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registry cruft -- no longer a problem[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#7)
by Reziac on Tue Jun 01, 2004 at 11:26:49 AM PDT

Get a copy of ToniArts' Easycleaner, and run it religiously once a week. There is a v2.x out now (see http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane.htm), but I prefer old v1.7 (eclea1_7*.exe, do a search and assorted download sites will come up. If all else fails, use filesearching.com ... I love the Russians, they never throw away anything :)

Be sure to exclude "norton" and "help", but you can safely let it nuke any other invalid registry entries it finds. I have hand-vetted what it wants to delete, and have never seen the registry cleaning part make a mistake; in any event it keeps undo files for the paranoid. It can be used on any Win9*/ME/2K/XP system.

The Start Menu cleaner component is also very good. However, the duplicate files finder component is buggy, so I recommend you don't use it.

[sorry if this got posted twice; had a connection glitch]

~REZ~
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