Vista - Registry Cleaners Taking A Long Time Scanning Vista x64....

Thanks. Well I got rid of XP. I tried to format the partition it was on, but Vista wouldn't let me, so I tried to delete all the files and directories and it would only let me do some. So I thought I'd outsmart it and put the Vista DVD in and format it that way and I did. I had a little surprise though when I went to boot up. It said something about it not finding a bootloader and to press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart and I did and the same message came up again.

Then I started Vista install again and selected to repair the computer and it said it found errors in Vista and when it was finished it should restart with the errors fixed. Well, it restarted, but nothing was fixed. By this time, I was pretty angry at myself because I forgot that I installed XP first then Vista, so it makes sense that when I completely got rid of XP without first editing Vista's Bootexecute file, it screwed it up completely. The thing is, I was going to do that after I formatted the HD, bu I forgot that XP had the vital info. Anyway, I tried once more with the repair with the Vista DVD and this time, it came up differently. It showed what version of Vista I had and then it let me select a template of problems to choose from. I of course chose the start up problems and it ran again, and looked just like it did before. It rebooted and boom, it fixed it!

I nearly screwed everything up but doing things too fast! I installed XP first because it has a different boot loader than Vista and I read pretty much everywhere that, that is the way it should be done (XP then Vista) if you're going to dual-boot. So all is well now and my end goal was achieved....and that is, I got rid of the bootloader screen....the hard way....lol.

Bowen,

LOL....

Oh well, at least you learn more through the hard way. Glad to hear it's all ok now.

Shawn

I've got great news and fix for ALL registry cleaners. Of course you still need a reg cleaner with Vista x64 support, but that goes without saying....but still...those that are new to Vista x64 or computers in general, might miss that. Anyway...on to the fix. Forgive me when I state things that you already know how to do, but again...this is for those that are not familar with Vista x64 or just new to computers.

You need to edit the registry by going to the RUN command line in the Start menu and type in regedit. Then go to \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Wow6432Node

What you want to do is completely delete the second Wow6432Node key. It is the one that ends with Internet Explorer in it. After your done, it should now look like this: \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node. You just get rid of the second key and that's it!

Of course make sure you make a backup of the registry first...ALWAYS do this when you're editing the registry! I simply used System Restore, but you can always just export the registry itself to a USB key or a CD etc.

I tested it out and not only could I use TweakNow's RegCleaner Pro, but any that are certified for Vista x64 of course!

Bowen,

You genius! Wise Registry Cleaner works perfectly now.

I noticed that the sub keys did not contain any data at all on mine on the duplicate Wow6432Node Key. I wonder if it was a Windows Update or some other program that duplicated the Wow6432Node Key. ??? I know I sure didn't do it. (haha)

You should go to the tips tutorial section and post a New Tutorial on this. If you need help with the Turorial, I'll be happy to help you with it.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/

Thank You,
Shawn

As tempted as as I am to take the credit.....sigh...it wasn't me that figured it out. Here's the person who should take the credit and actually I'm not sure if he actually figured it out himself or got it from someone else as well. Anyway, here's the person and the post I created in another forum.

They guy's name is "bugfree" and here is the forum. Registry Cleaners Taking A Long Time Scanning Vista x64.... - TechNet Forums

Bowen,

Here's the link for the Tip post I created for everyone, thanks to you and bugfree. Take a look and see if you approve of it.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/73011-registry-cleaner-program-slow.html#post358018

Shawn

WOW! That's far more credit than I deserve Shawn! But you did put the link to give bugfree the credit too....nice! Yeah, the tip looks awesome! The screenshot you took is far more helpful than just seeing the fix. This isn't a hard fix by no means, but ya know when you're dealing with the registry, you don't want to mess around and you want to make absolutely certain that your doing the right thing! Your tool tip should even allow n00bs to be able to edit the registry. I'm glad you put that warning in there too....ya never know. Oh, more thing you might want to add and this is up to you. You know the export feature in the registry. You might want to tell them about that too. If you were to export the registry and then put it on a USB key or a CD/DVD something...that's just another form of backup to do and if something were really screwed up, they could just import that back into the registry to fix it. That is of course if they could even boot the computer. Actually now that I think about it, maybe you should just leave it off....too many options might confuse some people. The most important thing is to back it up via system restore! The only question left that comes to mind is why hasn't Microsoft fixed this and when? Do you happen to know where I can email MS for them to fix this?

This is OT, but I wonder if you could help me with one other problem in Vista x64? It's not a great big deal, but it bothers me. When I have two separate IE7 Browser windows open and try to open MSN Messenger Live or if I already have Messenger open and then open up two IE7 browser windows, I get a Werfault and Messenger closes. I also get an error with IE7 too sometimes and don't have anything to do with MSN Messenger.

Now, it's not a real big deal because I use Firefox most of the time and clearly, that's the correct call considering what IE7 is doing. I believe I looked in Event Viewer and I believe it said something about DEP (Data Execution Protection) being involved and I so I disabled DEP on IE7, but it had no effect in helping the problem. It wouldn't let me disable DEP on MSN Messenger though. I'd just like to know how to stop this.

I use IE7 once in a while when something might not work with Firefox....I'm sure you probably do the same thing even if you normally use IE, you probably use Firefox for others when something doesn't work, like a streaming video or whatnot. Let me know if you've got a work around for this....it's driving me crazy!

BOWEN,

Glad you like and approve of the tip. I am currently working with Wise on helping them on the x64 Vista platform by testing some updated program code they are sending me. When I ran it, it scanned just fine with both Wow6432Node key entries included in the registry. I would expect a updated verion to be released sometime soon on their web site.

For the OT: (haha)

I'm using Live Messenger Beta (Build 8.5.1238.0601) and have no problems with having more than one IE7 window at a time with Messenger open. With that said, it sounds more like a possible add-on to IE7 or Messenger that might be triggering the DEP stop error. Check those, but you can disable DEP completely to most likely resolve the problem. You can always turn it back on if it doesn't help.

Here's the link:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/65790-dep-data-execution-prevention.html

Scroll down to this section:

How to Enable/Disable DEP:
5. To Disable: (Optin/OptOut options above)

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Thanks and thanks for the links. Since it's not a big deal and since you're using a new MSN Messenger Live beta, I'll try that too. I don't think it's worth turning DEP completely off since I only use IE7 occasionally. Well it looks like registry companies are fixing the problem...that's great! So maybe this isn't a problem with Vista after all, but rather with the programs that aren't optimized for it then.