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  1. Alan, thanks for all of your time, trouble, and information. I had gone only to the first Google listing for Regshot, and it was for the SourceForge host, http://sourceforge.net/projects/regshot/, which had no reviews. I should have searched further, but usually SF is pretty comprehensive. Regshot sounds like the perfect answer to my question. Thank you so much! Glad I came here and asked. Best regards to all!
  2. Alan, Regshot sounds like the perfect answer to the question of what is changed by "anything", including drastic surgery. I note that it doesn't seem to be supported or well-documented, and that there are no reviews of it. Have you used it long and often, and are you confident of it? If so, then I think it is the answer to my question. Looking forward to your reply. Thanks. @Jamin, Right, I saw the portable along with the slim version once you get to the "downloads" page. It's just that there's nothing that I could see anywhere else on the site that would tell you that these are available, so I was just suggesting that the site mention these variations of the product and that they too are available on the same "downloads" page. It was just a suggestion to make them a little more visible, that's all. Regards to all.
  3. It doesn't look as though I can get a direct answer to the question, so I give up, but appreciate the time of everyone who responded. Keithuk, I don't mean to be disrespectful or ungrateful, but.. I did *not* ask how to register files. I did *not* ask how to unregister files. I did *not* ask for a tool to register or unregister files. So I appreciate your input, but it wasn't what I needed. What I had asked - twice - was whether deleting a single CC registry reference to a particular file would automatically cause that file to be Unregistered in the Regsvr32, which I did *not* want to happen. No one has been able to give me a definitive answer to that, but thanks anyway. Let's say that I find 3,000 entries in Reg Cleaner. If I back them all up and delete them all, then if anything breaks because of the Unregistering phenomenon that I asked about, then I have to restore all 3,000 from the backup. Nothing is simpler, but nothing has been accomplished, either. So it looks like I'll have to delete perhaps a handful of entries and wait a few days or a week to make sure nothing breaks. If it does, I have a limited number of "restores" to try, to isolate the guilty party. If not, delete a few more..... That should keep me busy for a year or so. Thanks, Jamin, but I didn't see any references to the slim version anywhere, until I clicked Download, with the intention of perhaps picking up the portable version. Only then were the options presented. May I offer the suggestion to have some references to the Slim Version in the general product information page? Most of the recent changes seem to be oriented towards Vista, Win7, and some other things not applicable to my situation. Since it presently isn't broken, I'm inclined to keep the version I have -- unless there's an actual bug in it that I've missed? Haven't seen any in a year or two of happy operation. Thanks again for the programs, the welcome, and the efforts of all who responded. Cheers to all.
  4. Thanks to everyone for taking the time to reply. I apologize for not stating my question and intent more clearly. I'll see if I can do better this time. I don't want to unregister some of the dll's, etc. that I have deleted. Not "missing", but that *I deliberately deleted*, in the interest of slimming Windows and the HDD. My principal source for guidance in this states as follows: So now I hope my original intent was clear. Let's say that wtf.dll shows in "Missing Shared Dlls", in, say, ProgramFiles\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Triedit, because I don't use the Triedit function and deleted its entire folder. The quote above tells me that I should not necessarily unregister wtf.dll, because "UnRegistering it removes registry entries that belong additionally to other files that I do need on my system." So this is why I'm hoping that someone with expert knowledge of the registry, its functions, and how it operates, as well as how CC operates in deleting the single entry, like the example above, can tell me this. Will deleting this singe Reg entry for wtf.dll cause wtf.dll to be Unregistered, which might remove keys that point to it, but also point to other files that I have and need -- thereby causing me to lose those other functions? If so, then it would be better not to use the Reg Cleaner, or else do the painstaking task of deleting one at a time, of probably 3-4000 entries. Thanks, and I apologize again for not making this clear in the OP. *** @Jamin4u: Thanks for the welcome (and to the other welcomers as well). It seems the size of the new version has almost tripled versus the one I have. What additional useful capabilities would there be for updating?
  5. Hi Piriform people, and thanks for the great tools CC and Defraggler! Question: I have been de-bloating my HDD and Win XP SP2. Before using the Registry tools, "Missing Shared Dlls", and "ActiveX and Com Issues", I need to know whether deleting the Reg entries found by CC in these categories will also *unregister* the associated DLL, ActiveX (.ocx), .exe, etc. from the regserver. The reason I ask is that one of the major sources that I have been using for which files can be deleted, warns that there are some files which are safe to delete, but must not be unregistered. The technical reasons aren't pertinent here -- yet -- I don't think. I just need to know whether deleting the above entries, Missing Shared and ActiveX/Com, will unregister the associated files, or will leave them registered. Many thanks in advance! CC 2.10.618
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