As mentioned before each of the file cleanup programs and the registry
fixit programs each seem to find, delete, and fix different stuff. It
is a shame to have to run perhaps 6 different applications at startup
to do a thorough job of cleaning.
I think I will try the jv16 power tools and see, as I recall, if I can
specify each of the components or programs it runs when it automatic
action starts at startup -- including the intended successor to its
registry cleaner, reg cleaner (of all the names!). The latter seems
only to delete values. The former, as I recall looked through a lot of
keys and values, etc. but was very slow. I know some of the registry
fixit applications actually try to fix things -- such as finding the
correct path for an application pointed to in the wrong place.
As a teaser on another topic, I am finding some of the (quaint?) old
windows 3.1 utilities run fine and are surprisingly useful on, at
least win 98. XP and the like I do not know.
