Cartaphilus Posted November 25, 2005 Share Posted November 25, 2005 OK, I'm sure this has been discussed many times, and as a newbie to CCleaner and the forum I apologize for rehashing it. But I've googled the topic and still haven't gotten a decent understanding of what it is and what it means: (A) What is a "missing shared dll"? ( What does having one (or several) imply for software? © How did a dll come up missing in the first place? (D) If I'm missing so many of the <expletive-deleted> things, how come I don't see any problems when running apps, and (E) When CCleaner finds these things, should I let it whisk the references away? TIA... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenknight Posted November 25, 2005 Share Posted November 25, 2005 Since I was sure this had been discussed before, too, I did a little search. I found a thread with a good explanation of this, and it turned out that it was one I had posted in. No wonder I was so sure! Anyway, read this: CCleaner Forums -> Missing Shared DLLs http://forum.ccleaner.com/index.php?showtopic=1050&hl= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cartaphilus Posted November 26, 2005 Author Share Posted November 26, 2005 Since I was sure this had been discussed before, too, I did a little search. I found a thread with a good explanation of this, and it turned out that it was one I had posted in. No wonder I was so sure! Anyway, read this: CCleaner Forums -> Missing Shared DLLs http://forum.ccleaner.com/index.php?showtopic=1050&hl= 22879[/snapback] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cartaphilus Posted November 26, 2005 Author Share Posted November 26, 2005 22931[/snapback] Thanks, Greenknight. So I'm making a couple of assumptions here: first, what the entry in CCleaner really means is that the program found a registry reference to a shared dll that no longer exists. Secondly, when you let CCleaner take care of these, it is deleting the registry value. And when you say "That's why you back them up first", you mean that's why you back up the registry before letting CCleaner modify it. BTW, Win95 isn't the only O/S that produces a lot of these puppies. WinXP has it's share too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenknight Posted November 26, 2005 Share Posted November 26, 2005 You got it figured out pretty well. I actually meant having CCleaner make backups of the entries it deletes. I don't actually back up everything anymore, but if something comes up that I'm not totally sure about, I back it up. These are just extra backups, I have the entire registry backed up daily by ERUNT. I'm on XP myself, so I know what you mean. If you uninstall a couple programs, there'll be a whole bunch of those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now