion that the operations are simple and safe. Do not get into the business of manual corrections. Instead, run your registry cleaner, because it protects your system’s integrity as it fixes the errors.
The Registry Cleaner’s Security Advantages
Before scanning and repairing your file registry, RegCure automatically backs-up your files and sets a “system restore point.” These two operations enable you to recover your entire system in the rare event of a crash. Then, your registry cleaner quickly scans all the files in your registry, detecting errors and assigning priority to them. When the deep, comprehensive scan is complete, your registry cleaner systematically repairs the defects and restores your system to optimum function, defragmenting and compacting files to make more operating memory available for your PC’s other functions. In addition to searching for errors in file trees, file names, and application paths, your registry cleaner also searches for spyware, malware, adware, viruses, Trojan Horses, and other insidious devices that frequently evade detection by standard anti-virus software.
