Reimage Review – Computer Repair And Maintenance Made Easy
For anybody trying to complete home PC repairs then the logical way to approach this work is to (i) attempt the work yourself (ii) use PC maintenance software and (iii) send the PC off for repairs with a specialist. This Reimage review is concerned with the second approach to automate computer repair and maintenance work using software.
Early in 2008 I had started experiencing a blue screen exception in Windows XP on my laptop relating to a corrupt registry (the exception code was 0xc0000218). Several forums recommended Reimage for repairing registry files so I gave it a try.
Reimage is a web service that runs over the internet (from within your browser). The application initially runs a free scan to evaluate the nature of damage to your registry and/or files. This is intended to pick up virus damage, registry faults and file problems (missing/faulty/out-of-date).
For my laptop the scan results showed faulty keys due to uninstalled applications which is something a manual check would not have picked up. Reimage can then proceed to effect registry repairs based on key settings for healthy configurations (it needs web access to do this in order to query their database). Likewise faults in the OS/application files (including DLLs, device drivers, etc) need to query their inventory of 25 million files to download & install the latest working versions.
The blue screen exception I had seen stopped occurring after the repair and system reboot completed. As a less extreme case I also let Reimage scan a working desktop PC and that picked up many device drivers being out of date. The resulting repairs resulted in web access being noticeably faster. The documentation puts this down to a combination of driver updates and optimizing the registry settings.
For anyone working from home the approach should still be to attempt repairs for yourself, but, if this fails then the fall back position should be to resort to using PC maintenance software to at least scan and analyze the root cause of system problems. Reimage has worked well now on 3 PCs belonging to myself and has become the go-to tools for tricky PC repairs.
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