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Deleting Registry Keys and Values

Started by Resident_Blonde , May 28 2005 01:05 AM

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Posted 29 May 2005 - 06:20 PM

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As long as you have a backup before delete checked, I wouldn't worry too much about deleting them all. I've never had a situation where I had to go back and reinstall anything deleted from the registry this way. Of course, there is always a first time for everything. :tazz:

You can also do a complete backup of the registry by using RegEdit and export the entire registry to My Documents folder with a file name of your choice.

You can copy the names of these files and do a hard drive search for them before you delete them and see just how much drive space they take up.

R.