README.TXT for
RegClean 4.1 (build 97.71)                         March 12, 1997

HOW TO INSTALL
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Copy RegClean.EXE to any folder on your machine.

HOW TO RUN
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Double click on the RegClean icon.

RegClean will start by displaying a progress dialog. While this
is shown, it will load a copy of the parts of the registry that
it is going to check, and perform the actual scanning. Depending
on how much information is in the registry and the speed of your
CPU, this will take anywhere from about 2 to 30 minutes.

If you have many entries in your registry, there may be times
that RegClean appears to have stopped working. In fact, RegClean
may appear completely halted whenever it is checking remote or
removable drives.

Once these progress meters are gone, you will be prompted for the
next action. You can do two things at this point.

Thing 1 - Exit RegClean.
     
     Well, that’s kind of pointless, but you can do it. Just
     press the Cancel button.

Thing 2 - Allow RegClean to fix errors that it found.
     
     This will create an UNDO.REG file in the folder where
     RegClean was run from. The file will be titled "Undo
     computer yyyymmdd hhmmss.REG", where computer is the name of
     your machine, and yyyymmdd is the date and hhmmss is the
     time.
     
     After the file is saved, Regclean will remove these entries
     from the registry. You will see a progress meter while it
     does this. Sometimes, the progress meter may stop
     momentarily, but it should resume after a few seconds. When
     the meter is gone, RegClean is done. Press Exit to end
     RegClean.

KNOWN ISSUES
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·    There is no specific control over the level of checking or
  the individual items to be corrected.

·    The report is not easy to access (you may not even be able
  to figure out how to get to it).

·    The dialog box loses active window status several times.

·    It's hard to tell when it completes the scan stage and is
  readyto save the changes.

·    There are cases where RegClean will have an invalid page
  fault, or attempt to access memory that cannot be "read". These
  messages are commonly called "GPFs" or “Access Violations”.
  Microsoft is currently researching these issues. The messages,
  while preventing RegClean from working, should not harm your
  computer or the software on it in any way. Please email a report
  on these messages to
     
     regclean@microsoft.com.

Thanks for using RegClean! We hope you find this utility useful.

 - The RegClean Team

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