Removed Drive and Removing Programs

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Howard

I had a drive go bad.

So now I have a system with pointers to programs on that
drive in the registry etc...

I like to keep my system clean.
So I do I go about removing the pathing and registry keys
that point to these programs that no longer exist??

Can Windows 2000 detect that the drive is gone and knows
then to remove the registry keys point to them??

My guess is Not.

Thanks

Howard
 
I like to keep my system clean.
So I do I go about removing the pathing and registry keys
that point to these programs that no longer exist??
Click to expand...

RegEdit to do it manually, and RegClean or similar utility to do it
automatically. Powerful, and therefore dangerous programs, so study up on
what you want to do.

And yes, I agree, W2K should update its registry automatically at boot to
match changes in software and hardware, as some other OSs do, but I guess
that feature is beyond the skills of Microsoft's peons.

Or else someone in MS realised that such a feature would make it dead easy to
ghost a copy of W2K, copy it onto a blank drive in another machine, and thus
bypass the need to buy another license. :-)



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