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Drbraunsr 01-13-2021 07:32 PM

Registry Editing
 
I have several Electromotive lines in my Win10 Remove apps that appear to be orphans and I cannot remove them to save my life. They hurt nothing except my OCD.

I believe my only remedy is to edit the registry. I've read the caveats and the internet warns to leave sleeping dogs lie - don't wake the bear.
Looking for educated advice -- I drive a 40 year old turbocharged Porsche to speeds an old car shouldn't go so, as Forrest Gump says "I'm not a smaart man..."
Poke the bear ?

Porsche-O-Phile 01-14-2021 03:47 AM

Rule #1:
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

Corollary:
“If it ain’t broke and you fix it - it will be.”

flatbutt 01-14-2021 04:57 AM

Tempt not the dragon...

masraum 01-14-2021 05:11 AM

I haven't messed around with Win 10, but I have never had any issues editing the registry in any other version of Windows. The important part is to be absolutely certain of exactly what you're doing or be prepared to rebuild your machine from scratch. (hope you've got everything backed up).

I imagine Win 10 is similar, but they probably make it harder to get to and edit the registry.

GH85Carrera 01-14-2021 06:09 AM

Editing the registry is easy if you are the administrator on the computer.

Hold the Windows key and hit R
type CMD
A black window opens up, and then just type regidit at the flashing cursor.
You are now in the registry. It is very easy to change something and make you computer not run so be careful. It is like swinging a chainsaw, very dangerous.

Just be 100% sure you are only deleting or changing what is needed.

Good Luck.

flipper35 01-14-2021 06:20 AM

Or just click start and type regedit and run it from there as an admin.

Easy to make a back up of the whole thing or just the entries you are changing. There are utilities that will take care of that for you as well, if you trust them.

Drbraunsr 01-14-2021 05:06 PM

It's a consensus, I'm gonna let my OCD suffer and let this 'sleeping dog lie'
Thank you for taking the effort to reply, you guys changed my mind.

svandamme 01-15-2021 09:06 AM

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/247501/how-to-manually-remove-programs-from-the-add-remove-programs-list#:~:text=After%20you%20identify%20the%20regist ry,%2Dclick%20Add%2FRemove%20Programs.


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