Panic ?

[JAX]

For lack of anything more constructive to do, I ran one of those on-line
diagnostic things. (bug doctor) It reported some 15 errors in CLSID. I went
to Webopedia and they had no listing for the term. I also went to a MS site
and they showed where CLSID is in the registry but offered no explanation as
to what the significance of these keys is. I tried a couple more sources and
came up with no useful information.

Bug Doctor claims that this is a potential problem and offers to
automatically correct it if I buy their product. Can someone point me in
some direction to find more information on CLSID or tell me if this is
something I even need to be concerned about? I am not experiencing any
problems with my PC and I hope to keep it that way.

TIA JAX

 

[Kelly]

Hi Jax,

A CLSID is a globally unique identifier that identifies a COM class object.
If your server or container allows linking to its embedded objects, you need
to register a CLSID for each supported class of objects.

More information here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/com/htm/reg_6vjt.asp

Some are common throughout every version of Windows and some are self
generated via regedits, vbscripts, etc.

If you are no longer using Webopedia, it is safe to remove the CLSID.

Webopedia
http://www.webopedia.com/



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[David Candy]

You don't need to be concerned. It's an enourmous topic area that I barely understand the details (and I know a fair bit about it for a non C programmer). But each thing is an object of some type. It just list some objects you don't have a file for. But some are there in case the file gets installed.

It doesn't matter if you fix or not.

EG Word Docs, My Computer, a view of a folder, are all specified here with thousands and thousands of other things. Orphaned entries are common and unimportant.

Of course serious errors can occur here too, but you'd be wanting a fix for your problem not wondering if it's causing one. These programs don't fix serious problems. Regard it as a tidyness issue the reports.

 

[JAX]

Thank you Kelly,

From what I have gleaned, these are just keys to things in "My Favorites"
list and nothing to really be concerned about. Is that correct? The link you
offered is one of the places I went looking.

You and your web-site have been very helpful to me, keep up the good work.

JAX

 

[JAX]

Thank you once again David,

That is pretty much what I was able to gather from the sites I visited. I
wonder how many people buy those "fix it" programs just because the vender
says they need them.

JAX

You don't need to be concerned. It's an enourmous topic area that I barely
understand the details (and I know a fair bit about it for a non C
programmer). But each thing is an object of some type. It just list some
objects you don't have a file for. But some are there in case the file gets
installed.

It doesn't matter if you fix or not.

EG Word Docs, My Computer, a view of a folder, are all specified here with
thousands and thousands of other things. Orphaned entries are common and
unimportant.

Of course serious errors can occur here too, but you'd be wanting a fix for
your problem not wondering if it's causing one. These programs don't fix
serious problems. Regard it as a tidyness issue the reports.

 

[David Candy]

If memory is an issue (like 8 MB on 95) it good to do. But with current memory it's not worth the effort.

 

[JAX]

I'm running 512 MB, I think I'll forget about it!

JAX

If memory is an issue (like 8 MB on 95) it good to do. But with current
memory it's not worth the effort.

 

[Kelly]

You are most welcome and thank you, Jax for your closing comments.

I hadn't seen David's reply before I posted and totally missed your comment
about buy and fix. Stay away from those sorts.

How interesting that it would pick up only your Favorites, though. Not very
practical, but still interesting. Again, CLSID's are very important to
Windows and need to handled individually. Some are system set and some are
self generated by third party.

Good luck!



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