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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 ? |
Rule #1:
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Corollary: “If it ain’t broke and you fix it - it will be.” |
Tempt not the dragon...
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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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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