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Thread ID: 82269 2007-08-21 11:11:00 Vista-Cleaning the registry curly (6655) Press F1
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583505 2007-08-21 11:11:00 Running Vista Home premium. Due to loading some software that turned out to be not compatible with Vista yet, I find there are now a lot of shortcuts left behind.

It looks like I removed the program without using the uninstall feature, it took out the program but left the shortcuts. For whatever reason I cannot remove them.

Any suggestions re a registry cleaner that works with Vista?
curly (6655)
583506 2007-08-21 11:20:00 ccleaner should work in Vista. Thats got a registry cleaner in it. Speedy Gonzales (78)
583507 2007-08-21 11:20:00 Running Vista Home premium. Due to loading some software that turned out to be not compatible with Vista yet, I find there are now a lot of shortcuts left behind.

It looks like I removed the program without using the uninstall feature, it took out the program but left the shortcuts. For whatever reason I cannot remove them.

Any suggestions re a registry cleaner that works with Vista?


I find CCleaner works well www.ccleaner.com (http://www.ccleaner.com)

It's also safe as you can make a backup of the reg before cleaning each time.

it also cleans up your usage tracks etc.. have a read on the site :thumbs:
GhostBuster (10141)
583508 2007-08-21 12:26:00 ccleaner should work in Vista. Thats got a registry cleaner in it.

Thanks Guys. CCleaner worked a treat. Worked too good actually, as it cleaned out most, if not all, of my cookies. Including pressf1 !
curly (6655)
583509 2007-08-21 12:42:00 You can customise the clean process to exclude cookie removal. Greg (193)
583510 2007-08-21 19:14:00 You can customise the clean process to exclude cookie removal.

Or customise it to leave the cookies that you want - e.g. PressF1

Ken
kenj (9738)
583511 2007-08-21 19:17:00 Yep, one of the first things I do is setup the cookies exclusion list in CCleaner on fresh install, would be good if you could import/export these. sal (67)
583512 2007-08-22 06:53:00 The new beta version seems to be very nice (and on Vista too!) Much much faster and more customizable options. beeswax34 (63)
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