Registry Cleaner ActiveX/COM/â€¦ scan crippled in Vista?

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Registry Cleaner ActiveX/COM/… scan crippled in Vista?

With v 1.7.0.413 (and v 1.7.0.414), the ActiveX/COM/… scan found 3000+ lines on my XP Pro system and 2000+ on my son's W98SE system.

CCleaner finds several hundred "ActiveX/COM issues" on my Vista system.

On my Vista system, the Macecraft ActiveX/COM/… scan finds nothing.

Is it possible that tweaks for Vista in the new registry scanning engine cause it to skip over some errors in the ActiveX/COM/… scan?

There is some evidence here that such tweaks have caused Registry Finder not to find some registry items.

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In my case jv17tools found 188 "Medium Errors” described as "Invalid ActiveX/DDE/COM/DCOM/OLE item".

Last time I deleted this type of errors, I had to reinstall Vista. I would really like to understand how these ActiveX errors are scanned. I have tested more than 11 different registry programs, from the most sophisticated to the most basic. They all seem to disagree as to what the errors are for ActiveX/DDE/COM/DCOM/O.

I found two or three totally "safe" ActiveX error finders but they leave too many errors in the registry to even consider them as serious alternatives for a professional job.

If anyone can find the answer to this question, please let me know.

How can I check that a registry cleaner completely and effectively scans "ActiveX/COM/DCOM/OLE/DDE" with no false positives and no problems left unchecked? I am willing to buy a complete registry suite if only it does an excellent job in this area.