RE: Windows registry cleanup tools - addendum

["Phil White" pdwhite@xxxxxxxx]

(I should have added this to my previous email.)

	There is also no substitute for software with install/uninstall
programs that do a good job of installing and removing registry entries
correctly. Unfortunately, this is the exception more than it is the rule.

	Lots of software uninstall routines leave a considerable amount of
rubbish in the registry; to the user the application just disappears. It is
this kind of sweeping the dirt under the rug that hard disk and registry
cleaners are needed to remove.

	FYI: A good application uninstall program will offer two kinds of
uninstall modes; namely automatic and custom (or advanced.) Automatic will
just remove the application, but will leave a lot of program libraries and
configuration setting on the system so the application can be reinstalled.
Advanced will usually remove modules that are not being used by other
applications, or display them and ask you to confirm with a "yes/no" option.

	Hope this helps explain the need for registry cleaners that help you
with the "loose ends."

		Phil

Philip D. White,
Senior Information Architect
University of Houston, CASA Testing Center

Phone: (713) 743-4135
Fax: (713) 743-8630
Email: pdwhite@xxxxxxxx


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xywrite@xxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-xywrite@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brian Henderson
Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 10:11
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Windows registry cleanup tools

-----Original Message----- From: J R FOX

> So, I would still be interested in any good
> recommendations for *safely* cleaning out the dead
> wood. (Miles of Winjunk Files on the hard drive,
> rather than junk inside the Registry. If the latter
> is not actually causing any actual harm, its removal
> is probably not urgent.)
>
>
> Jordan
>

Jordan, I think this is the sort of thing you're looking for:

Scrub Your Hard Drive Clean!
(Fifteen files in all! Five batch files that can free up anywhere from tens
to thousands of megabytes of otherwise-wasted disk space; files that most
Windows-based cleanup apps miss! Also includes Registry patches that can add
or remove the cleanup functions to your Recycle Bin menu; and "Program
information Files" to ensure the batch files properly interact with your
system.

http://langa.com/cleanup_bat.htm

-BrianH.
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