I ran Auslogics Registry Cleaner, and it found many errors, and deleted all but one of the registry entries. I ran it a few more times, and it was still unable to delete it. So, I went into the registry and tried to manually delete it. Regedit tells me that it is "Unable to delete all specific values". The value is like NULL string (not a NULL string pointer) or something (REG_SZ, no value set)
What else can I do to delete it?
I am trying to delete key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{DF4FCC34-067A-4E0A-8352-4A1A5095346E}
I simply dont want to see something not "fixed"
It's been shown many times on this Forum that registry cleaners do more harm than good. Even Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare (which did have a Microsoft provided registry cleaner) was discontinued in October 2009 (when Windows 7 was released to consumers world-wide.)
Windows Live OneCare - Microsoft Windows
Microsoft also states:
SourceSometimes, settings that are no longer needed will remain in the registry in case they are ever needed again. There's nothing unusual about this, and this data, while unused, is small in size . . . We strongly recommend that you only change values in the registry that you understand or have been instructed to change by a source you trust, and that you back up the registry before making any changes.
This Microsoft forum thread has more info about registry cleaners.
Is there a Microsoft licensed registry cleaner? I have heard - Microsoft Community
The key that you are wanting to delete should have this value under it:
Do you see that value?
Hello calccrypto,
You are unable to delete the key either because it is being used by some program or you don't have permissions to modify/delete that key. Some parts of the registry can't be modified/changed. That key is not gonna harm you anyway. Please leave that innocent key alone, it's just using a few bytes on your hard disk!
Hope this helps.
Last edited by nilank; 30 Mar 2013 at 08:54. Reason: Corrected horrible english
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