| Runtime error 52 is just one of the errors that | | | | uninstalls will leave blanks spaces in the registry, |
| you can encounter while using Microsoft Windows. | | | | orphan data keys that don't belong and bad |
| This is down to the Visual Basics engine that | | | | registry command lines - combining together to |
| Windows utilises to run many programs and some | | | | choke the system and cause a host of problems, |
| programs like Microsoft Word or any other | | | | from runtime errors and active X crashes. Let's |
| multimedia application hinging on it to run optimally. | | | | not forget the damaging effects of Trojans, |
| Shortly after launching these programs, you might | | | | viruses and worms which when they enter the |
| get the message 'Runtime error 52: Bad file name | | | | system, infiltrate the registry and write damaging |
| or number' displayed in angry letters on your | | | | code within it. This is also the same when it |
| desktop. This is usually preceded with the | | | | comes to things like adware and malware, |
| program that you are trying to load crashing | | | | programs written specifically to damage critical |
| fatally and maybe, just maybe you will get the | | | | Windows components like the registry. |
| pleasure of your desktop freezing up and your | | | | Add to the fact that Windows cannot function |
| screen going black. | | | | normally without a relatively healthy registry, and |
| Another reason for this crash could be that the | | | | you can understand why it is so important for |
| program was trying to follow a command line in | | | | anyone to protect their registry either by keeping |
| the registry to load a system or driver file and | | | | a close watch on their daily PC activities or by |
| unable to find it. This is called a malformed data | | | | downloading a registry cleaner. A registry cleaner |
| pathway and this is usually found within the | | | | is a life saver, in a sense that it does everything |
| registry. Many of these runtime errors actually | | | | that is needed, cleaning all the bad and blank |
| are caused, 75% of the time, by problems in the | | | | codes that are rife within your systems brain. You |
| registry. You see, there are plenty of ways that | | | | must understand that antivirus and firewall |
| your registry can be damaged, with one of the | | | | programs are not enough; they can only do so |
| chief culprits being time. People who use | | | | much to protect your system. Once a virus or |
| computers over a long period of time do a lot of | | | | Trojan bypasses their defence (and it is more |
| program installs and uninstalls as well as installing | | | | than likely since more and newer viruses are |
| drivers and systems files for the whole host of | | | | written everyday), these programs are helpless |
| applications that they will be utilising. | | | | to stop them doing damage to your registry. Do |
| What happens within the registry is that every | | | | yourself a favour and when you come across |
| time this happens, a line of code is recorded within | | | | Runtime Error 52 - or any other sort of problems, |
| its matrix, which symbolises a sort of 'instructions' | | | | get a registry cleaner and save yourself a lot of |
| for Windows to follow. Over time, bad program | | | | time and heartache. |