Options - Include - Registry Key (and Registry Value)

[KenAlcock]

Under Options - Include, the user can currently add custom files to delete and folders to empty. But there is nothing for registry keys or values.

 

The request is to provide a few new buttons within the Options - Include screen, which would allow CCleaner to perform more robust registry searching:

 

 

1. Add Registry Value Priority = High
   This would be useful for adding specific registry values to clean. Some examples: the last folder or file path opened by a program, or a pesky run at boot entry.
    
    
   
2. Add Registry Key Priority = High
   This would be useful for clearing entire MRU lists that CCleaner is unaware of. For example, after running CCleaner, I always import the following .reg file, which deletes the search history for the Google Deskbar. It would be nice to be able to configure CCleaner to do this.
    
   

   Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Deskbar\termhistory][-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Deskbar\urlhistory][HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Deskbar\termhistory][HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Deskbar\urlhistory]

   
    
   

3. Submit Entry Priority = Medium
   This button would allow users to select any individual entry on the Options - Include page (Folder, File, Registry Key, or Registry Value) and submit it directly to the CCleaner team (perhaps as an XML data record). Submissions could be captured in a Piriform database, and counted. Once enough users have submitted exactly the same submission (identical inclusion records), said items would then come under consideration, testing and review for inclusion into the main search body that CCleaner offers users through the GUI.
    
   Think of this as the same type of submission process used in many anti-virus and anti-spyware software packages, except that CCleaner's would be aimed more at temporary files, folders, and MRU registry keys, things of this nature.
    
    
   
4. Import/Export Includes (would also work under Options - Excludes) Priority = Medium
   This would provide users a means to network and share their CCleaner custom Includes and Excludes entries among each other here on this forum or in other online forums. So as users learn about all the various types of junk an application leaves on a system, they can configure and several entries for that program, export it to a file (I recommend XML), and share it with other users.
   

 

[Andavari]

You may want to look at the winapp2.ini add-on for that Google Deskbar. I have no idea if it's in there, however if it isn't you could create a cleaning routine by studying other winapp2.ini entries.