"Bill in Co" wrote in
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I'd say if he's just going in to remove some spurious entries he doesn't
like seeing, and he's not all that familiar with regedit to begin with,
to skip it. It's not worth the potential risk, IMHO. Removing some
traces of leftover entries isn't a good reason to mess with the
registry, UNLESS it is causing issues, which it isn't. I know what can
happen when you don't know what you're doing in there. :-)


I just think he should check back, and post back. He obviously wanted advice,
and got some, but I don't have a clue if it helped or not. We all have a
fairly good idea of what he saw, but we could still be wrong. He's doing
better asking than not, anyway, even if he just asks himself and starts
trawling. Ignorance is fine, but willful ignorance causes more trouble than
anything short of panic and over-reaction (the main reason people advise
againmst going into the registry). He saw something that made him alarmed. I
still want to know if he managed to avoid over-reacting to it.

Judging by various reg cleaners I've seen, I'd rather trust my own judgement.
That's not because I think that judgement is especially good, it's because
reg-cleaners are almost always very bad.