Is deleting registry keys of a program safe?
August 6th, 2016
I’m a computer newbie. Recently I saw a post here about someone asking for a program called “Ginger.”
http://www.google.com?t=11464166&highlight=
I thought that sounded great and since I don’t have a good spell checking or grammar program, I thought to go try it and saw that it is in fact free.
http://www.gingersoftware.com/download
It had a wiki page and all and I thought it’s fine then.
However, after I said install, the program did not ask me about how much space needed or requirements or anything and suddenly started installing a bunch of different things and so I tried to abort several times so half way through it stopped…though it said it was already installed. Stupid program! I saw many comments online about it being such a crappy program but I had read them too late. I tried to uninstall but the program is one of those that never shows up in control pa. I deleted the folder manually from program files, also start menu, desktop, and couple other places. I was not sure it was completely gone so googled around and saw this:
http://www.indiastudychan.com/experts/32941-How-uninstall-Ginger-software-completely.aspx
I tried to do what the last post says but there was no “Ginger” folder in HKEY_LOCAL_MECHINE\SOFTWARE.
However, when I did search for “ginger”, registry editor gave me these. Should I delete them all, only ones with “ginger” in them…or just not touch anything?LINK/S have been CODED.
Please remember to use the CODE FUNCTION
Texas Homie
Thanks for your help.
I use …. Your Unin-staller!.. Which I think is the best… takes out ALL reg entries from a program.
But those posted I would not delete because U might need them to run ..
Could be a hidden service…
thanks
You might want to get the program called Advanced uninstaller pro it is free! once it uninstalls a program it will ask you if you want to run a check to see if it uninstalls everything. then it gives you the option to uninstall the things it missed!
I ALWAYS monitor any installation – I use Total Uninstall, but there are others.
It monitors files and folders, reg entries, etc.
When you uninstall it takes out anything and everything the program put in and did (you run it once before stopping the monitoring) – all gone!
Not crap left behind – uninstallers don’t get rid of all the rubbish, even the very best ones leave something behind (unless they are also monitoring ones, Adv Uninstaller is one, I think).
thanks guys
Run this app called Reg Organizer.
It will give you a list of all Softwares that have reg entries.(in the advanced section)
Tick the appropriate ones and Delete.( It will ask first if it thinks the entry might affect other programs).
http://www.google.com?t=19419026
EDIT…Added newer and tried out version of Reg Organizer.
Can be used for all Reg and Junk cleaning and some optimization features.
Most registry cleaning tools are safe to use and it’s only when you use Regedit that you have to be careful. I use jv16 Power Tools, Registry First Aid, Windows 7 Manager and Windows 8 Manager to remove unwanted registry entries. Over the years they have never let me down.
Hi,
I'm a computer newbie. Recently I saw a post here about someone asking for a program called "Ginger."
http://www.google.com?t=11464166&highlight=
I thought that sounded great and since I don't have a good spell checking or grammar program, I thought to go try it and saw that it is in fact free.
http://www.gingersoftware.com/download
It had a wiki page and all and I thought it's fine then.
However, after I said install, the program did not ask me about how much space needed or requirements or anything and suddenly started installing a bunch of different things and so I tried to abort several times so half way through it stopped...though it said it was already installed. Stupid program! I saw many comments online about it being such a crappy program but I had read them too late. I tried to uninstall but the program is one of those that never shows up in control pa. I deleted the folder manually from program files, also start menu, desktop, and couple other places. I was not sure it was completely gone so googled around and saw this:
http://www.indiastudychan.com/experts/32941-How-uninstall-Ginger-software-completely.aspx
I tried to do what the last post says but there was no "Ginger" folder in HKEY_LOCAL_MECHINE\SOFTWARE.
However, when I did search for "ginger", registry editor gave me these. Should I delete them all, only ones with "ginger" in them...or just not touch anything?[mod]LINK/S have been CODED.
Please remember to use the CODE FUNCTION
Texas Homie[/mod]
Thanks for your help.
Definitely the ones with “ginger” in the actual name – they are specific keys for that program.
The others you’d have to use a little common sense on – some keys might list “ginger” in a longer list of called dependencies, for example – if you delete the entire list you can FUBAR things.
You CAN just delete the specific sub-keys that refer to “ginger”.
Another option is to get CCleaner – it’s reg cleaner is pretty robust yet still safe… if the keys are not used and referenced then it’ll delete them.
Tell it to scan the reg a few times – it can delete an unused key then second run will find another key that is now made unused by the deletion fo the first.
Thanks for the additional suggestions and programs guys, Ginger is definitely a sucky program, will do everything to make sure every bit of it is removed.