I am a long time user of CCleaner and have just ignored this issue, up until now. CCleaner (ver 2.31.1153) routinely finds 2 application programs on both of my 2 PCs (WinXP Pro SP3), that were uninstalled a long time ago - MS Office 2003 and Google Toolbar. MS Office 2007 is installed and is what I am currently using.
Looking at the winapp.ini file, I can see why CCleaner is detecting both programs - the registry entries are still there:
HKCU\Software\Google\NavClient\1.1
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common
Using WinXP Add/Remove Programs, there are no entries for Office 2003 or Google Toolbar. I even ran the Windows Installer Cleanup Tool and it shows no entries for either application.
After recent runs of CCleaner, I have noticed that it cleaned a handful of files from Office 2003!?! I wasn't smart enough to run Analyze first and look at the View Detailed Results to see what files CCleaner found and what folder(s) they were in - I will try to remember to do that first the next time I run CCleaner.
My question is this: how do I safely uninstall the remnants of Office 2003 and the Google Toolbar so that CCleaner no longer detects them? Is it safe to just delete these registry entries? I'm reluctant to do that since CCleaner seems to be finding files attributed to Office 2003. Something is creating those files, but I don't know what.
Thanks for any help!
