ikati

well, I ran it multiple times today. and it cleaned out EVERYTHING the first time (as far as the registry) - there was nothing the rest of the day. so.. I don't know what happened yesterday. thanks.

so.. are you saying that CCleaner does not return all the activex problems the first time? but.. there should be no problem fixing the new issues, right? even though they are different? That's what bothered me, is that the entries were different problems. ok.. I will run it again, and make sure everything is closed. I will let you know what happens, ok?

I decided to try the registry cleaner which I hadn't tried before. I wanted to see what it did, so I cleaned each section separately.. saving the registry for each cleaning. I got done.. tried a couple of programs that I was a bit worried about.. and they worked fine. so.. about 30 minutes later.. I run the registry cleaner again.. expecting no entries. I have not installed/uninstalled anything.. just been surfing. and.. there was a whole new set of active x problems. so.. what causes these problems besides installing/uninstalling? and.. is there a limit to how many CCleaner will fix at one time? maybe I had too many, and it only fixed so many the first time? ?? here are the 2 sets of entries registry_activexclass.txt registry_activexclass2.txt registry_activexclass.txt registry_activexclass2.txt