Accidently installed Registry Cleaner

I wasn't discussing anything of the sort. I think Half Life has rotted your brain.

I warned him against formatting.

He mentioned he formatted.

I commented with a dry sense of humour that if all else fails, format.

The reason he formatted is frustration....caused mostly by you because you haven't a clue what you're talking about unless Google tells you it's so.
 
I caught you there again! :P :P :P I am well aware of what you said. But unfortunately I wasn't the one to advise against that in time. Gee? I wonder how come you never thought of: ???

"The alternative method for advanced users only is to manually edit the system registry to locate and remove any values there for the program itself and that one program alone. If there is no uninstaller link seen in the listing in Programs the add/remove seen in the Control Panel is the usual method.

The one thing no one has suggested until now is to remove it from the startup list found in "Settings\Task bar and Start menu\Customise". Along with removing it from the startup listings there the msconfig utility allows you to disable it from starting up along with Windows. Once these things are tried you may be able to use the add/remove method to get rid of it totally. Remember to delete any folder seen in Program Files afterwards."

Although you generally need to clean up a drive every so often the best advice was to disable the RC4 to disable it completely for removal. That would have saved the current installation since there was no original cd. It was "someone else's" not his own. But I'm quite sure he'll having running good with no problems with a clean install.
 
asphinctersezwhat?!?! :eek:

You said enough in this thread. I think you did enough damage. There was no need to say any more.

I only made that last comment as a joke because he had already done it. Otherwise I never would have said anything. You didn't "catch" me anything. You did, however, lead the guy on a wild Google chase.

Restoring a backup copy of the registry would have eliminated the program from startup and all the changes it made in one swoop. I have used the technique several times in similar situations. Everything else you blabbered on about just made a mountain out of a mole hill.
 
"Restoring a backup copy of the registry would have eliminated the program from startup and all the changes it made in one swoop. I have used the technique several times in similar situations." :confused:

That's nice when it's "YOUR OWN" machine and know enough to do that first! :rolleyes: This situation here involves "someone else's" where the system restore points were "useless"! Without those to go back before a bad install or any program the one thing that can be useful without wiping the current installation is to put the problem software on the "disabled" list.

With the problem(%@$ :mad: headache) software in limbo you can finally get rid of it with a few simple proceedures. That's precisely what was needed there. But that's not the problem anymore is it? :confused: I'll give you time to figure that one out. It looks like you need it! :P
 
See, PC Eye. You really don't know what you are doing at all. It just goes to further prove that you rely on Google to fix anything.

Restoring the registry hive has sweet bugger all to do with system restore. It is done from the recovery console. He was provided with detailed directions. If he hadn't have listened to your nonsense he'd be up and running right now with all of his programs intact.

Jeez... You try to cut a guy a break and this is what you get. You really don't know everything there is to know about computers you know.. You really don't.
 
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