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I'm pretty certain it's the same as the paid-for version in this respect (though I haven't tried with the free version); you can create a rescue CD and restore the system from a Reflect image on an external USB drive - that's certainly how I've used it before. The 'Windows boot menu option' is simply an extension to your F8 boot menu.

Here's an open source alternative ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus ... might be a bit too fully-featured for what you need though?

Check out the site Ishi ... http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp ... many people here including myself use it and highly recommend it.

Avira is currently running 14Mb on mine

I tried Namebench a week or so ago; it seems to do a pretty comprehensive test.

This does not achieve the same result. As I understand the OP, their code cleans the entire set of user profiles in one pass (excluding the registry for all but the logged-on user of course). Your suggestion will provide a CCleaner link for any single logged-on user (as opposed to the out-of-the-box behaviour which provides a link only for the profile used to install CCleaner). In order to achieve the same effect as the OP's code, every user with a profile must log on and run CCleaner.

Theat's true, although I believe the files in question are CCleaner back-ups, so file content shouldn't be an issue unless they have been edited. The encoding issue is one I've both seen and experienced when a reg file has been saved in notepad but in default ANSI format. Nic a glance at the header (just the first line) should confirm that it looks like one of the two values in Andavari's post..

You're missing my point. CCleaner's reg cleaner tries to identify inconsistencies in the registry; it's an integrity checker. IE URL history entries are not inconsistencies. Whether or not you want them there is neither here nor there. However these entries are not essential to registry integrity and contain data about users' browsing habits, so CCleaner does allow you to remove these via it's ordinary cleaning options. And this is as it should be. Why is this an issue? I have FreeDownloadManager installed. And yes there are many empty keys. But it is not any registry cleaner's responsibility to determine what keys are required by an installed program; whether those keys are empty or not. Any registry cleaner that does remove these is reckless. See this current thread for more discussion on empty keys ... http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=26546&hl=

My opinion, FWIW: I had to laugh when I saw redhawk's post ... I very nearly added something very similar to this thread then changed my mind because I've said it all before. And I completely agree. (Ishi this comment isn't directed at you). There are many people who feel that unless the registry is 'like new' it's not working to it's optimum. Please excuse the lousy analogy (I'm a sucker for 'em) but it's like believing your car will drive discernibly more quickly when it's clean and polished than when it's dirty. By all means tidy the registry (not that it substantially needs it) but don't go overboard about it and more importantly don't get hung up that your PC is going to be so much the worse for wear unless you do it. As redhawk says, if you have a problem that's a different matter; but that's not what threads like these are about.

If it is an encoding problem (something I've seen before) it's not CCleaner back-ups causing the problem, but it's because there was a file association with notepad. Now that you've changed the association you shouldn't get any problems with CCleaner reg back-ups that you take in future.

Hi Nic ... you see the encoding in a drop-down when you have the Save As box open ... it's just part of the the way the file is saved. Just follow through slowly and post back if it's still not clear

I think this is because of the previous notepad association. Try this with one file: Take a copy of it just in case. (Right-click then Copy then Paste). Open the file in notepad. Do File / Save As to get the Save dialog box open. Check the encoding ... it probably says ANSI. Change it to Unicode and save the file by overwriting (you already have a back-up copy). Double-click the newly saved reg file to merge it into the registry. If that works you can do the same with your other entries; though there's no need to keep taking copies once you've made sure it works.

Create a file called my.fred Do a right-click on the file to bring up the context menu ... nothing more. That action alone (in XP at least) is enough to create a .fred file extension entry in in the registry! Files are created with all sorts of extensions for all sorts of reasons ... it doesn't take much for unusual extensions to get added to the registry.

These are 'genuine' key values not registry inconsistencies: CCleaner removes those in the main cleaning operation. Then CCleaner is doing the better job. Again, the values for exiting files are 'genuine' values not registry inconsistencies. Sometimes less is more! There are no absolutes in registry cleaning software; only 'less safe' and 'safer'. CCleaner tries to be 'safer'!

Yes indeed; thank you !

Hi Joseph, welcome to the forums If you look here ... http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=26494&hl= ... you'll see that CCleaner's MUIcleaning has been improved, so it's probably just finding items that it missed at earlier versions. When you install an updated version of any software, it's often a good idea to see what the 'change log' is so that you know what to expect

Interesting site ... haven't come across that before.

Ooo that's interesting ... I'll take a look

Ah ... I thought from the tone of the thread the source was a bit of a mystery That's an unusual picture for desktop wallpaper Did you remove the registry entry with CCleaner?

Have a look here ... http://abstract.desktopnexus.com/wallpaper/196935/ ... mouse over the top right in the set of four, down the page ... 'T.K. - Stillwater Cottage'. Look familiar ?!

Now that I agree with

Ah ... lucky you had AV running then But as you say ... you can't get much more innocuous looking than that.

That is useful. Glad you're reconciled

I think that's the key thing really ... it's difficult to make too many changes to what's there without a fair bit of redesign.

It's not like me to give such a short reply but yes, broadly I agree