why does registry cleaner not do a thorough job?

desoto5014

I have never gotten a registry health score above 98 of 100 even after running registry cleaner.

rdtmk5

Getting that magic 100 can, at times, be a challenge. Do not despair, though! Have you run Registry Cleaner using the most aggressive cleaning policy? That should help. Additionally, there are registry keys and entries that Registry Cleaner cannot delete because the programs that install them set their permissions to prevent deletion. PowerTools will usually indicate those entries when you try to delete them after a scan. On my system, Adobe Acrobat is the biggest such offender. If I really want to get rid of such entries, I manually reset their permissions to allow me to delete them myself - I use Registry Workshop, but you can also use Regedit. Do this carefully - you can disable programs or your system if you're not careful. If you decide to go this route, research registry entry permissions (or something similar) on Google and get a little smarter on the process. I have found that these types of 'latent' registry contents will prevent PowerTools from indicating a Registry Health score of 100.

redseujac

rdtmk5 wrote
... I have found that these types of 'latent' registry contents will prevent PowerTools from indicating a Registry Health score of 100.

Maybe, but even without cleaning such entries, I normally obtain the 100 score.

Engine settings: "More aggressive than normal cleaning policy" (3rd little dash from the top). "List MRU..." not checked, but ran History Cleaner separately.