The last one, Other Program Settings. 3rd-party’s registry keys and values are saved in other program settings. If there were program errors in 3rd-party programs, you can clean and repair registry in other program settings to solve the registry issues.

These are the full introduction to Windows registry hives. If you are facing registry problems in using Windows, you can use AthTek Registry Cleaner to clean, repair and optimize registry safely and effortlessly. After reading this article, you would be able to get 20% price off for AthTek Registry Cleaner.

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The ever used files will be saved in Most Recently Used Files. If you don’t need to reuse them in the list, you can delete them in registry.

Shared DLL’s Sections are used for storing registry keys and values of DLL files on your computer. Sometimes the registry keys and values are still there, but the applications have been already deleted. We call these registry entries as “useless registry entries”.

Uninstall Entries are used for storing uninstalled applications’ info. Uninstall entries could be removed if you don’t want to check the uninstallation log for troubleshooting.

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Font Entries are used for font reference on Windows. It won’t have registry errors unless you have installed too many 3rd-party fonts to your computer.

Help Section is used for storing registry keys and values of Windows help file.

File Associations are used for storing registry keys and values of applications reference. Invalid File Associations are definitely registry errors which should be removed.

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 COM (Component Object Model) is Microsoft’s component software architecture developed primarily for Windows. It is the foundation upon which OLE and ActiveX are based, and provides a means to re-use code without requiring re-compilation. In COM, a component is a platform-specific binary file that compliant applications and other components can utilize. Programs incorporating a component’s services never have access to its internal data structure, but instead include pointers to its standardized interface. Thus, it is possible for components to interact with each other regardless of how they work or what language they are written in. ActiveX, OLE/COM produces many registry problems on Windows system.

Application Paths are used for storing keys and values of Windows applications. If some application ceases to work on your Windows, you can clean and optimize this registry hive to fix the application problem.

Empty Registry keys are when a program of software has made a ‘folder’ and either never filled it with contents or has been uninstalled and the ‘folder’ remains but has no contents. They are harmless. Just take up a little space. It might also slow down certain processes if there are too many empty and useless keys. No matter what registry cleanup tool you are using, empty registry keys will certainly be removed in registry cleaning.

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