My XP system is getting more and more clogged at boot up/down,
and I suspect it's an ever-increasing registry at the root of the
problem.

I install/uninstall quite a bit of software, and I don't believe
all the outdated registry keys are being removed.

I already run things like JV tools, easycleaner, and a few
others, and frankly have not seen much performance increase from
them. What I'm wondering about is if there's a tool that will
monitor what keys are created and will remove them upon uninstall
of a particular program. It may or may not work retroactively,
but it seems it's something I need to start doing.

Thanks,
Paul

"Paul B." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:6Zmee.8498$Rl6.1494@trndny08...

<extract>What I'm wondering about is if there's a tool that will
monitor what keys are created and will remove them upon uninstall
of a particular program. It may or may not work retroactively,
but it seems it's something I need to start doing.</extract>.

Google for "Total Uninstall".
Get in the habit of monitoring each and every installation with the above.
Then you can remove it all, subsequently.
HTH.

Phoenix wrote:
> "Paul B." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:6Zmee.8498$Rl6.1494@trndny08...
>
> <extract>What I'm wondering about is if there's a tool that will
> monitor what keys are created and will remove them upon uninstall
> of a particular program. It may or may not work retroactively,
> but it seems it's something I need to start doing.</extract>.
>
> Google for "Total Uninstall".
> Get in the habit of monitoring each and every installation with the above.
> Then you can remove it all, subsequently.
> HTH.

Thanks, looks like exactly what I had in mind. Wish I had been
using it for the past year or so, but will start now.

Paul

>On Thu, 05 May 2005 10:56:02 GMT, "Paul B." wrote:

>My XP system is getting more and more clogged at boot up/down,
>and I suspect it's an ever-increasing registry at the root of the
>problem.
>
>I install/uninstall quite a bit of software, and I don't believe
>all the outdated registry keys are being removed.
>
>I already run things like JV tools, easycleaner, and a few
>others, and frankly have not seen much performance increase from
>them. What I'm wondering about is if there's a tool that will
>monitor what keys are created and will remove them upon uninstall
>of a particular program. It may or may not work retroactively,
>but it seems it's something I need to start doing.
>
=======================================================================
Total Uninstall can help you to monitor any changes that were made to
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to perform a complete uninstall without having to rely on the supplied
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To use it, you simply launch the installation program from the Total
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=========================================================================
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========================================================================
MyUninstaller v1.32
Alternative to the standard add/remove control panel module
Copyright (c) 2003 - 2005 Nir Sofer

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===========
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Important Notice
================
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=======
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==========
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========================================================================

"Paul B." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:6Zmee.8498$Rl6.1494@trndny08...
> My XP system is getting more and more clogged at boot up/down, and I
> suspect it's an ever-increasing registry at the root of the problem.
>
> I install/uninstall quite a bit of software, and I don't believe all the
> outdated registry keys are being removed.
>
> I already run things like JV tools, easycleaner, and a few others, and
> frankly have not seen much performance increase from them. What I'm
> wondering about is if there's a tool that will monitor what keys are
> created and will remove them upon uninstall of a particular program. It
> may or may not work retroactively, but it seems it's something I need to
> start doing.

Total Uninstall is a great program for uninstalling programs that were
installed with it. For your immediate problem, you might want to try
CCleaner http://www.ccleaner.com/ to safely clean up some outstanding issues
with your registry. Also you could use WinPatrol http://winpatrol.com/ to
control what programs are allowed to start up with Windows.

Sometimes spyware, adware or other types of malware might be responsible for
slowing down a computer. Indeed programs that install these things would
probably not uninstall it afterwards. You can check what programs are
installed on your computer with Belarc Advisor
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html . Make regular use of programs like
Spybot Search & Destroy http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html ,
Ad-Aware http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ , and Microsoft's
Windows Anti Spyware (Beta)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...powertoys.mspx to
remove these nasties. Also recommended is a2 Free (free to use after
registration) http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/ to detect and remove
Trojans and Worms. Of course an anti-virus program is also a necessity these
days.


