jv16 Power Tools 1.3 Expired

[Bob Adkins]

The registry is a house of cards anyway that eventually turns into a roach motel
of unused entries - BACKUP-BACKUP-BACKUP!

Perfectly well said!

Bob

 

[Gord McFee]

In <[email protected]>, on Sat, 03 Jan 2004 08:19:41 GMT,

Eek! I'm glad that you did backup. XP and Norton must be far different
than what I have, 98SE, MS Word Suite and freewares. I hope the zeal
I've expressed doesn't cause anyone any grief. It works perfectly here
on my machine. I hoped and assumed it would work equally well on other
machines.

To be fair, Regseeker says on the very first screen that incorrectly
editing the registry "may severely damage your system" and the option
"backup before deletion" is checked by default. It also says on the
same screen: "At the very least, you should back up any valued data on
the computer before making changes to the registry".

In seeing this result most definitely backup the registry files as
John did before attempting the full cleanup!
Absolutely.

Has anyone else experienced any problems with RegSeeker? If so, what
OS are you using?

Since I started this, I use Windows 2000. I obtained 670 hits and then
posted here. I followed the advice of some of the posters here, who
said to go through them, accept the deletions I was *absolutely* sure of
(e.g., a program that I have uninstalled, etc.), and not delete the
rest. That pared the list down to 120. Then I went through the 120 and
found that most of them were useless as well (invalid paths, endings not
used, etc.). That got the list down to 12. Then I said, after backing
up the registry, "what the hell?" and deleted the last 12 and rebooted.
No problems.

 

[John Hood]

Perfectly well said!

Bob

To All;

Thanks for the tips on RegSeeker. I have been using and recommending
the ToniArts Easycleaner for a while, but I'm going to give this a try.
John H. E-mail: (e-mail address removed) Website: John's Best of Freeware:
http://home.wi.rr.com/johnhood/freeware/

 

[Libor Striz]

On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 09:07:59 GMT, Jordan wrote:

I pretty much save most versions of software I've downloaded, and I found
the JV16 v 1.0.0.124 setup file on my hard drive. I might have to install
that. But, I can probably get by with RegCleaner as that's the
functionality I used most in JV16.

As I mentioned elsewhere, JV16 1.3 build 195 did not expire....

 

[John]

There were about the same number of entries on this system. I went
through the list (doesn't take as long as you would expect) and
deleted only those that I knew were worthless. No problems resulted.

I use RegSeeker , the same as jv16 Power Tools , only deleting the
Green entries .

RegSeeker
Left click to highlight , hold the Shift key down , to highlght bulk
Green entries .
Right click to delete .

jv16 PowerTools
Click on Registry Tool > Tools > Registry Cleaner > Continue > Start .
When finished , Click on Select > Special select > Items that should
be safe to remove > Remove.

Here is another cleaner I have been using for 4 years without problems
..
OleClean ( Freeware . I tick all the boxes in Options ) from ,
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=oleclean
http://www.geocities.com/maurizioferreira/oleclean.html
http://users.aol.com/axcel216/toy.htm
FREE 9x/NT/2000/ME/XP SYSTEM + REGISTRY FIXERS
http://www.majorgeeks.com/showfiles.php?cat=15

 

[tfog]

Why not EXCLUDE Ghost, and re-run RegSeeker and purge all the registry
fragments again?

Bob

Per Bob's suggestion, add this to the exclude.ini file
2|SOFTWARE\Symantec\Norton Ghost\GhostShortcuts
Backup registry before trying the exclusion!

 

[Bob Adkins]

Here is another cleaner I have been using for 4 years without problems
.
OleClean

John,

Meaning you can trust it 99% to choose only junk that is safe to delete?

Bob

 

[Phred]

I use RegSeeker , the same as jv16 Power Tools , only deleting the
Green entries .

RegSeeker
Left click to highlight , hold the Shift key down , to highlght bulk
Green entries .
Right click to delete .

jv16 PowerTools
Click on Registry Tool > Tools > Registry Cleaner > Continue > Start .
When finished , Click on Select > Special select > Items that should
be safe to remove > Remove.

Here is another cleaner I have been using for 4 years without problems
..
OleClean ( Freeware . I tick all the boxes in Options ) from ,
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=oleclean
http://www.geocities.com/maurizioferreira/oleclean.html
http://users.aol.com/axcel216/toy.htm
FREE 9x/NT/2000/ME/XP SYSTEM + REGISTRY FIXERS
http://www.majorgeeks.com/showfiles.php?cat=15

I assume none of these things is much good if you have to use all
three to get the job done? ;-)


Cheers, Phred.

 

[Richard Steven Hack]

I ran Regseeker, it found almost 2000 entries in my huge bloated
Registry, all most all of them were non-existent files and
directories. Deleted them all since I wasn't going to go through all
that individually. No problems so far. I did check the backup
option, though.

Another reason I like Linux - no single point of failure like the
Registry. The only thing close to the Registry on Linux is the rpm
repository - which is only for package management, and has no effect
on the system.