jatale

Well, something is very fishy. I've been running CCleaner on my registry and it keeps finding the same 1623 entries. The account I have been using is a member of the WinXP administrators group. The first two runs of CCleaner seemed to actually remove a few things, but all subsequent runs seem to be doing nothing, the exact same 1623 entries keep showing up. Does anyone have any idea what could be going on here? Should I reboot after every sweep?

Thanks so much for the info! I'll just keep running CCleaner, most everything it is finding now are ActiveX/Com entries.

So far whenever I run CCleaner Issues it finds another 1700 entries to be deleted. How much crap is in my registry? Why do I have to run CCleaner again and again? Will it ever end? Some guidance from an experienced CCleaner user would be appreciated.

Hi. I just used CCleaner for the first time today to clean up my registry. My registry had never been cleaned since I first installed WinXP about 2 years ago now. Anyway, CCleaner Issues found about 1800 problems in the registry which I let it clean up. Now my machine is still running fine, but I noticed that when I loaded a mixed-media DVD the dialog box that pops up asking what program to run was still listing several programs that I had uninstalled sometime back (with blank icons since the files no longer existed). So I decided to run CCleaner Issues again and the second run produced another huge number of problems, almost all ActiveX and Class issues. Is this to be expected? Do you need to run CCleaner a number of times to finally cleanup the registry? Why didn't the first run get everything?