Re: Registry Cleaner

Hi Ed:

What do you think you will accomplish by "cleaning out obsolete entries in the registry"? Okay, that's a trick question, because the answer is: nothing.

Forget registry cleaners. You should be worrying about personal files.
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Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

Ed wrote:
I have a computer that has WinXP Pro (up-to-date) on it. I'm going to give it to a relative but I first have to uninstall all of the software licensed to my company. After I un-install these applications, is there a reliable tool for cleaning out obsolete entries in the registry? Before XP, I used to run RegClean but I haven't found a satisfactory registry cleaner for XP yet.

I thought about just re-formatting the C drive and re-installing but this computer has an early retail copy of WinXP Pro. I don't want to to re-install and then try to figure out how to get SP2 in order to be able to use Windows Update to get the rest of the updates. I tried doing that with a WinXP Home computer a couple of months ago and had quite a few problems as a result.
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