I'd like to see CCleaner output registry paths to be cleaned by RegKeys, rather than displaying nothing.
+1 billion maybe
Can you explain?
CCleaner already does display registry keys to be cleaned when you click scan under Registry.
Perhaps you had a different idea?
I am a little confused by what you mean.
CCleaner 3.22 does show the paths of the reg keys to be cleaned, at least on my machine...
cleaner section any reg keys, such as MRU
+ 2billion
As nergal said, I'd like to see reporting of the registry keys cleaned by entries such as those in winapp, winsys, winapp2, etc that use RegKey
+ ∞
That's + infinity!
Thanks for clarifying, Nergal & Winapp2.ini
Very nifty!
+ 100
i came here to make this exact suggestion. its annoying not knowing what is actually being deleted. there should be an option under 'View detailed results' that will show you what reg keys were deleted. for example if you 'Analyze/Clean' the 'Run (in Start Menu)' it says "0 bytes to be removed. (Approximate size)" because it’s not deleting any files but it does delete registry keys in ‘HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU’. i really think this needs to be added so at least users know what they are deleting.
i know you can export the winapp.ini & winsys.ini which show the default ccleaner rules and winapp2.ini for others that were added. then i can use REG QUERY to check and see what registry keys will be deleted but that’s a lot of work. at that point i might as well just delete them myself.
@jonjonjon That's a very good example of the need to the suggestion.
Thank you.
I forgot about this. Still would love to see it.
+1
In the mean time, here's a small app I just whipped up. It dumps winapp.ini, winsys.ini and winreg.ini, then iterates through each of them looking for regkey entries. If winapp2.ini is also present, that will be scanned too.
The list of keys is dumped to a file called regkeys.output.txt
Download CCRegDump.exe (.NET required. Wasn't paying attention to which version: ymmv)
Download regkeys.output.txt (for CCleaner 3.27, excluding winapp2)
+1, but it would probably scare the daylights out of many users.
I think it could be implemented in a way that wouldn't freak people out too much.
Example: 12 files, 3 keys.
expanding it shows
Files:
C:\Blah.txt
Keys:
HKCU\Software\Blah\Blah
can I do another +1 on this and say it would also allow users to stop the removal of items pinned in app-right-clicks (via the already there exclude right click in details view)