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Thanks again, Jim.Jim said:Hi Mike - Well, the problem, of course, is defining just what 'junk' is.
There are a wide variety of things in the Registry whose function is
obscure - sometimes deliberately so. To the naive observer (or Registry
Cleaner) they may appear to be 'junk', but in fact do have a purpose (even
if it's no more than serving as a placeholder in some cases) and removing
them will cause problems (unfortunately, usually at some later time when
there's no obvious reason to link the problem to the removals and when even
if you know to do so, doing a restore Merge from the Registry Cleaner will
_really_ screw things up). I have no objection in principle to cleaning
things out of the Registry - sometimes stuff needs to be (e.g. 'malware'), -
I just object to automatically deleting stuff without a demonstrated need.
"If it ain't broke . . ." usually applies, and most of the time even those
things in 'error' from an incomplete uninstall will cause no problems, while
eliminating them will gain little if anything in either speed or space.
When they do cause problems (for example, when trying to re-install
something that Norton screwed up on the initial install () , then,
Yes, use a good Registry Editor and proceed with caution to clean things up
(getting some help if you need to).
Mike Sa