[Registry Cleaners]

There are very advanced books written on the registry subject.  Just like me, you're going to be learning as you go, and it will take ages to understand it all.  It's not really CCleaner's fault that it's not more easy to understand -- after all, CCleaner can't tell you *why* there are useless entries in the registry, because the reasons are always different.  You'd have to go on a case-by-case basis.  There's a lot to know about Windows internals, especially  the registry.  All I can say is: gather as much knowledge as you can for now, and for anything you can't figure out, post a thread and we'll try to assist.  Try to avoid guides about "tweaking", as they don't properly describe what's going on in the registry as much as they just compile lists of program-specific and OS-specific settings.

 

Some things to look up:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT

'classes' in the registry, in general

CLSID

COM (Component Object Model)

 

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[Registry Cleaners]

Yea, I trust CCleaner so much I turned off the backup feature. Didn't see a pont in it.

 

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On that very subject, does anyone know where i can find a list that will translate what the data and registry keys are. I'd like to know what i'm deleting. In the past i've lost some valuable items because i didn't know what i was deleting. I've since added "Tweak Now Registry Cleaner" which has been extremely helpful, but i have a suspicion that it's not weeding out all the bad entries in my Registry. For example, if i run Tweak Now before CCleaner, it's probable that CCleaner will pick up an additional 10-20 entries that tweak now didn't catch. The differance of course being, i have a much better idea of what i'm deleting in Tweak Now than in CCleaner's "Issues". I hope i did this right, i've attempted to attach the current list od "issues", if there isn't a comprehensive list, a formula or a way to figure out what they are, or failing that, maybe an idea of what the items on this "Issues" list are.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Well i guess the transfer of the attachment didn't work. Error message stated i could not attach that type of extention! Oh well, I tried. What does BB code ( I'm knda new to this Forum business )