Software that Saved My Day With Windows XP Pro
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
I can’t understand why Microsoft has released so many patches for XP for the past 4 years, yet the operating sytem still continues to have crashes and meltdowns. I was working with a few Word documents, opened up Excel, and then browsed to a couple websites. I was happily getting work done for my clients when I noticed the system was starting to crawl a bit. I closed a couple Word documents, opened up a few more tabs on my Internet Explorer, then checked my web design work in Firefox, and before long, my system was just about to choke, and all my applications were frozen.
I have Norton Internet Protection suite running, and at least that didn’t freeze, as I was able to see if there had been a hack attempt - there was nothing. I opened up my process mananger and started shutting down unneeded processes - whatever I could shut down, I did. My applications were still frozen.
Finally, I had had enough. I had heard from friends that out of all the patches and rewrites Microsoft releases, it will never rewrite how it handles the registry. The registry just seems to be too complicated or too dangerous for them to attempt to fix with some utility they would release. Its like they created this monster robot, but its so out of control, thrashing about, whipping its tail, that they’d rather have an outside company handle its bad behaviour, while they continue developing it! Without the registry working right, and optimized, a computer you bought 3 months ago will start running like its 30 years old!
Thankfully, there’s a utility called XP Repair Pro (www.xprepairpro.com) which will eradicate any bad registry entries and tame that beast. I couldn’t believe how simple this program was to use - very intuitive. It also works for Windows Vista, which I was happy about, because I plan to upgrade, next month. Anyway, the program took about 15 minutes to run and reported all kinds of errors which it fixed. I then rebooted the system, and it finally runs like new again, as it should - its only 3 months old! Granted, I use this computer constantly, about 18-20 hours a day. I’m really putting it through its paces, and I need it to be performing efficiently at all times - I can’t afford any down time with it.
XP Repair Pro really came through for me,today, and at $39.95, and I get paid about $75 per hour, and I had to slow down my work and reboot 3 times this morning, wasting about 2 hours of time reloading my programs and getting back to where I started…. you do the math. Even if my system DOES start acting funny again, XP Repair Pro has the problem completely fixed in less than a half hour, and therefore save me $112.50 of my valuable time trying to reboot and fix it! I also didn’t have to run the system down to Geek Squad to do the same thing!
Check out XP Repair Pro here - you’ll love it: XP Repair Pro