[hewee]

Ok ran and clean up all the green and now only have 213 red ones.

Was more easy because I could hold down the shift key and the use the up or down page key to go tru the list. Then the ctrl key for getting one here and there that was green. But then I had to use just the crtl key do do the rest but I could hold dowb the mouse and scroll tru the rest also. Not so bad doing it this.

[brindle]

hewee
when I said export I meant from the registry it's self not inside regseeker.
although I don't make a back up before using regseeker. All the items you mentioned I delete.
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I have tried before to find information on the export feature inside regseeker and didn't find anything that made this action very clear to me. What I think it does is after running regseeker the entries that are available have been temporary removed from the registry and waiting to be deleted or exported back to the registry. What happens to the entries found during a scan if you don't take any action and just close out the program? Do they go back into the registry,then why have an export option if what isn't selected end up back in the registry? So you see this is not clear to me.
If you or anyone else has a good understanding of the export feature in regseeker I'd sure like to hear your explanation.

[hewee]

I am going to delete everything.

I have the backup in regseeker that I made tru regseeker so all should be ok and I only have a backup on only the things that wee deleted that way.
Going to do the red ones later and reboot.

I hope norton windoctor comes up clean too. If so I will be happy.

[brindle]

Get back to us and let us know how it went, okay....I know you will, nuf said.

[aarhus2004]

brindle and hewee,

I know you will each find your own way of using RegSeeker. You will, rightly, think me foolish if I tell where I am at with it after many months of using it at least once a day.

However I will tell you.

Whatever it offers for deletion, I delete. I also delete the backups immediately.

If the items offered are not deleted, and RegSeeker is closed, no change occurs in the Registry.

I make no color distinctions. I treat the reds and greens equally.

I have never had a problem with my computer which was obviously related to Reg Seeker.

My exclude list contains - well check the GIF below.

The Lexmark items just recreate themselves if deleted - so I choose to exclude them.

This applies to the Lake items and the Nullsoft one.

The VARLDID trio I learned some time ago are one of the items I can delete but if I do I shall lose the ability to reinstate some of the components I do not use in Windows Components. I would have to use my WinMe disk to reinstate them. I learned this by deleting , in jv16pt, all the VARLDID group and so learned that both jv16pt and RegSeeker were, in respect of these registry entries, both right and wrong.

The whole group is 'giffed' below. It is from a backup I keep in case I forget.

So there you are.

Best wishes.

[hewee]

OK I deleted 213 in the red. Rebooted and ran norton windoctor. It had 45 in invadlid registry keys and the fix for all of them was to delete them. So I did.
Ran RegSeeker again and had 45 in the red and cleaned it. Plus norton is clean and happy.

So all is clean and all seems to be working ok.

I thank all of you for you help on something I was always scared to do in the pass. I will run clean sweep later to see if all the things I knew or was thinking should not be showing are gone that were marked in yellow and had warnings because clean sweep wants you to delete the safe green ones. The yellow ones you could delete but it was hard picking and many I knew were good so I never touched any of them.

So thanks again to all of you for the help. It is not so hard once you know a little and keep the fear away.

[brindle]

Your very welcome hewee
yep facing your fear usually concurs fear....
Glad you got those 101 pages cleaned up

[hewee]

Thanks brindle.

Yep fear is not good. But I got to say I love the RegSeeker program. It does the scan nice and fast and it is not giving you a ton of things that you have to go tru to pick out what you need to keep.
Plus look at all the time I save on posting 101 page image here for you all to look at that would take many post just to show it all.

[hewee]

aarhus2004,

I looked at the exclude list and Lexmark is on the list. Guess they fixed things.

[brindle]

You need more posts, maybe posting all 101 pages would of helped your numbers.

[hewee]

He hee that would get me closer to 30,000 post here.

[Bold_Fortune]

This is a very interesting thread on RegSeeker. I used this registry cleaner some time ago. I wasn't really all that impressed with it at that time. But it sounds like it must have been updated since and working fine now. I'll try it.

Something really interesting. A couple of years ago, I downloaded a free trial version of "RegHealer". I ended up buying it because it did something that I haven't found any other registry cleaner could do...it found Empty Registry Strings...over 1,000 of them. (The trial version lets you delete about 20 of these strings at a time, if I recall right, but the puchased version let's you delete them all at once.)

I found that maybe 150 or so Empty Registry Strings will re-create themselves at later times.

The only problem I ever encountered deleting these Empty Registry Keys was that it deleted about 7 or so of them that belonged to WMP...or maybe a codec or something...because there is a particular type of video I have that wouldn't play again until I re-installed WMP9 Codec Pack.

But the I got wise, and one time after re-installing WMP9 Codec Pack to play that particular video of mine, I set RegHealer to ignore the pertinent Empty Registry Strings.

Anyway, it's a fun thing to look at with the trial version. Here's a Google search for some download sites...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...Healer&spell=1

Thanks again for the tip on RegSeeker.

[GoJoAGoGo]

Originally Posted by aarhus2004

Hello,

RegSeeker is a major contributor of excellence in terms of Registry maintenance and cleaning. After using it for two years I have concluded it has to be up there with the very best in a packed field of freeware which offer the same/similar operation.

I now use it with impunity and I have never had to use it's backups facility.

It offers a comprehensive History cleanup tool and much more besides. Interestingly, in view of another thread of mine here (Speed Up your Start Menu), in a selection of 'Tweaks' that is one tweak on offer.

Its GUI is beautifully clean-cut and it is simple to use. Download it here:

http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm

Here are a couple of images.

Ben:

I also noticed you have in the tweaks tool "Clear Recent Docs on exit" checked. I tried this and it was deleting my IE URL's in my browser toolbar so I have unchecked this one.

[hewee]

I found out later that I guess I deleted one thing to many but it was a very easy fix. I went and seen the windows default on a wave file that should of been jetaudeo so I just had to change it so the wave opened in the program again.
But other wise all is well still.

Other forums it seems that the best is Registry Mechanic. But it is not free.

http://www.winguides.com/regmech/


Site has a great Registry Guide for Windows too.

http://www.winguides.com/registry/

[GoJoAGoGo]

hewee:

Glad to hear all is running well after you cleaned house in the registry.