CCleaner Registry finds

[Alan_B]

Well i uninstalled SP3 & all hell broke loose.

My System Restore broke, just didn't work at all, no calendar, nothing!, i couldn't send emails in Outlook Express, my Messenger kept wanting to be fixed, my CCleaner was uninstalled totally, my browser wouldn't let me do anything at all, like send links!!

My IE version 8 i downloaded was deleted, my

 

I backed up using ERUNT & thank god it worked, back to normal, apart from sound!!

 

so

 

I could be wrong, but I would not expect System Restore to have the ability to re-instate SP3 after you uninstalled it,

hence you cannot go back to a previous date, and therefore the calender will not offer you any dates.

There are simple procedures to re-instate System Restore, but ERUNT is no applicable in this case.

 

It is probable that the System Restore calender information is held in the registry,

therefore restoring the pre-removal ERUNT backup to the registry may repopulate the calendar,

but I am sure that if you attempt to restore you will either get an error message or a BSOD.

 

WARNING

 

Most applications will add stuff into the registry when they are installed,

and when they are un-installed they may attempt to take it out again, give or take a bit.

 

Things are never quite the same after an application has been installed and then uninstalled,

which is why I far prefer when testing an application to have Acronis make a Disc image before,

and if I do not like the application I do not bother to uninstall - instead Acronis restores the image.

 

I believe Patch Tuesday updates also affect the registry, and SP3 doubly so.

 

Uninstalling SP3 removed/changed a lot of registry keys and values.

Uninstalling SP3 immediately after installing has a fair chance of putting it back fairly well given a bit of luck.

Uninstalling SP3 some time after significant use of a system with SP3 is likely to be less accurate.

 

Any installation of any applications and security patches with SP3 present will affect the registry, probably altering some keys and values that have been added to or altered by SP3.

Uninstalling SP3 will cause collateral damage if it removes what other recent stuff shares.

 

The collateral damage may have badly affected the registry and the files and folders.

I can believe that some aspects of the computer operation were crippled by the registry,

and restoring the ERUNT backup could have cured them,

BUT it will have caused the registry to aim for DLLs and things that are now removed.

I have seen conflicting advice upon whether such a system will dive in a black hole, or suffer sporadic/startup slowdown, or merely perform as standard.

 

I STRONGLY recommend that you do NOT fix registry issues without getting expert advice,

but please do a Registry Scan for issues.

I had many thousands of "Missing Shared DLLs" after I removed .NET Framework 2,

and a few dozen remained after re-installing - so I cured by restoring the Acronis image made before this escapade.

 

I suggest that you COUNT the "Missing Shared DLLs" only, with the 12 other "Registry Integrity" issues unchecked,

and then repeat for each of the other 12 issues one at a time.

Then post the results - you will probably then get expert advice upon :-

possible problems that are pending unless you take corrective action ;

recommendations upon appropriate fixes (hopefully not a re-install of Windows itself).

 

Do not look to me for expert advice on this.

My specialist subject is Murphy's Law.

 

Regards

Alan