Reg Cleaner - "fixes" Useless registry entries?

tullik

Registry Cleaner - "fixes" Useless registry entries … ?

A raw list aggressive scan (v 1.7.0.411):

1. showed four lines for the …\Applets\Wordpad\Recent File List as "Useless registry entries"

2. the lines were HKCU/HKUS twins (duplicates) for just two file entries which do exist on C:\

3. the entry names were File3 and File4

4. "Fix" caused the four entries to point to backup copies on G:\

5. a rescan showed the same items now pointing to G:\

6. "Fix" caused the four entries to point to another backup copy on D:\

7. a rescan showed the same items now pointing to D:\

8. "Fix" caused the four entries to point to backup copies on G:\

9. a rescan showed the same items now pointing to G:\

10. I stopped -- it is apparently not possible to "fix" a "Useless registry entry" :

The "Fix" actually causes the wordpad drop down list to reference the WRONG copies of the files …

jv16

This problem is fixed in the next version, thank you for reporting. The next version will be released later today.

rangerbob

I am very concerned about the vast number of items being located since 411 and now 413 have been released. I have being doing aggressive scans since I installed jv16 and I have never had numbers like I am seeing now. The scan I just ran located

High 68

Medium 7571

Low 1519

Lowest 92

If I run a non aggressive scan the result are very similar to what I use to get with my aggressive scan post 411 version.

tullik

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rangerbob

Thank you for your reply. Yes the MRU scan has increased the number of entries that have been found with version 411 and 413. On my system it was around 1200 entries but the truly large number and what is really concerning me is the ActiveX scan which I just ran and it found 7434 entries. This was a stand alone ActiveX scan, nothing else marked in the scan. This is too large a number of entries to check each one before removal to make sure it is ok to remove them. I guess I will backup my system then do the removal to be on the safe side.

tullik

Ranger Bob wrote
... but the truly large number and what is really concerning me is the ActiveX scan which I just ran and it found 7434 entries. This was a stand alone ActiveX scan, nothing else marked in the scan. ...

That is amazing ... I get zero hits with the ActiveX scan.

If I had that many, I'd do a raw format scan, then delete and backup in groups. For one example, Select-->By frequent column data-->Error description-->whatever ...

tullik

tullik wrote
Ranger Bob wrote... but the truly large number and what is really concerning me is the ActiveX scan which I just ran and it found 7434 entries. This was a stand alone ActiveX scan, nothing else marked in the scan. ...

That is amazing ... I get zero hits with the ActiveX scan.

If I had that many, I'd do a raw format scan, then delete and backup in groups. For one example, Select-->By frequent column data-->Error description-->whatever ...

That was on my Vista system.

On my XP Pro system, v 1.7.0.414 found nearly 3900 lines in the ActiveX/... scan.

I'm removing them now in groups (with backup, of course). It's taking a half second per line -- unless it gets faster, that's about an hour ...

Added note: It sped up - took 26 minutes to do 3386 lines. I'm going to see if v 1.7.0.413 finds the rest … later: it did, 468 lines.