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Title: What are "Wildcards?"
Post by: Vee-Max on December 13, 2012, 06:58:07 pm

Hi
My first post so please bear with me.
I have recently run the Windows Repair [All In One] utility through each of its stages. When I checked the Log it appears a number of entries were skipped as they contain a "wildcard".
Is this good that so many entries have been skipped from the repair process? Also what are these wildcards? Where do they come from and are they harmfull {ie Malware etc]
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thank you in advance to anyone who can help with an explanation.
Vee-Max

Title: Re: What are "Wildcards?"
Post by: Shane on December 14, 2012, 09:53:31 am

That is just something the tool I use from Microsoft does. A wildcard is a normal thing in a computer which is a *

So lets say I am doing a search on the computer for a file and I want to find all files with the word work in it I would do a search like this *work*.*

This would give me results like
CurrentWork.doc
Work123.xml

and so on. That is the use of a wildcard. In other words it can count for anything. So the reg repair tool skips those wildcards in the registry. Those are normal errors so no need to worry :-)

Shane

Title: Re: What are "Wildcards?"
Post by: Vee-Max on December 14, 2012, 01:06:37 pm

Hi Shane
I appreciate your time to provide suxh an informative reply. Thank you for that and also for the Windows Repair [All In One ] tool.
Regards
Vee-Max  :smiley: