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Posted by arctic on Nov-04-2003 12:52:

registry

Basically i've just formatted both my hard drives: fresh start so to speak, and i'm lookins to clean out the registry.

Only problem is, i have no clue how to do it . Are there any programs that, well, make the task simple for a reg n00b

Posted by arj1o1 on Nov-04-2003 13:41:

i thought you started with a clean reg after a format

Posted by lyte on Nov-04-2003 14:48:

yeah, what exactly are you trying to do? maybe i could help you.

Posted by kypez on Nov-05-2003 02:06:

Well simply.. if you just formatted both your hardrives there should be no OS on them.. So just reinstall Windows and you should have a fresh registry.. or am i missing something

Posted by arctic on Nov-06-2003 10:21:

I had thought that formatting would clear my registyr, but i went into it via regedit, and found reg entries from programs long since wiped by the format

Hence the confusion

Posted by Superstar on Nov-07-2003 02:20:

are you sure you didn't just try to delete everything on your hard drive manually? cause formatting is different... also, if you want to do it again you can always remove all the partitions and repartition your drive before formatting it, that's guaranteed to work.

Posted by arctic on Nov-07-2003 05:51:

quote:
Originally posted by Superstar
are you sure you didn't just try to delete everything on your hard drive manually? cause formatting is different... also, if you want to do it again you can always remove all the partitions and repartition your drive before formatting it, that's guaranteed to work.

Of course i'm sure I formatted it

It is partitioned, so I might just re format (when it gets back from the repair joint ) and remove them. Weird.

Posted by CATHAIN on Nov-07-2003 14:54:

Well if your still looking for something to delete registry entries just get a program called regcleaner and that should do it.

Posted by arctic on Nov-08-2003 08:10:

quote:
Originally posted by CATHAIN
Well if your still looking for something to delete registry entries just get a program called regcleaner and that should do it.

Exactly what I was looking for, cheers

Posted by Ozzie on Nov-08-2003 19:52:

have u not heard of google, arctic?

monkey!!

Posted by arctic on Nov-09-2003 02:25:

quote:
Originally posted by Ozzie
have u not heard of google, arctic?

monkey!!

Stop following me

Posted by itsTrueSonic on Nov-14-2003 03:46:

to safely format your hard drives and completely erase everything from memory (including the registry and all OS files and dirs), there's a program called gdisk (look it up in google .. forgot the site) and the program basically takes out the OS from the memory and then after that, you can do a simple fdisk and format to set up your HD with your specific specifications you want (100% occupy, 75%/25%, whatever ...)