how do you exclude Registry?

I need help really bad!

I need to exclude registry files but i don't know how!

I click exclude registry but i don't know what to type!

PLZ PLZ PLZ HELP!

Welcome to Piriform Robert.

I need to exclude registry files but i don't know how!

I click exclude registry but i don't know what to type!

PLZ PLZ PLZ HELP!

You need to exclude registry files? Your other posts asks

You should add a Registry button in the options menu.

You either use the Registry option or not. The registry files are the backup of the details it removes you can turn this backup off in Options\Advanced and remove the tick frm Show prompt to backup registry issues but its not advisable. ;)

robert, I've deleted the other topic, as both questions are very similar, and can be addressed here.

Keith has addressed one aspect of CCleaner and the registry, but if you mean how can you exclude a registry key from being cleaned, then do the following:

Navigate to the key in question. Start > Run > enter "regedit" (without the quotes), hit OK.

In the tree menu on the left, right click the folder and select "copy key name".

In "CCleaner > Options > Exclude", select "Add Registry". In the small window of the address bar, select the Registry Hive where the key resides, ie HKCR, HKCU etc..

Then right click the main adress bar and select paste.

Now the important bit. At the beginning of the address you've just pasted, you must delete the Registry Hive name ie?HKEY_CURRENT_USER.

The OK box will now become active. If it doesn't, it's probably because you haven't carried out the last instruction exactly, or, the Hive selection in the small box doesn't match the Hive the pasted address came from.

That's it, select OK and the reg key will be in the exclude window.

Hope this helps.

EDIT: Forgot the regedit instructions.

robert, I've deleted the other topic, as both questions are very similar, and can be addressed here.

Keith has addressed one aspect of CCleaner and the registry, but if you mean how can you exclude a registry key from being cleaned, then do the following:

Navigate to the key in question. Start > Run > enter "regedit" (without the quotes), hit OK.

In the tree menu on the left, right click the folder and select "copy key name".

In "CCleaner > Options > Exclude", select "Add Registry". In the small window of the address bar, select the Registry Hive where the key resides, ie HKCR, HKCU etc..

Then right click the main adress bar and select paste.

Now the important bit. At the beginning of the address you've just pasted, you must delete the Registry Hive name ie?HKEY_CURRENT_USER.

The OK box will now become active. If it doesn't, it's probably because you haven't carried out the last instruction exactly, or, the Hive selection in the small box doesn't match the Hive the pasted address came from.

That's it, select OK and the reg key will be in the exclude window.

Hope this helps.

EDIT: Forgot the regedit instructions.

Thanks for the help!

I tried it and it worked!

The other forum was a suggestion for the next version of CCleaner for people like me who don't know who to get the key name but don't want to unclick all the boxes next to the registry files they don't want to delete.

Well done robert, I'm pleased you got it sorted, and I agree, it could be a little easier and I'm sure the CCleaner developers will bare your suggestion in mind when looking at future versions.

And to think... All this time I used to edit the ini manualy, adding the keys. I never noticed the registry button :lol:

And to think... All this time I used to edit the ini manualy, adding the keys. I never noticed the registry button :lol:

Adding them inside of CCleaner doesn't always work though, for reference.

I've never excluded keys, so?how do you mean it doesn't always work?

Does CCleaner still clean the key even if it's entered correctly into the "Exclude" window?

I've never excluded keys, so how do you mean it doesn't always work?

Does CCleaner still clean the key even if it's entered correctly into the "Exclude" window?

If it's entered into exclude it won't be cleaned.

For instance I exclude this key, and if I'm remembering correctly it's from AntiVir, amongst twenty four others...:

Exclude18=REG|HKCR\CLSID\{8EC31897-D1E6-4758-80BE-31E873AC2903}

...and CCleaner no longer finds it as a bad registry key, however I had to exclude it manually, I couldn't add it inside of CCleaner possibly because it has CLSID\ followed by that long key, that's my guess anyways.

Right, thanks.

Knowing that will give people, and myself included of course if I ever have the need,?the choice of the two options.