DjLizard

It's just not something CCleaner should or could do, and the risk is in compacting a registry that has corruption in it (which results in a largely truncated registry).

Don't see any 'free stuff'.

Microsoft Word generates the most incompatible HTML in the universe. FrontPage takes second place. http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/ - here is a program created specifically for repairing kludgy, moronic Microsoft-generated HTML. (hopefully, by reading that page, you can start to see the point of my rantings...) EDIT>>(that is only the *beginning* of "junk HTML" -- FrontPage is actually much worse) EDIT2>>(the author of demoroniser is the founder of Autodesk and co-author of AutoCAD!)

Yes it is. Once you learn HTML for yourself, and read the code that FrontPage has generated, you'll agree. Microsoft Word is even worse. Note that this is not an opinion, but actually a fact.

Tarun, lately you've been scaring me as you've been telling people to remove things they actually shouldn't be removing. Why would you want to rip out Sun Java like that?! You need to stick to removing malware, and stop recommending removal of things that are optional... like that one person that removed their security system on your recommendation... Anyway, Internet Explorer restrictions are present?! Argh! Definitely want to fix that.

I'm surprised nobody jumped to tell how horrible Frontpage is. rridgely: don't buy FrontPage, or anything, for that matter. Learn to edit HTML and PHP by hand.

LOL AWESOME QUOTE And Tarun, stop trying to be a know it all... especially when you didn't help fix or explain it

You do NOT want to work for Best Buy, Radio Shack, or Staples. Find a mom + pop tech shop.

What in the hell?! o_o

Probably one of many FAT32 filesystem bugs, eh?[like the 'free space' bug] Do you use raw API to delete files, or a built-in function?

Click Start, Run... Copy and paste this into the box and hit OK: cmd /c reg delete HKLM\Software\Opera and also: cmd /c reg delete HKCU\Software\Opera See if that helps. You can also trash that prefetch file you found, no biggie.

MrG: I had this problem today for the very first time. (which is reported by others, elsewhere on this forum, several times (I think)) Windows Me, laptop, 192 MB of RAM... first time the system's ever been cleaned (by ANYTHING)... the CCleaner progress bar must have gone to 100% about 15 times before it crashed (MSVBM60.dll). It's Windows Me, so of course it doesn't tell you anything useful when applications crash, unlike Win98. I then emptied %temp% by hand and then CCleaner finished instantly (deleted 4 MB) and stopped crashing. Not sure what relation it has to anything, just thought I'd throw my notes in here.

Phone lines are crap. Face it. They were usually installed in neighborhoods anywhere between the 40s and 70s, and they usually don't change much over the course of 50 years [as far as upgrades and maintenance]. Also, as Tarun said, the other end could have dropped -- after all, it is a computer too. Phone lines use only two wires to send and receive, and neither of them is a grounding wire... and they are not insulated, either. Line noise is going to happen. Dropped connections are going to happen. There is a modulated analog signal which is 100x more sensitive to noise than a voice phone call is. It's insane to even think that a modem drop has to do with deleting a few temporary/miscellaneous files on your computer.

I can say this much: the only difference in the x64 registry is that QWORDs exist.

Yeh... we want a solution to this problem, not an avoidance of the problem. This issue bugs the crap out of me. Ok, 4.reg was messed up or something and didn't make it to my site... I deleted it and then forgot what key I got it from anyway... no big loss..

Well I just realized that the opera detection key is special or something and is not listed in winapp.ini, so MrG will have to tell us what key is used to detect Opera...

Do you have Norton Antivirus (or any Norton product)? If you DO, try this: 1. Start Norton AntiVirus. 2. Click Options. 3. Click Script Blocking. 4. Uncheck "Enable Script Blocking (recommended)." 5. Click OK. If NOT, then... I dunno.

Well tell him how to remove it!

Either Irfanview is not registering them properly, or CCleaner should not be cleaning them...

Try installing this: http://www.djlizard.net/dload.php?action=d...oad&file_id=131

What programs are listed that you don't have?

That doesn't look right... he's right to be alarmed

My techs love the idea

Since this is a laptop, you really should be going to the laptop manufacturer's website and going to support/downloads/whatever and telling it what model you have. Should give you a list of the most recent drivers available for it.

start, Run..., cmd /c attrib -r -h +s -a "%systemroot%\Downloaded Program Files" (including quotes) If that doesn't help (it shouldn't), then try merging each of these, and trying again before moving on to each next one: http://djlizard.net/1.reg failing that, try http://djlizard.net/2.reg then http://djlizard.net/3.reg etc http://djlizard.net/4.reg