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Re: Registry Cleaners
On Sat, 04 Aug 2007 12:52:03 -0700, Al <al_kaufmann@hotmail.com>
wrote:
>I just uninstalled a program on this Home Premium 64bit system and it
>left a few things lying around. I manually deleted the
>files/directories it could not delete but the program still shows as
>installed when you go into Programs & Features. Of course it is NOT
>installed and clicking on it and telling it to uninstall gets you
>nowhere. It is suggested that you install the program and try it
>again. I did with the same results. :-(
>
>There used to be a good Program for Windows XP Pro that you could use
>to remove this program fromn that list, I think it was part of
>PowerTools. Is there something like that for Vista?
>
>Also I looked at registry cleaners to see if they could do the job.
>Now they all seem to scan for free but they want the money if you
>expect them to actually do anything. If I buy it, would it remove
>that program from showing up in the install program list?
>
>I guess there are a lot of program that do not clean up after
>themselves properly, it found 397 things in my registry that could be
>deleted.
>
>Al
If not you can benefit from a Registry Cleaner depends on what and how
well written the software on your system is. The crowd that says never
use a Registry Cleaner are simply ignorant if this any many other
facts. Does everyone need or benefit from a Registry Cleaner? Of
course not. That doesn't mean some people won't benefit. It is usually
just another chorus of the do as I say crowd trying to fake they know
what they're talking about.
Way back when Windows was just arriving on the scene these use to be a
program called Clean Sweep. It sat in the background and waited for
you to install a new application. When you did it would pop up and
record a detailed log of every entry changed or added to your system.
Then when you deleted the application it used this log to fully remove
it and restore the system to how it was prior to installing the new
application.
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