Re: CA Express V5R1 to V5R2 upgrade messed up

[Philipp Rusch <Philipp.Rusch@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A short comment to the "DEFUNCT" regclean utility:

I never had serious trouble with regclean, I think to remember that all it
does is to research the registry for entries, that point to products (read 
directories),
that have been "uninstalled" in one or the other way (just deleted ...)
I then makes a list of these entries to remove them, when you say "fix errors"
and it even records its changes in a "reg"-file to reapply those keys again, in 
case
of any anomaly after this procedure.
This little magic should work in all versions of windows, so this has not been
updated since a long time, BTW this has never been a "supported tool", although
it is from microsoft. (Remember: per definition, there is no need for such 
tools :-)

Cannot comment on the other "regcleaner", heard of it, didn't use since.

Regards from Germany, Philipp

Vern Hamberg schrieb:

> Anyone who wants this utitlity, go to google and search on 'regclean'. it's
> available at a number of places. I have it, if anyone wants it, contact me
> privately. I use it all the time.
>
> There's another recommended (Fred Langa, www,langalist.com) tool called
> RegCleaner, which is even more powerful (read: can be dangerous). Fred
> recommends the use of both in tandem.
>
> Regards
>
> Vern
>
> At 12:37 PM 12/7/02 -0500, you wrote:
> >Philipp,
> >
> >Thanks.  I went searching.  This page (search on MS main page for
> >"Regclean") says it's no longer available:
> >
> >...Neil
> >
> >
> >Philipp Rusch <Philipp.Rusch@rusch-edv.de>
> >
> >         To:     midrange-l@midrange.com
> >         cc:
> >         Subject:        Re: CA Express V5R1 to V5R2 upgrade messed up
> >
> >Hello Neil,
> >
> >you could also try to "clean" the registry of "old" keys by using the tool
> >Regclean from Microsoft. Latest version I have is 4.1 and is usually my
> >first try,
> >if an "uninstall" did not clean up everything properly.
> >You'll have to run it more than once until it doesn't find any more
> >"errors to fix",
> >then do a restart.
> >
> >Regards from Germany, Philipp Rusch
> >
>