Here is a cute, open source windows utility. I just read a favorable blog post that just reviewed it.<br><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/littlecleaner/"><br></a><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/littlecleaner/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/littlecleaner/</a><br>
</div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><p class="intro"> Little Registry Cleaner is an open source program
designed for Microsoft's Windows Registry. Its purpose is to remove
obsolete or unwanted items that build up in the registry over time in
order to improve the stability and performance of your computer. These
items may include un-needed or inaccurate entries left behind by
incomplete uninstall routines (known as "Software Rot"), application
program errors, and even misapplied registry hacks. Problems also come
up when users transfer or delete files without realizing that dozens of
Registry entries aim to the old location. </p></blockquote>Whilst nothing beats a core operating system that is robust enough that it doesn't need a registry, in any case .. having something like this handy to buff up and polish the registry on my Windows XP VM sounds like a handy tool, especially after installing / removing heaps of applications and it decides to go belly up.<br>
<br>Also interested in hearing from others that have used this tool.<br><br>Regards Roland<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College<br><a href="http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au">http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au</a><br>
<br>"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead<br>