"Flowerlady" wrote:

How do I do a registry cleanup? I seem to have bits and pieces of old
programs, that have been uninstalled, in my pc. I would like to clean it up.
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Flowerlady


As a good general rule - you don't. If there is some bit or piece
command of an uninstalled program in the Registry that you KNOW is
causing a specific problem (doubtful) use Regedit to find all references
to it, and delete each one manually. But it's very rare to even have to
do that. Think of it this way:

You "deleted" a blouse from your clothes closet, but a button from the
blouse is still on the top shelf of your closest. It is hurting
*nothing*, it is taking up almost *zero* space - ignore it. The
difference is, if you do throw that button out, you can't hurt anything.
If you go looking for stray buttons - or use a program to find the
stray buttons - in the Registry, you can very easily hurt a lot of
things (even hose your computer).

Don't mess with "Registry Cleaners"

Tony


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