Compumind 0 Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 Hi all: Using CCleaner 3.20.1750 and prior versions, I have noticed that under the main Registry Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE There are many entires in my system for software that was removed a long time ago. Try as I might, I don't see any options for removing the dead stuff through CCleaner and had to do it all by hand. Is this a bug? TIA Link to post Share on other sites
pwillener 0 Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 They may be pointing to stuff that still exists on your system. Anyway, you shouldn't worry too much about the Windows registry; it doesn't really matter if it is a few bytes larger or smaller. Link to post Share on other sites
Moderators Andavari 2 Posted July 22, 2012 Moderators Share Posted July 22, 2012 If it's a completely empty key then CCleaner's registry cleaner may or will find it as invalid, however if there's any data/settings still stored in the key then CCleaner would leave it alone regardless of rather the software that created the key is still installed or uninstalled. That can actually cause many registry cleaners to leave a key alone! Link to post Share on other sites
Compumind 0 Posted July 22, 2012 Author Share Posted July 22, 2012 Thanks for the replies. Most of these keys are empty, but not all. Guess I would have expected that CCleaner should have picked the empty ones up. Even though these keys might be small, the idea is to clean the registry, right? IMO, CCleaner just needs a bit of tweaking, no biggie. Link to post Share on other sites
Moderators Andavari 2 Posted July 23, 2012 Moderators Share Posted July 23, 2012 The idea is to clean the registry but safely, and CCleaner is deemed by many to be "safer" to use than many other registry cleaning tools. There's more than enough aggressive registry cleaners which will dig deep into your system, but you'd have to use them with extreme caution and verify pretty much everything they want to remove. Link to post Share on other sites
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