JV16 Power Tools 2007 Beta will not clean registry

ymv13

I installed Vista this week and found that JV16 2006 will not clean the registry, so I downloaded the Beta version.

However, it still finds 800+ entries but will not remove them. I have uninstalled and reinstalled, but still no joy.

Any ideas?

Thank you.

Yvonne

tullik

Look here.

jv16

Does the Beta2 show an error message telling why it can't remove the items? This is a new feature of Beta2, it's not present in any previous versions (inc. Beta1 and jv16 PowerTools 2006).

ymv13

I get the error message, "access is denied".

From the previous post by tullik, I have checked the permissions and everything for all users and administrators is set to "Allow"

Yvonne

jv16

ymv13 wrote

From the previous post by tullik, I have checked the permissions and everything for all users and administrators is set to "Allow"

Permissions of what? The Registry? The File System?

ymv13

The permissions to run the programme by checking the programme properties. Everything is set to "allow".

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ymv13

I've opened up Regedit and added "Everyone" to each section in the left hand panel and checked full control (as per the article in the link), but Power Tools beta still will not delete anything from the registry cleaner :

Yvonne

curt

You are wasting your time trying to give permissions to registry entries just so jv16 PowerTools 2007 can delete them. I have been through this before with Windows Vista for the last year and a half. Just add them to the ignore list and report these to Jouni so the program won't keep looking for these entries in jv16 PowerTools 2007 RTM. For some reason Microsoft does not want us users to remove these particular registry entries. I sent a bug report months ago to the Windows Vista Beta team about this and there is not much you can do about it now. Sorry dude!!

PS- You have to "Allow" everyone and every registry key. You have not tried hard enough to give full permissions yet it seems. After you do this PowerTools will find more stuff and then you might have junk for Windows Vista (not a finely tuned computer!!) Like I said above, you are wasting yours and Jouni's time telling him this.

I am using Longhorn Server Build 6001 now myself and jv16 PowerTools 2007 Beta 2. It works fine for me. I am not a "New User" as it says next to my name "Curt" - that's for sure!!

mezencevryah

Hello Curt,

You wrote: "I sent a bug report months ago to the Windows Vista Beta team about this and there is not much you can do about it now." I have also sent such a report to Windows Vista beta team. I have proposed that Microsoft uses Windows Update to clean our register from all these garbage ! MR:-)

tullik

Unremovable registry items

In PT2007 RC2, it seems jv is programmatically skipping much of the unremovable stuff (whether MS garbage or actually functional for MS … whatever).

For examples, see the "TrustedInstaller" discussion here, here, and here.