HTH

The Six Million Dollar Man wrote:

>
> "Paul B." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:6Zmee.8498$Rl6.1494@trndny08...
> > My XP system is getting more and more clogged at boot up/down, and
> > I suspect it's an ever-increasing registry at the root of the
> > problem.
> >
> > I install/uninstall quite a bit of software, and I don't believe
> > all the outdated registry keys are being removed.
> >
> > I already run things like JV tools, easycleaner, and a few others,
> > and frankly have not seen much performance increase from them. What
> > I'm wondering about is if there's a tool that will monitor what
> > keys are created and will remove them upon uninstall of a
> > particular program. It may or may not work retroactively, but it
> > seems it's something I need to start doing.
>
> Total Uninstall is a great program for uninstalling programs that
> were installed with it. For your immediate problem, you might want to
> try CCleaner http://www.ccleaner.com/ to safely clean up some
> outstanding issues with your registry. Also you could use WinPatrol
> http://winpatrol.com/ to control what programs are allowed to start
> up with Windows.
>
> Sometimes spyware, adware or other types of malware might be
> responsible for slowing down a computer. Indeed programs that install
> these things would probably not uninstall it afterwards. You can
> check what programs are installed on your computer with Belarc
> Advisor http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html . Make regular use
> of programs like Spybot Search & Destroy
> http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html , Ad-Aware
> http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ , and Microsoft's
> Windows Anti Spyware (Beta)
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...ppowertoys.msp
> x to remove these nasties. Also recommended is a2 Free (free to use
> after registration) http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/ to
> detect and remove Trojans and Worms. Of course an anti-virus program
> is also a necessity these days.
>
>
> HTH

Valuable advise, and add to that SpywareBlaster for immunization and
SpywareGuard (although not updated for quite some time still valuable)
and you can stay out of trouble quite nicely. Both programs I mentioned
can be found at http://www.javacoolsoftware.com

Dick

On Thu, 05 May 2005 12:42:06 GMT, Mel wrote:

> Total Uninstall can help you to monitor any changes that were made to
> your system during installation of a new software product.

Good stuff but one caveat. It will suck down your machine post install
(always run the app) when it completes the tracking and pre-install when it
does its initial scan.

The Six Million Dollar Man wrote:

> Total Uninstall is a great program for uninstalling programs that were
> installed with it. For your immediate problem, you might want to try
> CCleaner http://www.ccleaner.com/ to safely clean up some outstanding issues
> with your registry. Also you could use WinPatrol http://winpatrol.com/ to
> control what programs are allowed to start up with Windows.
>
> Sometimes spyware, adware or other types of malware might be responsible for
> slowing down a computer. Indeed programs that install these things would
> probably not uninstall it afterwards. You can check what programs are
> installed on your computer with Belarc Advisor
> http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html . Make regular use of programs like
> Spybot Search & Destroy http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html ,
> Ad-Aware http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ , and Microsoft's
> Windows Anti Spyware (Beta)
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...powertoys.mspx to
> remove these nasties. Also recommended is a2 Free (free to use after
> registration) http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/ to detect and remove
> Trojans and Worms. Of course an anti-virus program is also a necessity these
> days.
>
>
> HTH

CCleaner is definitely take no prisoners... Caught some stuff the
others missed. Will see if there's a noticeable difference in
boot time.

Thanks for all the references.

Paul

Mel wrote:

Thanks. Total Uninstall is the only one I see that really takes
control of the process rather than merely enhancing the
indigenous one.

Paul

On Thu, 5 May 2005 12:23:57 +0100, "Phoenix" <(E-Mail Removed)>
typed furiously:

>"Paul B." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:6Zmee.8498$Rl6.1494@trndny08...
>
><extract>What I'm wondering about is if there's a tool that will
>monitor what keys are created and will remove them upon uninstall
>of a particular program. It may or may not work retroactively,
>but it seems it's something I need to start doing.</extract>.
>
>Google for "Total Uninstall".
>Get in the habit of monitoring each and every installation with the above.
>Then you can remove it all, subsequently.
>HTH.
>
When using the free version 2.35 make sure that you specify other
folders if you have more than one drive. e.g. I have c: to f: drives.
I had to specify that I wanted it to monitor d:\;e:\;f:\ in the other
folders box before it would scan any drive other than c:

I am not sure if it scans win.ini etc. as yet. These might need to be
added somehow.

The only other program (Remove-It95{not free}) I have used for this
purpose scanned all drives, registry and .ini files without needing to
be prompted.

--
David
Remove "farook" to reply
At the bottom of the application where it says
"sign here". I put "Sagittarius"