I did a search on the N360 registry cleaner, but didn't find what I was looking for. I have the most recent version of N360, although this situation has existed for a long time in previous versions. I have a Creative Labs Sound Blaster Titanium X-Fi sound card on a Win 7 64 system. The Creative Labs installer installs software and related drivers, of course. Every time I run Registry Cleanup, it causes the sound card to stop working and it is no longer recognized by the Creative software. It issues an error message saying it can find no devices. In order to recover from this, I have to uninstall the sound card in the Control Panel Device Manager, then do a reboot. When the system comes up again, it recognizes the sound card and reinstalls all the drivers. This, of course, is a pretty time-consuming effort.
After this happened the first time, I thought there was a problem with the hardware. There are 2 hardware components. The sound card itself is in a PCI-E slot and a 5.25" “drive” that connects to the sound card is installed in the front of the PC. It has connections for headphones, a microphone, and an external device L/R input. I did some checking and couldn't determine if the hardware was at fault, but guessed that the registry entries for the drivers were corrupted. I went through the procedure mentioned above and everything was fine. Once I got it working again, I didn’t think much about it until the next time I ran Registry Cleanup. When I ran it, I was hoping everything would be fine with the sound card, but the registry entries were corrupted once again.
I’m 100% certain that the Registry Cleanup is responsible for this problem, as it only happens after running it. Has anyone else seen this issue and have you developed some kind of work around? Creative Labs sound cards are pretty common, so I can’t be the only one this is happening to. Perhaps it’s specific to the model of the sound card and that it has the 5.25” drive, so that could be a factor.