Questioning Registry Cleaner Finding in 2.0.0.970

akajohndoe

I am seeing the entries shown in the attachment, but do not quite believe they are erroneous nor superfluous. Please advise.

redseujac

Except the first entry all others should refer to software which doesn't exist on your computer anymore: i.e. onOne software\PhotoTools 2.5. Is this correct?

akajohndoe

redseujac wrote
Except the first entry all others should refer to software which doesn't exist on your computer anymore: i.e. onOne software\PhotoTools 2.5. Is this correct?

That is the theory; however, the remaining entries refer to a Photoshop CS5 add-on that I do have installed.

jv16

AKAJohnDoe wrote
I am seeing the entries shown in the attachment, but do not quite believe they are erroneous nor superfluous. Please advise.

As far as I can tell, everything seems to be in order.

The first item is an empty string entry under the \Run key. Such an empty entry is not valid under that key, so it's considered an obsolete entry and safe to remove.

The other items are empty registry keys under the \Software key. The \Software key should not contain any empty data, so these are also considered as obsolete and safe to remove. Although the software in question (i.e. onOne PhotoTools) might be valid and installed to the computer, the registry data is not valid and should be safe to remove.

akajohndoe

jv16 wrote
AKAJohnDoe wroteI am seeing the entries shown in the attachment, but do not quite believe they are erroneous nor superfluous. Please advise.

As far as I can tell, everything seems to be in order.

The first item is an empty string entry under the \Run key. Such an empty entry is not valid under that key, so it's considered an obsolete entry and safe to remove.

The other items are empty registry keys under the \Software key. The \Software key should not contain any empty data, so these are also considered as obsolete and safe to remove. Although the software in question (i.e. onOne PhotoTools) might be valid and installed to the computer, the registry data is not valid and should be safe to remove.

I will go aeasd and remove the onOne entries, after backing them up; sometimes the presence of an emtpy key has meaning too, after all.

As for the RUN key, it does not appear to be empty. Take a look at this attachment.

jv16

AKAJohnDoe wrote

As for the RUN key, it does not appear to be empty. Take a look at this attachment.

What I mean was that the @ entry of the Run key is an empty value, and thus it (i.e. the entry, not the entire key) is considered as obsolete and safe to remove.

akajohndoe

jv16 wrote
AKAJohnDoe wrote

As for the RUN key, it does not appear to be empty. Take a look at this attachment.

What I mean was that the @ entry of the Run key is an empty value, and thus it (i.e. the entry, not the entire key) is considered as obsolete and safe to remove.

No, I do not believe that it is.

siliconman01

I suspect what is causing the detection is that the (Default) String Value has no data. It should have a "Data" value of (value not set). If you right click on (Default) and delete it, Windows will automatically add it(Default) back in with a data value of (value not set). Letting jv16 delete it will result in the same result. Below is a link that shows what (Default) should be:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File.png

jv16

siliconman01 wrote
I suspect what is causing the detection is that the (Default) String Value has no data. It should have a "Data" value of (value not set). If you right click on (Default) and delete it, Windows will automatically add it(Default) back in with a data value of (value not set). Letting jv16 delete it will result in the same result. Below is a link that shows what (Default) should be:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File.png

Exactly.

akajohndoe

Yes. That has it. Thanks for your help.