Skype Activex/Com issues - Safe to fix?

[JG Seven]

Hello all,

 

Pretty straightforward: are the following issues safe to fix?

 

I know I can make backups before actually attempting to fix the issues, but I'd rather ask here first.

[Aethec]

No offense intended, but if you are asking here something about the Registry Cleaner, you shouldn't use it. "Useless" reg keys won't degrade performance or whatever, unless you have serious problems (e.g. a program that failed to uninstall)

[Ishi]

Make a system restore point prior to the cleaning and make a backup of the registry using a program called Erunt.

 

I do believe that useless or corrupt registry keys degrade the computer's performance in contrary to Aethec but with only a few of them, its almost impossible to tell that removing them would improve performance. However many more useless or corrupt registry keys would in deed slow down the performance to an extent.

[Aethec]

Make a system restore point prior to the cleaning and make a backup of the registry using a program called Erunt.

 

I do believe that useless or corrupt registry keys degrade the computer's performance in contrary to Aethec but with only a few of them, its almost impossible to tell that removing them would improve performance. However many more useless or corrupt registry keys would in deed slow down the performance to an extent.

 

Unless the said reg keys are really corrupt (i.e. they should contain valid data, have programs wanting for them, but don't have any valid data in them) and not simply "forgotten" after an uninstall or something, it won't degrade the computer's performance.

[Andavari]

If Skype is still installed I'd ignore those registry issues, otherwise you might very well have to reinstall Skype.

[JG Seven]

Thanks for the replies, everyone.

 

I think I'll just ignore those entries (add to the exclude list) like Andavari suggested. I'd rather not risk messing it up.

[Ishi]

Unless the said reg keys are really corrupt (i.e. they should contain valid data, have programs wanting for them, but don't have any valid data in them) and not simply "forgotten" after an uninstall or something, it won't degrade the computer's performance.

There is no absolute claim that it will or will not degrade the computer's performance.

[pwillener]

There is no absolute claim that it will or will not degrade the computer's performance.

Unused, forgotten, left-over, orphan registry keys may make the registry files a few KB larger, but they have no effect whatsoever on the computer's, or Windows, or applications performance.