registry advice

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Hi,
I would like to know that if I uninstall an application would it be useful
to restore the registry to a state previous to when that application was
installed or am I clutching at straws? THx
 
Mani said:
Hi,
I would like to know that if I uninstall an application would it be useful
to restore the registry to a state previous to when that application was
installed or am I clutching at straws? THx
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The uninstall process should do this automatically. However,
if you don't trust it and if you do have an suitable restore
point then you can use the system restore function.
 
The difficulty with Sys restore is that it doesn't keep many days' worth of
restore points, but perhaps using registry backup to restore would be
'dangerous'.

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Mani

I delve in the registry at least 5 days a week since 1997 & do a lot of
programming using the registry etc. too.

Many uninstall programs leave registry keys instact or partially deleted
(leaving the top-level key there)

My advice is don't bother restoring it to a previous state because not only
does it hold info on your installed apps, but if you have an application you
have not needed to install, but have run the chances are that there are
registry keys referrring to that & then you have lost that type of info too.
Example: All 'System Interals' (now Microsoft) apps that you run add info to
the registry & so does HijackThis, but that also adds itself to the
add/remove program list too

So, you see you would be constantly restoring your registry if you do that.
However, you could edit the registry yourself & keep the
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE & HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE clean of redundant
keys 'IF' you know what you are doing, but forget it if you don't

Hope this helps,
 
Daave,

All those are are just uninstallers only that replace the add/remove
application. I wrote one myself in 2004 or 2005 which is available for
download (source code) on the Microsoft website
 
Mani said:
The difficulty with Sys restore is that it doesn't keep many days' worth of
restore points, but perhaps using registry backup to restore would be
'dangerous'.
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Little is to be gained from keeping System Restore points for more
than two weeks (you can set things to keep more if you have a large
enough hard drive!).
 
Daave,

All those are are just uninstallers only that replace the add/remove
application. I wrote one myself in 2004 or 2005 which is available for
download (source code) on the Microsoft website
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Why don't you write on that will quote the post you are replying to!??
 
Grumpy,

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Mani said:
Hi,
I would like to know that if I uninstall an application would it be useful
to restore the registry to a state previous to when that application was
installed or am I clutching at straws? THx
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