Deleting incriminating evidence from the registry

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bennos

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OK, its time to come clean... I've been surfing around the net visiting "unsavoury' sites :o Now it's time to hand over the laptop (sold it).

I spent quite a fair bit of time uninstalling programs and deleting temp files/cookies. Before shutting down for the last time I thought - Let's look in the registry and do a search for say..."poker", holy crap!! it's everywhere in the registry!!!

I need to hand over the laptop in a few hours... please help me get rid of left over 'stuff' from the registry! I've run 'CCleaner' but these words are still there. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

p.s: Poker is not the only search word I'm worried about. :rolleyes:
 
Run another registry cleaner. Other than that, it's easier to just format and reinstall since you were trying to erase everything. It's about 2 hours later now, so if you already handed it over, good luck. Hopefully s/he isn't too computer literate.
 
Bought some more time... I now have the weekend to play around with it. I wouldn't be that worried about it, all blokes check out things I check out but it is to a school student doing her exams next year that is taking over this laptop. I assume most kids are computer literate these days.

'Run another register cleaner'... you mean CCleaner again or a different one? If different one which can you recommend?
 
An alternative to CCleaner. I can't really comment on any other ones because I use a paid one. However, if you are looking at free ones I'm sure other's can provide you with more information if they are actually using one. Other than that, www.download.com is a good source where you can find many free registry cleaners. CCleaner is a tool used to cleanup old files, internet stuff, etc..

I'm not sure how good it is at cleaning registries because I never use it, but try something else. It might work, it might not. If you are very cautious, you could probably delete the entries yourself if you don't want to do a format.
 
use JV16powertools it's top notch. Install it, update it, then use the registry cleaner portion of it. I use it all the time on many machines, it's never failed me yet.
 
Awesome... thanks for the recommendation! I started to manually search - export - delete individually then thought "This could take me forever!"
 
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