pwillener

Really???

No registry cleaner is 100% safe, not even CCleaner. My personal opinion: the Windows registry does not need cleaning. There may be unused entries, even lots of unused entries, but they do not interfer with Windows running. The registry hives do not even get smaller if you don't compact them after cleaning. And if you do compact them, you may find that you have only gained a few KB. I have never run any registry cleaners (except for testing), and all my Windows systems run smoothly.

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More and more modern software will no longer work on Windows 2000, and in a few years we will start to see the same thing for Windows XP. Backwards compatibility will make the applications bigger, more work for the developers, and more difficulties testing. A similar thing recently happened with the latest Flash Player installer. One user found a hack to patch the installer, but that cannot really be a solution... What was the function call used in the previous version that was replaced with WTSGetActiveConsoleSessionId() only the developers can know. Doing a little bit research on this particular issue I found someone who is building new KERNEL32.dll versions for Windows 2000, with more functionality; see http://www.msfn.org/...ex-for-win2000/ I do no longer have a W2K machine, so I cannot test it for you. But if you want to get CCleaner 3.21 working on your system, maybe you want to try it. I strongly suggest to make a backup of your system before installing a modified KERNEL32.dll! On the other hand I do not think that new CCleaner versions bring a lot of new functionality on W2K. P.S. on the Japanese download site you will want at least v13i (that contains the WTSGetActiveConsoleSessionId entry point).

Can you try if this also happens with the latest CCleaner 3.21 version?

Where do you see 64-bit? To the best of my knowledge, CCleaner will automatically install the 32-bit version on 32-bit systems, and both 32-bit & 64-bit versions on 64-bit systems. P.S. according to http://www.piriform.com/docs/ccleaner/introducing-ccleaner/system-requirements .NET Framework is not required to run CCleaner. Do you need .NET Framework for any other applications? If not, I would not reinstall after uninstalling it.

Did you let CCleaner make a backup before going ahead with the registry cleaning? if yes, can you look at the backup file and check if anything in the keyboard layout area was removed? If you are still having the problem, can you try a System Restore to a date before you ran the cleaner?

msconfig does not show you all there is; CCleaner does a much better job. Autoruns shows even more, but I would not recommend that to inexperienced users.

They may be pointing to stuff that still exists on your system. Anyway, you shouldn't worry too much about the Windows registry; it doesn't really matter if it is a few bytes larger or smaller.

IE9 does support HTML5. But there are millions of sites out there who offer their content only in Flash format; not much Microsoft can do about that... Other browsers supporting HTML5: http://html5test.com/results/desktop.html

Reading through this topic, I am surprised that nobody mentioned Waterfox at all. Waterfox is the highly optimized 64-bit version of Firefox; I haven't used anything else since it was first released in September 2011. There are certain tools that do not work well on non-IE browsers (e.g. http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/detect); in these cases I use IE9 (64-bit).

If you are running Windows, then a registry merge will put the data into the active (your) registry. Not sure if there is any way to merge a .reg file into a registry that is not active.

Or NTREGOPT, from the maker of ERUNT.

Just a small correction: the keyboard shortcut for Paste is Ctrl+V.

I personally have stopped using any registry cleaners, including CCleaner's, years ago I have never seen any noticeable improvement after cleaning the registry, and on the other hand never seen any performance decrease by not cleaning the registry. I have experimented with registry cleaners many years ago, and I have noticed that the registry will actually shrink a few KB if you compress it after the cleaning run. But what do a few KB mean when we now have memory in the size of gigabytes, and disk capacities in the size of terabytes? My personal advice: let Windows handle its registry, and you use the computer doing something productive.

P.S. and while CCleaner is at it, it could also move %SYSTEMROOT% and %SYSTEMROOT%\system32 to the top of the list.

Thank you for checking this! I have just done a CCleaner run with Environment Path checked, and it reduced my PATH list from 33 entries (including an empty one - two semicolons) to 28. What it does not remove are duplicates; I found three entries of "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live". Maybe that could be an additional small improvment to CCleaner?

What means "cannot"; what exactly happens when he tries? What part of CCleaner did he use - the registry cleaner? If so, a System Restore to a date before that could restore its original functionality.

I am a native German speaker, but I am not very good with German computer terms; I mainly use English terms (I have been using English and Japanese operating systems for the last 25 years, and also been conversing mostly in these languages). So what is it that you mostly need: translating terms, sentences, error messages, ...? Also, what is the volume that needs translation?

Or do a System Restore to a time before you ran the cleaner.

It's the 2nd option from the bottom:

To add to Andavari's list * clean up your Startup list (CCleaner | Tools | Startup)

New Flash Player versions can often cause various problems when used in conjunction with outdated graphics drivers.

The Adobe site also provides full (offline) installers without bundled software: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html The uninstallers can be found at http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/uninstall-flash-player-windows.html (Windows) or http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/uninstall-flash-player-mac-os.html (Mac).

This topic in the Secunia forum shows what Secunia thinks of their users' opinions: http://secunia.com/community/forum/thread/show/12257/launch_of_secunia_s_new_personal_software_inspector_takes_private_computer_security_to_the_next_level