Good cleaner

[Dude111]

This checks your reg and shows you ALL EMPTY CLSID KEYS.. (Every program gets assigned a CLSID key and if you no longer have it,the key is usually cleared (If its not deleted totally its left EMPTY))

I ran this and it found 51 "value not set" keys and i removed them all

www.databack4u.com/snc/rtkf_eng.html

[Train]

Since you are using 98, sometimes you have to use tricks like thatm plus a annual clean install, XP and newer, not worth the hassle.

[SuperSparks]

Wow, you must have saved as much as half a kilobyte of disk space there

[Dude111]

Well I do notice better performance on my computer since removing the empty CLSID keys!!

Every little bit of cleaning in the reg helps (If you know what your doing that is)

[SuperSparks]

Now if you go and read about the "placebo effect", you'll understand why you think you got better performance

[Dude111]

Is anyone else gonna try it and see how many EMPTY CLSID keys they have?

[foxy]

But each key is such a tiny piece of the file that the difference is negligible. I avoid them altogether by using Revo Uninstaller to extract every bit of uninstalled programs. I trust Revo and CCleaner, both recommended here and in my computer club, whereas I don't know that program you used.

[SpywareDr]

Is anyone else gonna try it and see how many EMPTY CLSID keys they have?

Ruh roh! Lookout Broni. Dude111 is going viral.

[SuperSparks]

Is anyone else gonna try it and see how many EMPTY CLSID keys they have?

It really could only possibly be of benefit to those still running Win98, and even then the benefit is highly dubious. For the other 99% of us that are using Win2000 onwards, the Registry is handled in a far more sensible way and the risks of messing about cleaning stuff out is just not worth it. All you get is a tiny amount of disk space saved and no performance improvement at all.

[jdc2000]

With Win 98, you could actually fill the registry up to the point where Windows could not successfully boot up, for example, by installing one more software package that created a lot of registry entries and then rebooting to finish the install. Removing entries no longer needed made sense then. With later versions, this problem was addressed.