USER.DAT -- How do you clean up / edit this file

Noel:

MajorGeeks has a free download of Toni's Easy Cleaner available. To top it
off, I already have it installed on my machine, which I found out when
trying to download the program. This goes to show you the limitations of the
memory.
My apologies to Jack.

Harry.


"Noel Paton" wrote in message
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Toni has moved - he's now at
http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane.htm

He had legal complications on his previous host - I believe that the
version
they offer is not current.
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"webster72n" wrote in message
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Jack:

I just came from Toni's website and in order to download anything you
have
to be a paid member.
I didn't hang around to find out what the membership fee is,
but the Easy Cleaner definitely is not free, unless there is a way
around
it.
Sorry about that.

Harry.


"Jack E Martinelli" wrote in message
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This might be a good instance for using the Toni Arts Easy Cleaner
registry
cleaner. It is still freeware, although a subscription is requested.
Easy Cleaner is less formidable for the casual user than the jv16 Power
Tools cleaner, another very useful tool .
I have successfully used both for many years, under WinME.


http://www.toniarts.com/index.php?PH...fb0b572171d218

Careful perusal of the recommended objects for removal will quickly
reveal
the undesirable "foul language" items, assuming they do not run to the
the
many thousands.
And a scanreg backup and System Restore checkpoint make reverting, if
necessary, very simple, in the event of an inadvertent mistake.
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"Mike M" wrote in message
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Rick T wrote:

Reinstalling Windows is the surest way to keep unexpected things
from
cropping up.

I agree as one has no idea as to what else might be hiding on the
system.
In this case it means formatting the hard disk and starting over as
reinstalling Win Me over itself does not clear the HKCU hive in the
registry.
--
Mike

Perhaps eraser will help - it can be used to clean unused disk space
and also removes all the directory entries of all files which have
been deleted. Perhaps these entries are the problem. When I run
"Restoration" no files are found.