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Registry clean utility
I found that my Registry contains many entries related to various old
programs that are not present anymore in my PC. So I want to clean this old registry entries a little. However the best practice is to do this manually. But important thing is that all this need be done extremelly accurately and exactly. Also, some programs may leave their keys in more than one registry folder, so its not so easy to find it all. I just need advice for some good utility which will make finding of old registry entries more easy, and that will not to remove registry keys in automatic mode, i.e. only user will to decide to remove specific key or not. thanks. |
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"mistral" wrote in message
... I just need advice for some good utility which will make finding of old registry entries more easy, and that will not to remove registry keys in automatic mode, i.e. only user will to decide to remove specific key or not. I have used since 1999 the Registry Cleaner that is part of Fix It Utilities (sold by www.vcom.com), now version 6. It is as good as PCClean (Central Point PC Tools, used for the decade earlier.) No delete setting is enforced. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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Registry clean utility
"mistral" wrote:
I found that my Registry contains many entries related to various old programs that are not present anymore in my PC. So I want to clean this old registry entries a little. However the best practice is to do this manually. But important thing is that all this need be done extremelly accurately and exactly. Also, some programs may leave their keys in more than one registry folder, so its not so easy to find it all. I just need advice for some good utility which will make finding of old registry entries more easy, and that will not to remove registry keys in automatic mode, i.e. only user will to decide to remove specific key or not. I like RegSeeker (free) from http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm Good luck Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP (1997 - 2006) On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never been in bed with a mosquito." |
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Registry clean utility
PCMag's "Registry Detective" (take "RegEdit+ too) is better than a naked
RegEdit search, because it will only find an item once, if there is a "mirror" elsewhere. Also, it will find items in binary fields, which RegEdit does not. Finally, it finds ALL matches in 10 seconds & puts them ALL to the screen. There is a Details button for further examination of the Key. The search criteria can be adjusted and narrowed in various ways. There is a button to click that will get one into RegEdit+ (or RegEdit) open to that Key. I only wish there were an easy way to copy/post the Keys that were found in the search. "RegEdit+" provides a configurable "Favorites" menu of Registry key locations, undo for Registry changes, and an Address Bar into which one may drop a Registry address. The docs are a Registry tutorial in itself. http://www.pcmag.com/ Has many, many great utilities: BHOCop, COA2, ContextEdit, Crackup, DiskAction, EndItAll2, Folders, HDValet, InCtrl5, ListZapper, RegDetective, RegEdit+, StartupCop, WinTidy, etc. Now, suddenly, there is a subscription fee at PCMag, but, it's worth it, especially if you can get the whole bundle that is there. ..........Start.................. Yearly billing $19.97 Yearly billing (For PC Magazine subscribers) $14.97 Monthly billing (limit 3 downloads/month) $4.97 ..........End................... You may try Google, but do you really want to download from any odd site? http://www.google.com/ -- Thanks or Good Luck, There may be humor in this post, and, Naturally, you will not sue, should things get worse after this, PCR "mistral" wrote in message ... | I found that my Registry contains many entries related to various old | programs that are not present anymore in my PC. | So I want to clean this old registry entries a little. However the best | practice is to do this manually. But important thing is that all this need | be done extremelly accurately and exactly. Also, some programs may leave | their keys in more than one registry folder, so its not so easy to find it | all. I just need advice for some good utility which will make finding of | old registry entries more easy, and that will not to remove registry keys in | automatic mode, i.e. only user will to decide to remove specific key or not. | | thanks. | | |
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I like RegSeeker (free) from http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm Good luck Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada Hi Ron.... Nice looking lil' ute, but is there a help file other than the readme?(not much there) I downloaded a Poker program about 10 months ago so that I could watch a buddy play online; I soon realised it was also malaware and it dumped a file called 'services' which was hijacking my comp'. I deleted it via Add/Rem then cleaned up remnant folder and files via explorer...... its not causing any problems now. Using RegSeeker just now, I typed in 'Poker' and found 26 entries, 5 in Hkey Current User & 21 in Hkey Local Machine. On the page showing the above entries are only 3 options; Select all, Unselect all, & Invert selection....... no tool for removal or deletion.? The only other area that I can see for removing/deleting is to actually use the 'Clean the Registry' button of which is quite frankly 'scarey' with the warnings galore. It doesnt allow me to select just the Poker entries, or at least, I cant see where it may. Can you help/point me in the correct direction for using this proggy plz. Thanks. Gekko |
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Can you help/point me in the correct direction for using this proggy plz.
Thanks. Gekko Here are typical entries from each catagorey in my reg that has Poker. 1)Hkey_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\ShellNoRoam \MUICache\E:\AbPoker\Absol utePoder\mainclient.exe 2)Hkey_Local_Machine\Software\Innoco\Casino\absolu te\common\INSTALINFO\E:\An Poker\AbsolutePoker there are 5 current user & 21 local machine. They have been there for nearly a year, with no problems, but I thought it would be a good hands-on for my first registry removal activity as it seems like a relatively safe procedure seeing as how it all relates to the Poker App that has already been removed. (personally, I would rather do it manually, without the aid of any third party stuff, but I'm still a little timid in the registry....... unless someone wants to talk me through it with side comments of each step and why.) Gekko |
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This sounds like a good utility, I'd like to get it. However, when I d/l
the file RegSeeker.zip and open it with WinZip I get the error message "not a valid archive." When I Google Regseeker For alternate sites I keep getting redirected to Hoverdesk. Any suggestions? Thanks, Dan "Gekko" wrote in message ... I like RegSeeker (free) from http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm Good luck Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada Hi Ron.... Nice looking lil' ute, but is there a help file other than the readme?(not much there) I downloaded a Poker program about 10 months ago so that I could watch a buddy play online; I soon realised it was also malaware and it dumped a file called 'services' which was hijacking my comp'. I deleted it via Add/Rem then cleaned up remnant folder and files via explorer...... its not causing any problems now. Using RegSeeker just now, I typed in 'Poker' and found 26 entries, 5 in Hkey Current User & 21 in Hkey Local Machine. On the page showing the above entries are only 3 options; Select all, Unselect all, & Invert selection....... no tool for removal or deletion.? The only other area that I can see for removing/deleting is to actually use the 'Clean the Registry' button of which is quite frankly 'scarey' with the warnings galore. It doesnt allow me to select just the Poker entries, or at least, I cant see where it may. Can you help/point me in the correct direction for using this proggy plz. Thanks. Gekko |
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