iamii

Is there a registry cleaner program that will let me know which keys are being used by which software for XP?


thanks

Mr.Deflok

JV16 and Advanced Uninstaller are quite good, just use www.google.com and you should be able to find it (along with a torrent of other Registry Cleaning utils).

charliex

Its almost impossible (well ok quite hard) to automatically see what keys a program is using., you can see which ones it used when it installed with cleansweep or such.

You have to actually hook the program and watch it accesssing
regmon from www.sysinternals.com will handle it.

some reg cleaners will really screw up your system, since they assume a lot about file paths, some programs use environment variables in their registry keys and teh reg cleaner will think its a bad path and remove them, so make sure you use one that has an undo

Pedialyte

Yeah it is pretty hard... to be honest its way to hard to try and keep your registry clean for long periods at a time. I usually recommend just doing a reformat and clean install every year or so. Keeps my box and registry clean as a whistle.