totallyskint1

Yes Keith, that is what I meant, sorry I didn't explain it well

Hi again Davey, I've come back to report to you where I am now. I did go ahead and reinstall windows in the end. It's taken me about a week or so to get my pc performing well and installing the browsers, programs and internet, and so on. Well Davey, after all of the reinstalling I have done I only have one registry key that keeps coming back. It is the same one as before (I had 21 or so before reinstalling) I have noticed when I right click on CCleaner it takes me to regedit where there is an open folder, does an open folder mean that there is nothing in it and it is safe to delete? It's one of those ARP cache management keys, thank's in advance Davey, totallyskint

I'm listening to you now Davey, I wont reinstall Windows, I will leave my computer as it is. The only reason I was thinking about reinstalling was because, (In between playing online poker) I seem to have become a "Serial down loader" of programs. I have even put a notice on my calender saying, "Stop down loading free-ware", and I thought if I reinstalled windows I would have learned this time not to keep installing programs. Anyway Davey, thank you for your help and advice.

Thank You Davey for your words of wisdom, and Thank You for replying to my message. I have checked out the link you posted and I am satisfied now that the registry keys that are pointing nowhere is no big deal, and also, when Microsoft put sp3 and messenger 9 back on the downloads page, I will be brave and reinstall windows again. I'll always keep a copy of CCleaner on my computer and recommend it to friends as it is a bloody good little program. Once again Davey, Thank You

Sorry to trouble you again, and Thank You for your replies, as I said in my last posting I tried installing Dial-a-fix and I am still in the same predicament, has anyone any other suggestions please? thank You in advance.

I installed dial-a-fix and ran the "repair permissions tool", and when I went back to CCleaner the entries were all still there, but all of the writing wasn't there, (for a while), I thought it had done the trick, and ran the CCleaner a little later and all of the entries came back again. I have read the instructions fully and done as I was told, but I'm back to square 1 with the 21 entries still recurring, any more suggestions please?

Thank You for the reply Yokenny, I'll take your advice and give it a go

Thanks for you reply Keithuk, I have clicked on the (fix selected issues) many times and the entries disappear and every every couple of days, they reappear. When I right click on each of them, CCleaner tells me to delete the registry key

Hello all, I wonder if any of you computer people can help me please. I do quite a lot of cleans a week and every couple of days (if I haven't installed or uninstalled any programs) I have 21 uninstaller reference issues come up. I have right clicked on each of them and the solution, "Delete the registry key", comes up. Is it safe for me to delete them one by one? They are all, HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Currentversion\App Management\ARPCache\ Thank You in advance