Registry Cleaner - Advanced options

brian49

When running Registry Cleaner, I have this advanced option checked: `Don't show items that would be automatically re-created'. How does this work, please? I find that some entries which escape this restriction are still re-created, if not immediately then within a day or two. `Useless' file extensions often seem to be involved, for example:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.wal

This is the file extension for Winamp Modern skins, whereas I no longer have Winamp installed and have removed all other traces of it from the registry. Many thanks.

lashiec

Theoretically, that option skips the MRU entries created by the programs, for example, the list of the most recent archives created by WinRAR. My guess is that PowerTools' Registry Cleaner is programmed to find certain string patterns like "Recent" or "Last". But I'm only a mere user, so my guess could go wrong :

Anyway, the ".wal" extension doesn't seem to be associated with that kind of MRU entries. Maybe you have some compression utility installed that has associated this extension, and it has an option to automatically re-register the file type if this one is deleted or "stealed" by other program. Coming to mind, I think TugZip has something like that. If you don't have any program like that, I really don't know. Is there someone with another clue?

tullik

Some application has to be reregistering the extension. Check here to see if any of the likely suspects are on your system.

brian49

Well sussed - it's in PowerArchiver's list of potential file associations, although I haven't in fact enabled that association. Thanks for the heads-up.