[hewee]

Me too gojo.

[aarhus2004]

Joe,hello,

"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"

I am 'cleanup all in a dull moment' type. <vbg>

[mach9]

Bold Fortune:
I have and use daily RegHealer for my "My computer scares me" mood. Its so safe. But RegSeeker lets you participate and see alot of whats happening. Some good measure of control-i.e. just don't do anything.

Hewee:
I'm neither as brave nor as knowledgeable as you. So I delete all the greens and some of the reds. But no wrong deletions so far and the registry is relatively clean. I have scads of Pocket PC apps., which do sometimes complicate the issue of what to delete and what not too. TDS-3 for instance sees all my installers as trojans, which I guess they literally are. So, until the day I'm a computer whiz (next life, I think), I'll leave a bit of a mess instead of being clean with a dead computer.

[hewee]

mach I don't know that much or as much as some think I do.

But I deleted all the green and then deleted all the red. I then went to the backup folder and made a green and red folder and put the green backup in the green folder and the red backup in the red folder. Now they will not show in RegSeeker being in the sub folder but I know what back up was what now and can always move it back. Really you can just click the file and restore things without the program too.
But who knows how much better things are now after the cleaning or how much more better it would be if I had been using it from the start and using it all the time.

I better make a all new norton rescue disk now too.

[mach9]

Hewee:
Thanks for the information. Now, I'll just go and try to figure out how to implement what you said. Actually I set RegSeeker to make backups of all deletions, so I'll hunt that file down to reassure myself. RegHealer says I only have 32 invalid entries. RegSeeker says more, but alot are not removable-the Microsoft ones and the IBM one's won't delete, despite being green. No matter. Its relatively clean, and no viri,worms, trojans (except PocketPC games,the installers of which are dubbed, incorrectly, as trojans). Mostly clean and secure will have to do.

[hewee]

Your welcome mach. You could also make sub folders like I did and even have a sub folder to them for each type of thing that was fixed like " Red/32 invalid entries ".
I was able to delete all of mine but I use 98SE so maybe if you have another OS.
What are the ones that you can't delete?

I just ran mine again and have 25 of them. I just added two to the Exclusion list that have to do with the flash killer bat file I have. If it is disable then it comes up on the list. Did the same with spybot and windoctor.

Anyhow I got 6 green I know I can delete because they are user ones for files I moved or deleted.
Then I got 19 more red for "extension not used". I think these seen to get remade if I cleaned them up. But I just now cleaned them again so will find out.
So if you got any that you know are ok and don't want to delete just right click on it and add it to the Exclusion and it will not show up in the scans.

[mach9]

Thanks Hewee:
Yes I think I'll make several folders for the subtypes. In the green I have 36 IBM files associated with support.com, they say file or path does not exist. Don't know the problem as I can easily access that support folder. Its right where it always was, and I use parts of it. Well, I'd rather leave that group alone. In the red category, I have 70 "Invalid Active X/COM" entries. Afraid to delete those. Brindle does delete them. I assume you did also, since you cleaned out 900 entries!!! (You must have the finest registry in the land). The Microsoft Green ones I tried deleting, they came back. Will have to look into those more closely. In the red there are 46 "Unused 'Openwith' entries". I've not deleted those as I don't know if I'll someday need to use them. Anyway, cleaned up a bunch of stuff, and found some registry entries from old start-up menu that belonged to long gone apps. Delighted to clean them out. My reluctance to rid my computer of all the finds is based on not being sure I could recover if something wrong is deleted. At my state of knowledge I think that is a valid fear. Thanks for your help. OS is XP Pro.

[hewee]

mach,
I got files like that too that said "file or path does not exist". Had lots of red "Invalid Active X/COM" entries and I cleaned them. Zone Alarm and WinDoctor cleans "Invalid Active X/COM" entries also but I guess it does not find all of them. Yes lot of the green ones will come back because many are user ones. I am going to have to work on it so I know what green ones to keep because a lot of them are the recent list in program and I don't need to clean it. Like using run, find and other programs.

I know lots of the red one I have deleted keep coming back and they say "extension not used". I think they come back after a boot up.

[mach9]

Thanks for the response, Hewee. I really like this app. Little by little I'll whittle away at the registry clutter. So far have removed over 100 things with no ill effects. Fingers crossed.

[Bold_Fortune]

Yeah, RegSeeker is pretty cool. It found about 40 items my other two registry cleaners didn't. (Although, my others did find a few entries RegSeeker did not...but not many.)

I even gave Registry Mechanic a shot at it. I did find 5 obsolete start menu items all the others didn't.

But then, I called in my heavy hitter.

After cleaning out everything I could with all four registry cleaners, RegSeeker, RegHealer, RegSupreme and Registry Mechanic, I brought out my old version of Ontrack's (now Vcom) Registry Fixer. It found an additional 725 entries.

But you have to keep in mind, I do delete a lot of things from my system that most of you probably don't.

[hewee]

Your welcome mach.
Guess we will both learn a lot after doing all this. Then we can learn what to add to the exclude list as time goes on. So when we scan we know everything can be deleted and it will not effect things like your recent list or what ever like the flash killer .bat I have. I added the flash.bat to the exclude list so I don't see it and delete it because I know that is ok and it was only showing up when I disable the flash because it changes the flash plugin name only so I don't want to delete it by mistake.

[aarhus2004]

Originally Posted by Bold_Fortune

But then, I called in my heavy hitter.

After cleaning out everything I could with all four registry cleaners, RegSeeker, RegHealer, RegSupreme and Registry Mechanic, I brought out my old version of Ontrack's (now Vcom) Registry Fixer. It found an additional 725 entries.

But you have to keep in mind, I do delete a lot of things from my system that most of you probably don't.

Hello Bold_Fortune,

Well I, for one, am interested in "Registry Fixer".Which of these is it?

OK it's the GIF below.

[Bold_Fortune]

Wait, let me look at those again.

[Bold_Fortune]

Gosh, I really can't tell by those pictures. Mine is a very old version of Ontrack (The second picture). But it looks like in that picture everything it offers is installed, so it's hard for me to say for sure. I only install the Regigistry Fixer and the Registry Cleaner from the Suite.

The Registry Fixer is actually the registry cleaner. The Registry Cleaner cleans out unused times, and on some other things, and only needs to be used once.

Oh wait. I looked on the CD. I have Version Number 4.0. So it has to be the second one you're showing me.

[aarhus2004]

Thanks