beware of the updates you install

Ccleaner.exe. Used it several times, and it cleanly removes the remnants of uninstalled software.

Only for programs uninstalled with Revo Uninstaller, not for previously removed programs.

You're welcome. It has saved me many hours of labor, when cleaning up donated computers.

It also lets you choose what you want to look for.

Kind regards

Peter Larsen

On Sat, 23 Nov 2013 04:43:24 -0500 "Michael A. Terrell" wrote in article

I endorse Revo, too. You have to be a little careful about its registry cleanup if you choose the more "aggressive" post-uninstall scanning options; it can propose to delete stuff that shouldn't be. For instance, I have an Adobe CC subscription and created a CC folder. If I uninstall an app and let Revo do it's aggressive thing, it'll try to zap entries to other CC apps. It does warn you that the folder contains other apps, but picking your way through all the possibilities is hopeless.

On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 01:16:27 +0100 "Sjouke Burry" wrote in article

My Windows box gets cranky when Updates are Waiting. It reminds me every minute that the wireless is now connected. It only has one workspace. It tells me the Paging File is too small but nothing more. If I didn't have an iPod I wouldn't have Windows.

You need more RAM. As much as the motherboard and OS will support.

I've used Eusing for a year or two ( or four ) now, with no deleterious side effects.

ccleaner might be more of an uninstaller. That's not strictly the same as a registry cleaner; but it's related. I mighta shoulda made a clearer distinction between those.

To repeat: I use both Revo Uninstaller and Eusing Registry Cleaner, and have had good results from both. But I have not ... measurements to support that other than "nothing seemed to stop working".

Ah! Hadn't considered that that might be something it even did.

Frankly, I don't either.

I may or may not be actually talking about "dirty registry" problems. I have no data to support or deny that.

I know two things:

2) Using Revo Uninstaller and Eusing Registry Cleaner, that "annual" at least became a longer period - longer than the machine remained in active service - call it three years.

What you say is doubtless true; nonetheless...

What I did "worked". That is all I can really say about it; I don't have an identified cause, and only a partially perceptible effect. I don't believe it was a placebo effect. If I had to characterize the result, it was that general ... latency improved - a lot - after these operations.

I am nobody's Windows admin except my own. I don't "do" Windows internals; I don't have any professional relationship *with* Windows other than as a user.

I've managed to find other ways to entertain myself :)

"No deleterious side effects" due to deleting items that have been deleted.

-_-

Nice.

There's a joke in there somewhere...

The joke is on us, I am afraid.

Better that than the yolk--I'm tired of having egg on my face.

It's an Asus XP netbook I got off the junk pile at Best Buy. Genuine Intel Atom with 2 cores. It works OK for ebay and iTunes to update my iPod. I remember replacing the RAM it came with with one twice the size, but I forgot the exact numbers. It's living on borrowed time..

Good move, as long as you don't actually want/need any of the far greater range of software and drivers available for Windows than any other operating system that is.

Trevor.