larry39
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This question may be in the gray area between software and hardware. Has anyone ever had the problem of phantom mouse clicks?
Occasionally, I will have a window to close, a menu slection activated just by passing over it, or a background window will become active, all on their own. I use a MicroSoft wireless keyboard and mouse connected via USB. My software allows adjustment for double click sensitivity only. My daughter has the same problem with her Dell laptop that uses a touch pad.
Anyone have any suggestions ?
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I think I would use it, because I've used "manual" multipass" for many years and it never generated problems of any sort.
I have found CCleaner to be very safe to use but I agree with Augeas about automated cleaning.
Just because CCleaner has never generated any problems for you, doesn't mean the next version won't.
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I have 'Automatically Check for Updates' selected also, but for me it doen't always tell me an update is available even if one is. Yet when I click on the Check updates button, I may find one available. I still have to select the version number and run the install file but not all the cleanup work you mentioned.
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You didn't mention the specs of your system, but on my windows XP machine, I just click on the 'check for updates' button on the lower right of Ccleaners' opening screen and the program jumps through all those hoops automatically. And if you do NOT uninstall the old version, CCleaner will retain your setttings.
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Hi Ray880,
Welcome to the forum.
That does sound like a lot of dll files for just one program. Have you made any recent changes to bitdefender lately or an uninstall/reinstall of bitdefender?
You could always have CCleaner make a backup of the changes before you delete the registry entries. Then if you have any problems with bitdefender associated with the deletions, you could merge the backup file back into the registry.
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Well, duh on my question on how to execute the vbs files. I went back to Kelly's Fixes and the instructions were right at the top of the page.
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After deleting the icon cache did you reboot in order for windows to recreate it?
Another way to refresh the icon cache is to change the icon size by one through Display Properties - Appearance tab - Advanced - select Icon from the drop down menu and change the size.
Also see lines 121 and 157, left columns, at the link below.
Yes, have rebooted several times since deleting cache file.
In Kelly's Fixes (btw, thanks for that link), line 157 will download a reg type file which can be merged, but line 121 references a vbs type file. How do I execute that?
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To decrease the time to display desktop icons, a forum post suggested to delete the iconcache.db file in the users application data directory and windows would re-create it. I deleted the db file and saw no difference in the time taken to refresh destop icons. Also, I have never seen the db file 'reappear' in the applications directory.
For my next trick, I thought about changing the max cached icons value. Since the value borrows from ram memory, I thought 2000 would be a good place to start. In regedit I did a search for the key and couldn't find it.
Now for my questions ( I can almost hear you saying, 'at last').
1. Should I restore the iconcache.db file from the recycle bin before I do anything else?
2. Is Max Cached Icons the correct name for the key?
3. If the key doesn't exist, should I add it with a value of 2000?
4. What folder or path name should it be located?
5. Am I on the right track or should I do something else all together?
System specs are on my signature.
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Here's an FYI update in case anyone is wondering if replacement of the stdole files corrected the problem. Un fortunately, it did not.
Rather than pursue it any further, I deleted the program manually and did a cleanup with CCleaner. Ikernel must only be used with certain software as I have since installed and uninstalled other software without this problem showing up.
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Thanks, I will do that for the Antivirus and Command Software Antivirus keys since I am not sure which one is the problem.
I am still curious though about the root cause. Is CCleaner supposed to ignore null keys?
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That's correct. One folder in Software called Antivirus with no sub folders.
Another folder in Software called Command Software with a sub folder called Command Antivirus.
Both the Antivirus and Command Antivirus had the same info.
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Mw experience with regedit is limited but this is what I found. This is probably over simplified because I'm not sure what is important and what isn't.
In regedit, I clicked on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE then Software, saw a folder (hive?) named Antivirus, and clicked on it.
In the right pane Name column was ab (default), in the type column was REG_SZ, there was no entry in the data column.
Lower down in the left pane Software column was another folder called Command Software with a sub of Command Antivirus. Cliked on it and it contained the same information.
Oddly I did not see anything listed in the registry that seemed to relate specifically to the AT&T Security suite. It has to be there but evidently with an obscure (or third party contractor's) name.
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I assume so. That assumption is based on the contents of the backup which is listed in post #1
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In case any program developers read this thread....
A registry scan with CCleaner version 2.04.543 still shows the empty AT&T antvirus key as an issue. I still have to de-select it before I fix issues. Since CCleaner is supposed to ignore empty keys, is there anything unique about this one that causes it to be flagged?
