Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Sun May 31 17:57:28 CDT 2009
You can always try the ActiveXhelper (http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/axhelper.html), that Gustav mentioned a couple of weeks ago, when making a decision to remove or not to remove some odd ActiveX component from the Registry. Together with ccleaner, that should remove a lot of junk. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 3:25 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Junk in the Registry OK, but in case of what? What's always bothered me about that is - what happens if you clean and have a problem which doesn't show up until a week later? Can you just restore the old registry? I mean, what happens to like software that you've installed or upgraded since then - especially stuff that you don't really know all the details of like windows updates? I tried Ccleaner once but it scared me. If I could get it to clean just those History and Domains folders that's probably be a big load out of my registry. Rocky -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jon Tydda Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 3:16 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Junk in the Registry CCleaner is good for removing all kinds of junk. Make sure you do a backup of the registry (in the options) before you delete, just in case. Jon -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin Sent: 31 May 2009 23:07 To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Junk in the Registry Further - in the folder called Domains, under the folder called ZoneMap, which is in InternetSettings, there are probably a couple thousand of these *.com keys. Is there an orderly way to delete them? (I use Firefox, btw). MTIA again, Rocky -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 3:00 PM To: List Subject: [dba-Tech] Junk in the Registry Dear List: I had an occasion to scan my registry for something and I see a whole lot of keys with a .com extension - tried a few in the browser and they don't link to anything. A couple of them are identified as attack sites. What's the best way to get rid of the junk - dangerous or otherwise? MTIA Rocky _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com