Registry scan keeps finding an obsolete software key called ChangeTracker

[mart89]

Hi,

The registry scan on CCleaner has recently started picking up an obsolete software key entry called ChangeTracker.

I'm on Windows 11 & this has started in the last couple of weeks.

I havent installed any new software & in CCleaner if i select 'fix all selected issues' the entry clears itself, but on reboot the exact same obsolete software key entry called ChangeTracker is back.

I have gone into the registry directly & can verify that this obsolete software key vanishes when fixed, then reappears on reboot.

The same thing happens when i delete this obsolete software key manually in windows registry (I have full permissions over the file & it lets me delete it), but on reboot its back there again.

Virus & malware scans reveal nothing on my system.

Is anyone else seeing this Obsolete Software Key called ChangeTracker on Windows 11 when you do a CCleaner registry scan?

I have tried it on two different windows 11 computers & both of them do exactly the same thing & show an Obsolete Software Key called ChangeTracker.

Is anyone else getting this on a Windows 11 computer?

Any ideas what it is or how to fix it?

 

[nukecad]

Windows is constantly changing the registry these days - which is why it's unwise to use a Registry Cleaner unless you are trying to fix a specific problem.

As you are seeing the same thing on two machines then that suggests that it's something new that Windows is putting there and CCleaner doesn't know what it is so flags it up.

There are a number of reg entries that CCleaner will flag/remove and Windows will put straight back.

The fact that if you delete it then it comes back only reinforces that it's something Windows wants to be there.

As you say "the last couple of weeks" then I suspect it's  something new added by the January Windows updates.

[mart89]

Thanks for getting back to me on this, appreciated!!

Looks like that Obsolete Software Key 'ChangeTracker' notification is probably going to be one of those ongoing registry detections in CCleaner like the 'ToastNotifier' one which has now been there for months & months.

[nukecad]

I wouldn't be surprised at all if it's going to be another "SpeechRuntime.exe".

They just point up that Windows now changes the registry a lot - and that registry cleaning is not something to be done as a routine but only when trying to fix something already broken.

[tlochner]

same problem as you, it deletes, but comes back after a few minutes!

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