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Their notes and readme file on their web page give examples of command line switches but since the install is so fast it might be easier to uninstall it and reinstall with the auto feature selected.
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For me, once a month sounded good also. But as Andavari pointed out, the registry can grow and change even though you might not install and uninstall a lot of software. The comment reminded me that the registry changes for other reasons, for example changes in user profiles So, when I installed ERUNT, I used the option to have it backup the registry each time my PC boots. This may be overkill, but I've got plenty of disk space and I can always cull the backup copies.
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Thanks, I have downloaded the software and will be trying it out.
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I googled 'registry cleaner comparisons' and got a few results with some not so useful information. Typically the products were listed in order of preference where features were weighted. I say less than useful information because most of the comparisons listed the same products but in different order of rating. Eye of the beholder I suppose, but it did make me wonder if the 'experts' were promoting one product over the other.
At the present time I am very satisfied with the capabilities of CCleaner. Its a great program and very safe. I have had only one occasion where I have had to merge a backup file. But at some point, after I've gained more experience, I'm sure I will want to go beyond what CCleaner can do. File cleaning, registry cleaning, Compactor, startup sequencer, full registry backups, etc. and it would be nice to do all that from one program. That is what prompted me to try the trial Registry Clean Expert. But rather than looking for comparison reports, I will continue to read comments on registry tools on this forum. There are a lot of tech savy members and I have already learned a lot in the short time since I joined.
BTW, I if anyone has any thoughts on my original question (Post No 1) I would like to hear them.
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I have seen several registry tools mentioned on his forum with varying degrees of endorsement. For example, RegSeeker is mentioned but JD recommends caution when using it. I take it this means that RegSeeker is more agressive in its registry scan than some others.
I was wondering, for those like me who are just getting into registry tools, has any independent formal comparisons been made by any publications or individuals of at least some of these tools, either freeware and/or commercial?
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I ran the program and was supprised my registry was not as fragmented as I thought it might be. It was reduced from about 52k to about 50K, approximately 4%. I don't have a feel for what's normal but I've had my PC for a little over three years and I expected the registry to be more fragmented. Ayway its a good tool to have and you are right, free is good.
Thanks for the link.
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Since CCleaner doesn't compact the registry, I decided to try the trial version (4.57) of Registry Clean Expert. I had read some good reports on it on this forum.
In Expert, when I start the registry scan, sometimes an error window pops up and the program terminates before I can read the error. Sometimes the scan begins with the error still displayed with mostly cryptic text. The items scanned and problems found remained at 0. Problems found remaining at zero sounded great but it seemed to me the items scanned should have been incrementing. Because of the error, I wasn't sure Expert was doing what it was supposed to do, so after letting it run a bit, I stopped the scan.
Their suport group was no help-- they advised to uninstall, reboot and install again. I did this and got the same results when I ran the program.
I have Windows Home XP SP2 with all updates. The text of the error is given below. Except for the first four lines it seems to be all gibberish (at least to me). The error message gives some info on my system which is correct except it indicates my processor speed is 0MHz. Now that would be a really slooooooooooooooooow processor. Its actually a 3.06 GHz.
Expert would be a very useful progam if i could use it. Anyone have any ideas on the problem?
Here is the error:OS: Windows XP Home Edition, SP2
CPU: GenuineIntel, Intel Pentium 4, MMX @ 0 MHz
Module name: C:\Program Files\Registry Clean Expert\RCleaner.exe
Application data:
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It will be next week before I have access to another computer, but I will try that.
Thanks.
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I was logged on as administrator, but I tried the 4 fixes on the install shield but they didn't work.
The microsoft web page mentions the possiblity of corrupted or missing stdole32.tlb, stdole2.tlb or stdole.tlb files in the
Windows\system32 direcory. My system only shows the stdole.tlb file. Microsoft gives directions on how to extract these files from the xp disk. Problem is, my Sony system was preloaded with XP and I don't have a dedicated xp disk, just system recovery and application recovery disks. I tried reinstalling the image station program and then trying again to uninstall it. No luck there either.
I'm not too concerned about not being able to uninstall image statation as it's not a very big application. But will this be a problem on all installs?
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Same error in Safe Mode
Phantom Mouse Clicks
in Software
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I had already checked that the mouse was clean so I tried the focus setting suggested by Humpty. It's been about two weeks now without the problem ocurring, so it seems the focus setting did the trick.
Thanks to all who responded.