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February 28th 09, 09:06 PM
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Ophan folders in registry
Is it safe to manually deleted those ophan folders left behind in the registry from uninstalled programs ? Appreciate any suggestions ! -- cp24 
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February 28th 09, 09:27 PM
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Ophan folders in registry
On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:06:34 -0600, cp24
wrote: Is it safe to manually deleted those ophan folders left behind in the registry from uninstalled programs ? Appreciate any suggestions ! They aren't doing any harm where they are... and they aren't slowing your computer either.
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February 28th 09, 09:37 PM
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Ophan folders in registry
cp24;980269 Wrote: Is it safe to manually deleted those ophan folders left behind in the registry from uninstalled programs ? Appreciate any suggestions ! If the uninstaller or add/remove, Programs+Features uninstaller sees any main keys left behind for a program you know is no longer installed then removing any found later would be the best idea. First confirming that these don't actually belong to some other program still in use would be the idea there however. Editing the system registry itself is best left for the advanced user since one simple mistake can easily make programs presently installed unusable. You also want to confirm that any entries removed are not part of Windows but strictly for a 3rd party program no longer present. -- Night Hawk
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February 28th 09, 10:29 PM
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Ophan folders in registry
I use the Add/Remove function in Control Panel, but they still left folders in the area like C:...\user\appdata\roaming\.... as well as in the rgistry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\program_name True, they haven't slow down my PC yet, but I worry that might one day will "collided" with other programs and fight for resouces or worse yet -STOP all together. I was wondering why MS Live OneCare scan didn't remove them either ? Any more inputs ? -- cp24
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February 28th 09, 11:15 PM
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Ophan folders in registry
Orphaned entries will do no harm, they are not going to 'collide' with any
later installations. Its my understanding that Live OneCare is due to be withdrawn, to be replaced by a new free application, though bizarrely MS will still sell it to you, and in any case I don't believe it was designed to clean orphaned files/entries. "cp24" wrote in message ... I use the Add/Remove function in Control Panel, but they still left folders in the area like C:...\user\appdata\roaming\.... as well as in the rgistry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\program_name True, they haven't slow down my PC yet, but I worry that might one day will "collided" with other programs and fight for resouces or worse yet -STOP all together. I was wondering why MS Live OneCare scan didn't remove them either ? Any more inputs ? -- cp24
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March 1st 09, 04:06 AM
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Ophan folders in registry
cp24;980328 Wrote: I use the Add/Remove function in Control Panel, but they still left folders in the area like C:...\user\appdata\roaming\.... as well as in the registry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\program_name True, they haven't slow down my PC yet, but I worry that might one day will "collided" with other programs and fight for resouces or worse yet -STOP all together. I was wondering why MS Live OneCare scan didn't remove them either ? Any more inputs ? The Live OneCare lacks any registry cleanup tool. Any device drivers or software drivers can lead to conflicts if the remaining entries are still loading those into memory. Often the software company or hardware manufacturer will provide a removal tool for seeing both drivers and entries removed. There are also a few driver cleaning tools available. -- Night Hawk
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