Recently, I've been unable to install many programs (Google Chrome, Firefox, heck I can't even update certain programs) so I've begun to wonder what really has been the issue. I did a little research and I found my way to CCleaner. Now, I'm no technical genius, but I ran a registry scan (as I think it has something to do with my DLL files being either corrupt or missing). And the results were flattering, almost 1000+ errors. Included are "Invalid firewall rule" , "Missing Shared DLL" , "Missing MUI Reference" and many more files which I believe are safe to remove. Now, my only question is, if I do delete these things, and something does go wrong, how would I restore my computer? If you need anymore information based on my errors/computer specs please feel free to ask.
I don't encourage registry cleaning and I doubt cleaning the registry will fix your issue.
If you must tinker with it, clean only small chunks of items and absolutely backup.
You can restore a backup by right-clicking it and merge.
Hi Kevin, and welcome to the forum.
Your post has piqued my curiosity as you sound to be in a bad way, maybe even suffering from the after effects of a malware infection.
If you would like to provide some details about your computer ... Operating System for a start and how and when your problems started we may be able to offer some help or even guidance as to where you can get your computer professionally checked over for free.
Entirely up to you of course.
You can restore a backup by right-clicking it and merge.
I'd say also make a System Restore Point, since some people in the past haven't been able to merge CCleaner's backup .reg files.