I have a few live CD's (used for virus cleaning) that I got from friends which have many nice tools on them. CCleaner is one of them.
The problem is that CCleaner uses the registry from the OS in which it is installed. Therefore it cannot work on the infected computer.
Is there a way to load a remote registry hive so I can clean and edit startup registry entries from the infected computer?
Thanks,
JOe K.
no just use the portable version on the other builds site or switch it to use ini in advanced before burning it to cd (of course you'll also have to let it build the ini and copy the ini to the disc with ccleaner before burning)
I have a few live CD's (used for virus cleaning) that I got from friends which have many nice tools on them. CCleaner is one of them.The problem is that CCleaner uses the registry from the OS in which it is installed. Therefore it cannot work on the infected computer.
Is there a way to load a remote registry hive so I can clean and edit startup registry entries from the infected computer?
Thanks,
JOe K.
I believe you can load a hive into regedit but doubt you could make ccleaner recognize it.
Chances are it wouldn't be able to detect junk very well, as driver letter associations may be different than when loaded as the main OS.
Which would render many entries as junk/invalid.
It would be better just to get the PC to a point you can log in and use safe mode then run ccleaner from there.
Generally ccleaner is ... a cleaner ... it doesn't 'fix' things. And it wasn't designed to run outside of the context of a logged-on user.
If you're wanting to do this from a CD for recovery purposes then even if you could run ccleaner it is extremely unlikely that it will do anything that will allow you to recover or get onto your PC (aside from freeing up some space!). You may as well just put the installer or portable version on the CD and run it to tidy up once you are back in.
no just use the portable version on the other builds site or switch it to use ini in advanced before burning it to cd (of course you'll also have to let it build the ini and copy the ini to the disc with ccleaner before burning)
Does the portable version load the correct registry or does it load the registry of the host OS.
Example: BartPE is on R Drive and the infected OS drive is D:
Which registry will CCleaner look at?
It will looks at whatever registry Bart PE has. and as i said even if you could convince (which you cant) ccleaner to see the other Registry, there would be likely many false positives as instead of the main drive being C: it is D: when loaded via boot disc.
And as marmite and I said CCleaner isnt a fixer, its a crap cleaner, it cleans junk files and temporary files, and invalid registry entries, not viruses or spyware.
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