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Hi,

My registered Opus 4 Pro drives me mad: every other week or so, it refuses starting up. Suddenly it tells me, that my installation is corrupted, an all I can do is reinstall the package over the existing one on my harddisk. After that, I can continue my work for some weeks, before this problem occurs again.

Am I the only one with this problem here?

Best regards,
Gian-Reto.

Hi,

Thank you for your enquiry.

The error message you describe occurs if the Opus registry settings in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE area of the system registry are deleted or corrupted.

The most likely cause of this problem is using a 'Registry Cleaner' utility to clear out 'redundant' entries from the registry. These utilities often incorrectly identify the Opus registry settings (and those of many other applications) as redundant and delete these from the registry, effectively breaking the installation.

A number of major system maintenance tools (including Norton SystemWorks) also offer this type of registry clean, and this may be scheduled to run at regular intervals, periodically breaking the Opus installation in the way you describe.

I would therefore recommend uninstalling any registry cleaning utilities and temporarily disabling any scheduled system maintenance actions and see if this resolves the problem. If so, you could perhaps try reinstalling each utility and re-enabling each system maintenance action one-by-one to identify the culprit, although, to be honest, I would advise against using any registry cleaning tools as they offer a negligible increase in system performance compared to the potential damage they can cause.

I hope this helps. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any further queries.

Kind regards,

How often do you use the Windows' Accessories called ScanDisk and Defrag? If you don't or haven't in awhile, I'd suggest you get in the habit of using them several times each week. By default Defrag runs ScanDisk to make sure the hard drive is OK before it rebuilds the file locations.

I seriously doubt OPUS is causing your computer files to become corrupted. If it was, then the rest of us would also be having your same experiences. Since we aren't, then there must be other answers.

Tell us things like your: Operating System, Computer Speed, Computer Type (P3, P4, AMD, etc), RAM, Hard Drive(s), how much is already stored on your hard drive?

Hi,

Thank you both for your answers.
I do not defrag or scandisk on a regularly base (WinXP Home, SP2, Centrino 1.5 MHz, 1 GB RAM, 60 GB HD with about 40 GB free). But I actually have installed a windows tuner utility which does a registry clean-up once in a week. I have now deactivated this 'feature' and time will show if this was the problem. I'm very positive. I will tell results in this forum.

Thank you.
Best regards,
Gian-Reto.

I've been using Registry Mechanic (which automatically checks and repairs the registry at each machine boot) for some months now, with no impact on Opus.

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