![]() ![]() cab file?", then you probably do not have enough know-how to use a reg cleaner. The bottom line is, if you cannot answer the question, "What is a. As I already have utilities that perform this function, I chose not to keep it. I did install this program on an XP sp2 system and it seemed to run fine. A utility like this will allow the knowledgeable user to go in and surgically remove keys and other values that may have gotten corrupted for what ever reason. You see, one reason to use such a program is to take care of a bad/faulty install. However, if you are the type of user who has built their own system, (as I have many times), and who does explore all of the above and beyond, then a reg cleaning utility will come in handy. ![]() If you are just an average user, (an average user is someone who runs applications from their desktop, but does not explore the processes that they use, nor do they explore the system hidden files or even the folders they are in, nor do they read and understand any of the windows updates that are downloaded), any reg cleaning program is NOT for you. To all of the great users, (and not-so-great), most of us know what the dangers are with ANY reg cleaning utility. I would love to be a fly on the wall to see how you decide what is next. Maybe this will help some of you decide whether to try it. Sorry I didn't get a chance earlier in the day to try it and give a review. I consider myself an intermediate user in some areas and advanced in some software applications, but I try not to mess with the registry. Even though the majority were easy to recognize, I could have spent even more time agonizing over which entries it was OK to remove and probably would have left a LOT of them that were safe to remove. If I had tried to remove all of these manually, it would have taken me 3-4 hours. There were also some entries for a few other programs I had removed and for ActiveX files. Most of this was for MS Office, which I removed from my system about a week ago-many I wouldn't have known to remove because they are listed under a Windows Installer path. Software Section - All User (435) Current User (173) These items were found (but about 30-40 were marked as possibly unsafe to remove although some were only because they were references to a path on a removable disk and probably OK to remove, I didn't remove them this time): I didn't know that was even in the registry.Ĥ0 minutes for me to check the list of registry problemsĥ minutes to remove entries marked as safe to remove Under Components Subsystem I checked only Invalid Paths I checked everything else but IE URL History, which I figured would take forever. My system: XP SP2 700MHz processor 512 MB RAM 16GB of used disk space. To me, Wise Registry Cleaner 3 Pro is a great program, well worth trying. ![]()
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