Easy Cleaner warning

[Briab Guy]

I just read the PCMeck news letter, and in it was a advertise for Easy Cleaner(reg cleaner). Now this may have been fixed, but, a yr ago when using easy cleaner, it screwed up "Help and Support" on win XP pro. There was a fix for it.
Maybe someone knows more then I remember, or if need be, I could look it up.
B
ehh, I went and looked:

Help and Support

Repairs Windows® XP Help and Support after running Easy Cleaner

Note: If you have used Easy Cleaner, there is a workaround that prevents Help and Support from becoming corrupt: In the options, add Help to the Skip List. http://www.toniarts.com/faq.htm

Start Menu/Help and Support doesn't work: Go to Start/Run and type in: helpctr -regserver

To reinstall Help and Support: Go to C:\Windows\inf\pchealth.inf. Right click and choose install. Have your CD handy.

Note: The folder is hidden by default. Go to Start/Run and type in: control folders. View: Show hidden files and folders and uncheck Hide extensions for known file types.

[Redo40]

Good info to know Briab Guy.

[Kubie]

Briab Guy,

Thanks for the info. I use Easy Cleaner quite often with W2K and may be installing XP Pro on one of my other machines. Nice to know I could have problems without the fix.

Carl

[RayH]

The following is the .vbs patch for Easy Cleaner should you goof it with Windows XP. It works. I copied the file directly from the patch I downloaded somewhere once upon a time and had to use it.

Copy and paste the entire file to Notepad. Save it with .vbs extension. When you open it, it will automatically execute the necessary reg edit.

Copy from 'fixwinxphelp.vbs through (jobfunc, 4096, t) Keep spacing. I had to use this patch on a fresh XP Pro install, not an upgrade. That is my experience. If you want the original patch, search for Doug Knox.

Good Luck,

RayH

'fixwinxphelp.vbs - Repairs the damage done by Toni Arts EasyCleaner
'© Doug Knox - Modified 2-28-02 to account for XP over 2000 upgrades
'This code may be freely distributed/modified
'Based on information provided by Bill James (http://www.billsway.com)

On Error Resume Next

'Declare variables
Dim WSHShell, MyBox, p, p1, p2, p3, p4, q1, q2, q3, q4, t
Dim jobfunc

'Set the Windows Script Host Shell and assign values to variables
Set WSHShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

p1 = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\TypeLib\{FC7D9E00-3F9E-11D3-93C0-00C04F72DAF7}\1.0\0\win32\"
p2 = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\TypeLib\{FC7D9E00-3F9E-11D3-93C0-00C04F72DAF7}\1.0\HELPDIR\"
p3 = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\TypeLib\{FC7D9000-3F9E-11D3-93C0-00C04F72DAF7}\1.0\0\win32\"
p4 = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\TypeLib\{FC7D9000-3F9E-11D3-93C0-00C04F72DAF7}\1.0\HELPDIR\"

Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set q = fso.GetSpecialFolder(0)

q1 = q & "\PCHealth\HelpCtr\Binaries\HelpCtr.exe\1"
q2 = q & "\PCHealth\HelpCtr\Binaries\HelpCtr.exe\"
q3 = q & "\PCHealth\HelpCtr\Binaries\HelpCtr.exe\2"
q4 = q & "\PCHealth\HelpCtr\Binaries\HelpCtr.exe\"

'Describe the funtion of the script for a dialog box

jobfunc = "This VB Script has repaired the damage done"
jobfunc = jobfunc & vbCR & "when you ran EasyCleaner on your Windows® XP"
jobfunc = jobfunc & vbCR & "installation, by restoring the correct Registry"
jobfunc = jobfunc & vbCR & "values for Help and Support."

'This section writes the correct values to the Registry

WSHShell.RegWrite p1, q1
WSHShell.RegWrite p2, q2
WSHShell.RegWrite p3, q3
WSHShell.RegWrite p4, q4

t = "Confirmation"
MyBox = MsgBox (jobfunc, 4096, t)