I noticed that when you uninstall a program, even after you uninstall it, if you go into the window's registry (using run "regedit"), you will find all sorts of remnants of that program and other things you may have uninstalled. In fact, there is tons of garbage in the registry. I have two questions:

1. does all that stuff from old deleted programs still need to be there?

2. If not, is there a way to clean the registry of all old files and old programs that have long since been removed?

Thanks!

 

http://www.jv16.org/
The registry cleaner at this site is exellent for removing remants of uninstalled programs.

 

Micro$oft have an app called 'regclean.exe'.

http://www.createwindow.com/wininfo/regclean.htm

 

Just be careful! To really clean the registry well, erase Windows and reinstall. I do it to mine at least twice a year.

 

format c:

 

Bage is right... I tried it and my registry is COMPLETELY clean. LOL

 

Yah, try that.