| Before you go ahead and download a registry | | | | 99B42120-6EC7-11CF-A6C7-00AA00A47DD2. |
| cleaner understand why it is necessary. As a | | | | |
| web page loads on your system, you may be | | | | So How Does CLASSID work |
| prompted to install several ActiveX | | | | |
| components before the page can be fully | | | | 'CLASSID' is a unique registry-identifying |
| downloaded. This is so that the browser can | | | | component that is used to identify an ActiveX |
| interpret the ActiveX components and display | | | | control. The actual download process consists |
| them properly on the system. This only would | | | | of six different steps. First, Internet |
| only occur if the controls used in the web | | | | Explorer will process the 'OBJECT' tag in the |
| page were not already on the system. If you | | | | browser code and get your requirements from |
| decline permission for the installation, the | | | | it. Then Internet Explorer will determine if |
| page will not function properly. However, | | | | checking different things needs a download. |
| once these ActiveX controls are on your | | | | Then Internet Explorer will process the 'CAB' |
| system, you won't have to download them | | | | file and the 'INF' file. Then the control and |
| again, even when you come across them on | | | | its dependencies will be installed. Finally, |
| other web sites. These download clutter up | | | | the control will show up on the screen. |
| the registry over time and need to be removed | | | | |
| with the help of some registry shareware | | | | The Registry is the centre of all records for |
| cleaner. | | | | the system. The registry records all the |
| | | | activities such as the users and the hardware |
| Other ID Tags | | | | details of the system. It also records where |
| | | | what program or file is located on the disk. |
| So how can the web page determine that the | | | | This is why the registry gets filled up with |
| required ActiveX controls are not installed | | | | redundant entries over time and as it gets |
| on the system or not? The browser does this | | | | older it keeps building up and slowing down |
| by referring to the 'CLASSID' in the 'OBJECT' | | | | the system. Registry Repair and Cleaners are |
| tag of the web page. To cut a long | | | | ideal for such times when your computer has |
| explanation short, an ActiveX control is | | | | grown sluggish and irritatingly slow. PC |
| added to a web page using the and container | | | | registry cleaners can greatly enhance the |
| tags. The 'CLASSID' is unique to each ActiveX | | | | speed and performance of your system. |
| component; it is with the 'CLASSID' that you | | | | |
| specify which control you are using. The | | | | It is all code language and you need not |
| Registry has a special section for CLASSID | | | | understand the technicalities of it. Suffice |
| and they run into thousands of ID's. The | | | | it to know that if the browser determines, |
| useless records in the Registry have to be | | | | through the 'CLASSID' on your browser that |
| removes with the aid of a registry cleaner. | | | | your system already has that 'CLASSID' in the |
| Free PC registry cleaners are available for | | | | registry the browser will load and display |
| download and help keep the system running | | | | the page, else it will prompt you to download |
| smoothly. If you were to look at a CLASSID | | | | that particular control. |
| it would look something like this: Class ID: | | | | |