I've been experimenting with MemMaid, SKtools and pocket mechanic, deciding which one(s) to buy. Like a lot of people have said, they all seem to be good and have their own strengths.

I've been trying to clean up the registry. I've removed lots of entries from programs that I've removed. I try lots of demos, so there was lots of junk in there. Those were the items that I felt safe removing.

Pocket Mechanic also wants to remove the registry entries entitled CmdFile and CabFile for most if not all of the software that I'm still running. My understanding for the CabFile entry is that the CAB file was deleted automatically after the program was installed so the entry is no longer relevant, meaning I can delete those safely. Am I right on that one?

For the CmdFile entries, Pocket Mechanic says that I'm missing an uninstall info file. That seems unlikely to be true on everything I've installed, especially since I've had no problems uninstalling programs that I got the same message on. So what about these CmdFile entries in the registry? Any thoughts on those?

Finally, Pocket Mechanic recommends that I delete 6 keys that look like:

HKEY-CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{long string of numbers and letters}

The messages for these say something like "invalid/missing InprocServer32 file ("stsmtp.dll") and suggests a key to delete.

That one I have no idea about. Does that mean anything to anyone out there?

Much obliged.

Mischa

Those are very safe to remove, as long as they point to deleted cab&dat files.

Those entries are optional, and not all programs use it. so again it's safe to remove and this is not going to affect uninstalltion.

You need to be carefull about this.
We can't comment about PocketMechanic as we didn't test it ourselves.

Why don't you try MemMaid and see if it reports the same entries or not.
MemMaid has an advanced cleaner option where it shows the entries it want to delete.
In the main MemMaid screen, tap no the arrow beside the the "Quick Cleaner" title and select "Advanced Cleaner". Now select the items you want and tap scan. Now MemMaid will show you the list of files and registry entries it wants to delete.
Just Make sure you download the latest version (1.4.0.3) as we keep adding enhancments to the cleaner.

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Thanks for the response. Unfortunately, I tried MemMaid back in September when I first got my Axim and the trial time expired a long time ago. I liked it a lot and it's affordable, so it's a strong contender for purchase, but I can't run it right now to compare the results.

I assume there's some way to edit the registry so that MemMaid doesn't know I've used the demo in the past, but if I knew how to do that, I wouldn't need to ask these questions about what is safe to delete from the registry.

Mischa