messing with regedit

[我爱CSGO]

can i delete registry keys of my uninstalled games that i deleted years back?
should i leave it alone because i may risk killing my os?

[_I_]

Escrito originalmente por N3tRunn3r:

critical registries, if deleted or badly modified, are automatically re-created by windows 10/11 as well ..

what?
read this again

and, 'badly modified' has no meaning, if its missing or incorrect it may not work and windows would have no idea why or how to change it to its previous state

regedit has no undo or idea what things are used for, and no little to no protections to stop you from changing things that could kill the system

[AmaiAmai]

Escrito originalmente por Ldh:

can i delete registry keys of my uninstalled games that i deleted years back?
should i leave it alone because i may risk killing my os?

Nothing bad will happen for the most part. At worse, you'd have to reinstall Windows, which isn't the end of the world for most people.

The question is though, why would you bother? I doubt you will see any performance gains.

If your registry was really clogged with that much junk, you'd have reinstalled the OS anyway as it would be too much to delete. There is also the "refresh option" in Windows, though I am not sure if they have rolled out the improved version yet or care to do so at this time.

Though, I see your concern and maybe in the future there will be an easier way to clean orphan data out of Windows. The only issue? A lot must request it because I sure the project managers don't care until people threaten to go to Linux (and do it).

Request such features through feedback and encourage more to do so...

[plat]

There is only one time I would manually remove a key and its assoc. from the registry. This is when there are DCOM warning 10016 Distributed Com or DCOM "which are actually completely harmless but do create a yellow splotch in your Event Viewer.

One needs to remove the GUID four times' total to eliminate the DCOM warning in the System logs. And this condition returns upon every new installation of Windows.

I made a small YouTube video on this process almost four years ago. It's easy to do but I'm not sure if that warning still comes up anymore in EV as it is. Maybe it;s gone for good.

That's the only time--when there's something in Event Viewer. Even there, it's almost always harmless and can be ignored. I would read up on anything before deleting though. Don't take the chance. And have a rock-steady hand while highlighting and clicking.

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

Escrito originalmente por plat:

There is only one time I would manually remove a key and its assoc. from the registry. This is when there are DCOM warning 10016 Distributed Com or DCOM "which are actually completely harmless but do create a yellow splotch in your Event Viewer.

One needs to remove the GUID four times' total to eliminate the DCOM warning in the System logs. And this condition returns upon every new installation of Windows.

I made a small YouTube video on this process almost four years ago. It's easy to do but I'm not sure if that warning still comes up anymore in EV as it is. Maybe it;s gone for good.

That's the only time--when there's something in Event Viewer. Even there, it's almost always harmless and can be ignored. I would read up on anything before deleting though. Don't take the chance. And have a rock-steady hand while highlighting and clicking.

You can just create an event and toss it away never to trigger DCOM.