Hi guys. In the Applications tab of Cleaner menu, I see some softwares listed like Daemon Tools, Nero, Google Earth etc that are not even installed in my computer. It was installed in the past anyway. How do I remove these entries from this menu. Where are the traces left behind on the disk, for the files to show up in the Applications tab?
Thank you in advance
They are in the registry.
@jack, when you uninstall or remove software, lots of registry keys get left behind in many or most cases. If not all.
U have to remove the registry keys to be fully rid of it.
Depends on the entry. If you can provide a list of offending entries, we can tell you what to remove to get rid of them.
Yes, I have seen this problem myself and it is indeed because of the leftover registry entries left by these unnstalled programs that makes CCleaner think these programs are still installed. CCleaner has a Registry cleaner tool which you can use to detect and remove Registry items related to these apps are were uninstalled so that they would no longer appear on the "Applications" section.
As other said each program has either a detect file or a detect registry key
you can either list all offending programs for us (and we'll do the leg work of finding what you need to remove)
or
you can run "c:\program files\ccleaner\ccleaner.exe" /export (with the quotes, replace c:\program files\ccleaner with you location replace for 64bit if needed)
and read through the winapp.ini file that is created to find the offending programs yourself