


I still stand on my agreement earlier that unused registry keys are not usually harmful. I believe the term Correct Path, in this circumstance, is subjective. "i would take teh correct path, which is to deal with such things on a one to one basis."

However, were i to encounter such issues, i would take teh correct path, which is to deal with such things on a one to one basis. Have you encounetred many such problems with installing newer versions of previously uninstalled software? I sure haven't. Not as bad as a "registry cleaner", but not that good either. I recommend Revo Uninstaller because it doesn't function as a "Registry Cleaner" in the sense that it would scan the entire registry and be like "Oh hey this is useless, let's delete it." Instead, it's like "Oh hey, this may be a problem to future installations, let's remove it." But there are times that it will affect the installation of a newer version of an older program that's been uninstalled and the registry keys not removed after uninstallation. I agree that having unused keys in the registry is not usually harmful to the computer in any way. Who told you that yop should be messing with teh registry? Not that CCleaner is bad, just that you shouldn't use that part of it. MS explicitly recommends against it, and for good reason. Do not, under any circumstance, ever use so called registry cleaning software.
