I've signed up because I'll be crazy soon, just wanted to see if there's a solution before that could happen,
I'm on Windows 10,this is the second time, at first time I had to re-install Windows, it's time consuming. What's happening is when everything is happy, I say to myself, why not let's clean up with ccleaner, that time where things get f**d up, regarding to msc, the even viewer get f*cked up, also the Task Scheduler, I've tried every god damn solution on the Internet, no luck,
also tried sfc /scannow even DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Scanhealth && DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth
tried to delete keys as instructed by some solutions at Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MMC\SnapIns
Reinstalls Windows 10 and keeps your personal files.
Removes apps and drivers you installed.
Removes changes you made to settings.
Removes any apps your PC manufacturer installed. (If your PC came with Windows 10, apps from your PC manufacturer will be reinstalled.)
Yesterday I chose that but canceled it when I see that everything going to be deleted as if windows get freshly installed. I have no problem backup my data then reinstall windows. but I hope not to. I feel that registry clean up the root of the issue, I regret to not backup the registry before the operation get done, ccleaner asked to backup, I chose skip. I thought it would be some kind of "slight" cleaning,
People do not make a backup of the registry entries when CCleaner offers them the chance to do it.
This causes problems as you have found out.
There are people who do make backups and also have system images for when things go wrong.
The registry is an important place and should only be cleaned if you understand what you are doing.
I'm an experienced Windows user, I took a look before I cleaned up the registry with ccleaner, all entries were OK, plus I've not doubt there's a connection between what entries going to be cleaned with Microsoft Management Console issues, that's why I accepted what ccleaner offered to clean up.
my personal theory on why CC offers a registry cleaner is to compete against other cleaners that have that feature and sometimes, rarely, it can help to remove the broken junk from the registry.
only on one occasion I can recall, all my cleanup efforts on a PC to remove a malware redirection were unsuccessful until I ran the reg cleaner and removed a particular entry.
so for 'infection' removal I can see a small reason to run a registry cleaner.
as part of routine maintenance, there is absolutely no reason or benefit is doing so. especially considering as you have found, the risk for things going pear-shaped.
as for running a Refresh process with Windows 10, I can confirm with @hazelnut that it's a painless exercise (as much as any of these things can be)
as to backups, whenever offered, take one. no-one has ever found themselves in trouble by taking too many backups - whereas the flip side of that only ever ends with pain.
and backups should cover two distinct areas, a system image and a data backup.
sometimes you may only want to recover a deleted file or such and extracting files from system images can get messy.
other times a complete, recent system image can quickly be re-applied to restore a system back to a point in time.
with imaging software now, it only takes less than 10 minutes to create or restore an image, there really is not excuse to not do them.
but I digress, being an experienced user I'm sure you are aware of all that.
my personal theory on why CC offers a registry cleaner is to compete against other cleaners that have that feature and sometimes, rarely, it can help to remove the broken junk from the registry.
only on one occasion I can recall, all my cleanup efforts on a PC to remove a malware redirection were unsuccessful until I ran the reg cleaner and removed a particular entry.
so for 'infection' removal I can see a small reason to run a registry cleaner.
as part of routine maintenance, there is absolutely no reason or benefit is doing so. especially considering as you have found, the risk for things going pear-shaped.
as for running a Refresh process with Windows 10, I can confirm with @hazelnut that it's a painless exercise (as much as any of these things can be)
as to backups, whenever offered, take one. no-one has ever found themselves in trouble by taking too many backups - whereas the flip side of that only ever ends with pain.
and backups should cover two distinct areas, a system image and a data backup.
sometimes you may only want to recover a deleted file or such and extracting files from system images can get messy.
other times a complete, recent system image can quickly be re-applied to restore a system back to a point in time.
with imaging software now, it only takes less than 10 minutes to create or restore an image, there really is not excuse to not do them.
but I digress, being an experienced user I'm sure you are aware of all that.
Actually ccleaner was last thing to do before taking a system image, that's why I frustrated because I'm going to lose all my settings, customization and apps since I've unresolved issue with MSC to start over from scratch.
I hope there's any logs ccleaner leaves after its operations, if just I could find a log regarding to the registry cleaning process, then I'd understand what to do next.
I hope there's any logs ccleaner leaves after its operations, if just I could find a log regarding to the registry cleaning process, then I'd understand what to do next.
The reg back up is your log I guess, but you didn't make one
Just go for the Win 10 clean install (as you don't seem to want to do a Refresh) and put it all down to experience.
The reg back up is your log I guess, but you didn't make one
Just go for the Win 10 clean install (as you don't seem to want to do a Refresh) and put it all down to experience.
Yea I know what I have to do, still I suggest ccleaner to make auto registry backups, since those backup files would be small enough to not take that much space any way... currently ccleaner prompts the user to take a backup before cleaning up. mostly we ignore that step because we don't take it that serious.