Easy way to clean Registry??

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Just curious I removed Norton and downloaded another antivirus, in my notification area there are annoying icons that are not even used by my laptop..

Is there a guide to follow to remove them or a 3rd party app to use?
 

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First off,,,,, when you Un-Install Norton with its own uninstaller, it does not remove everything.
It can actually leave several hundred (or thousand) registry entries.
Either use the "Norton Removal Tool" or an uninstaller like "Revo Uninstaller". Both can be had for free.

The safest registry cleaner I've found for Windows 7+, is "Win Utilities".

And an equally good program for cleaning out junk, and optimizing your registry is Tuneup Utilities from AVG.

I use both of the above Utilities.

Good Luck and Happy Computing!

TM :cool:
 

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I personally would not recommend using any registry cleaner! The registry does not need cleaning.
 

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well i like to keep my desktop clean, and find useless icons that are no longer needed a waste, so i figured if there was a way to completely remove things that i no longer use it would make things better for me
 

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I too recommend against Reg cleaning (usually very little or no benefit), but if you really want one, Ccleaner has a reputation of being the best. Just make sure you backup the registry and what ever else you do to protect your computer before you perform any registry scan.
 

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If you have not used the Norton tool you are in for surprises. Better get that done.

So is the icon problem fixed ?
 

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I too recommend against Reg cleaning (usually very little or no benefit), but if you really want one, Ccleaner has a reputation of being the best. Just make sure you backup the registry and what ever else you do to protect your computer before you perform any registry scan.
Ccleaner also has an option to reset the tray notification cache.
 

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All those registry cleaners do is to remove unused entries. Uninstalling some programs using their own "Uninstallers" can and do leave valid entries that will not be removed or changed by any cleaning programs. After cleaning with those programs, go to regedit, search for entries for uninstalled program and you shall be amazed how much of it is left. Properly uninstalling with good third party uninstaller that cleans up after is best choice. Uninstalling a program thru windows "Programs and Features" just runs uninstaller for it and does little or nothing in the way of moping up.
 

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Why not use the Customize button>

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Guys this issue has been around for a while. If you uninstall a program that has put Icons in the Notifications area down by the clock, they don't always get removed when you uninstall that program. It's not just Norton that's does it. The link in post no 2 is the fix for that without having to use a registry cleaner. You can set them to "Hide Icon and notifications" but if you've uninstalled a lot of OEM bloat you get left with a lot of dead icons in your customize list. I can see why the OP wants to clean it out. I've done what's posted in post no 2 several times on Windows 7 in the past.
 

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Guys this issue has been around for a while. If you uninstall a program that has put Icons in the Notifications area down by the clock, they don't always get removed when you uninstall that program. It's not just Norton that's does it. The link in post no 2 is the fix for that without having to use a registry cleaner. You can set them to "Hide Icon and notifications" but if you've uninstalled a lot of OEM bloat you get left with a lot of dead icons in your customize list. I can see why the OP wants to clean it out. I've done what's posted in post no 2 several times on Windows 7 in the past.

Some of the problems with icons left in notification area can be solved by shutting that program down before uninstallation. I got in the habit of doing that long time ago. Taking them out of autostart and even shutting their services and/or process, beforehand helps too.
 

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Yep.
The .bat file in #2 sounds good. :)
 

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I want it removed from my PC, not "hidden" hahaha #David Bailey

If you have not used the Norton tool you are in for surprises. Better get that done.

So is the icon problem fixed ?

yes I used the option in the #2 post #whs

Some of the problems with icons left in notification area can be solved by shutting that program down before uninstallation. I got in the habit of doing that long time ago. Taking them out of autostart and even shutting their services and/or process, beforehand helps too.

See i thought that too, until I saw that Norton wasn't even installed other then OEM, and Hamatchi, seems to keep programs there for "later" use of some reason or another, but as stated that #2 post works exactly how i wanted it #CountMike

Thanks guys, hopefully this solves other people's issues as well :D
 

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Glad you got it sorted out with post #2. :)
 

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    Type DDR3 Size 8192 MBytes DRAM Frequency 532.3 MHz
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Registry "cleaners' are overrated and mostly unnecessary, but I do use CCleaner since I'm constantly installing, testing and uninstalling applications.
 

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glad you got it sorted out with post #2. :)

lol. ;)

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