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Sean - 27 Feb 2005 00:09 GMT

Is there one from Microsoft?

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Mike M - 27 Feb 2005 00:34 GMT

REGCLEAN is a freeware utility from Microsoft that repairs a number of
problems that are common to Microsoft products. A copy of regclean can
be downloaded free from http://www.majorgeeks.com/download458.html (I
can't find a link to Regclean on the Microsoft site). However if you
really want to use a registry cleaner you might be better served using a
third party product such as Arisoft's EasyCleaner
(http://www.toniarts.com).

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> Is there one from Microsoft?

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Mike M - 27 Feb 2005 00:44 GMT

Correction: It should of course be ToniArt's EasyCleaner
(http://www.toniarts.com).

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> REGCLEAN is a freeware utility from Microsoft that repairs a number of
> problems that are common to Microsoft products. A copy of regclean
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> registry cleaner you might be better served using a third party
> product such as Arisoft's EasyCleaner (http://www.toniarts.com).

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Shane - 28 Feb 2005 04:12 GMT

Mike,

That ToniArts link is no good, it takes you to a page where they want money
for what Toni still offers as freeware at his new site.

I thought that had been sorted out, but apparently not. The new site is: :
http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/dwnloads.htm

Shane

> Correction: It should of course be ToniArt's EasyCleaner
> (http://www.toniarts.com).
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> > registry cleaner you might be better served using a third party
> > product such as Arisoft's EasyCleaner (http://www.toniarts.com).

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Mike M - 28 Feb 2005 10:09 GMT

Thanks Shane.

I thought I had posted the right link but obviously not. Thanks for the
correction as ir was never my intention to point the poster towards a
product they would have to pay for especially as the product in this case
is actually free.

Cheers,

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> Mike,
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> I thought that had been sorted out, but apparently not. The new site
> is: : http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/dwnloads.htm

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Shane - 28 Feb 2005 12:35 GMT

It *used* to be the right link, Mike. I forget the precise details but
afaicr the company who actually own the domain and had been allowing Toni to
use it for free, decided they wanted to get some money back. He wasn't
consulted when they decided to charge to access a download for his free
software and when apprised of the situation, asked them to stop doing so.
And I thought they'd complied, but obviously not.

Shane

> Thanks Shane.
>
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> > I thought that had been sorted out, but apparently not. The new site
> > is: : http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/dwnloads.htm

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Sean - 07 Mar 2005 18:19 GMT

Mike, good morning.

Ive been using the cleaner as mentioned.

Was looking for a solution to deal with all the duplicate files.

I had to complete a reboot and it wasnt clean. Essentiall the external cd
drive was parallel driven and was not able to boot from them.

We took out the hard drive and threw the files on that way. Unfortunatlely,
a network boot wasnt completed either. Any event, thats why I have so many
duplciate files.

Is there a way to determine the files to delete by time or date?

> Thanks Shane.
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> > I thought that had been sorted out, but apparently not. The new site
> > is: : http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/dwnloads.htm

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Mike M - 07 Mar 2005 18:38 GMT

I'm sorry but I haven't a clue as to what you are talking about or what
duplicate files have to do with using a registry cleaner.

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> Mike, good morning.
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> Is there a way to determine the files to delete by time or date?

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Mike M - 07 Mar 2005 18:47 GMT

Correction, of course I know what you mean about duplicate files but not
where a registry cleaner comes in to play. Also where are these duplicate
files located?

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> I'm sorry but I haven't a clue as to what you are talking about or
> what duplicate files have to do with using a registry cleaner.

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Sean - 08 Mar 2005 01:29 GMT

I used the link provided for the freeware - Toniarts.

There are 900+ files in 361 groups.

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Mike M - 08 Mar 2005 02:13 GMT

And this has what to do with duplicate files? I'm sorry but I feel you
really do need to explain yourself a little more.

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> I used the link provided for the freeware - Toniarts.
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> There are 900+ files in 361 groups.

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Mike M - 08 Mar 2005 03:05 GMT

Ah, I see. EasyCleaner also has the ability to check for duplicate files.
I'm somewhat surprised that you have 900 duplicate files although would
expect you to have some in folders such as windows\vcm (duplicates here
can all be safely deleted), windows\sysbckup and windows\options
(duplicate files in these areas should be retained).

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> And this has what to do with duplicate files? I'm sorry but I feel
> you really do need to explain yourself a little more.

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E. Barry Bruyea - 02 Mar 2005 11:59 GMT

>REGCLEAN is a freeware utility from Microsoft that repairs a number of
>problems that are common to Microsoft products. A copy of regclean can
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
>third party product such as Arisoft's EasyCleaner
>(http://www.toniarts.com).

If you are running Roxio's burning software, be careful with Regclean
as it removes a couple of files that will disable Roxio.

>> Is there one from Microsoft?

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