Hello I am new to the forum, but not to CCleaner.
I am using version 3.10.1525 and I am running Windows 7 Pro, 64-bit. At the main menu under the "Application" tab there are a list of items. The heading labeled "Applications" it lists some old Microsoft Office versions that I had once installed, but have moved on to the newer one. It lists
Microsoft Office 2003
Microsoft Office 2007
Microsoft Office 2010 (currently have)
Not sure if it matters, but all of them were licensed versions and were uninstalled using the Add/Remove in the control panel prior to installing the next version.
Is there a way to remove the old entries, the 2003 and 2007?
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It's probably picking them up from here:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\##
-and/or-
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\##
Note: The ## is the actual Office version, not the year they tack onto each release.
However if you're not sure about manually editing the registry then by all means leave it alone to be safe, those old entries won't harm anything.
Thanks and I found out about the ##. 11.0 was Office 2003, 12.0 is Office 2007 (but that I have to keep since I am still using Visio 2007) and 14.0 is Office 2010.
I removed 11.0 and then ran CCleaner and it removed it. All programs still are working as I ran them, opened files, saved, etc. So than you on that.
I have another question, not sure should I ask on this thread or start a new one? It is regards to the Application tab under Applications. The main one I have a question is "Compact Databases"
Compact Databases "vacuums" the content out of the databases used by several web browsers. It's okay to run every once in a while, but there's not much benefit in running it every time you run the cleaner.
I was wondering if this cleared out the cache, but I just ran a test and I see it does not. Thanks for the reply.