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mazzer1000
May 11, 2006, 12:48 AM
I am using a registry cleaner and doing an aggressive scan. The report has shown up Invalid ProgID entry's (OLE/DDE) and
Invalid ApplD entry's (OLE/DDE)

What are these and how safe is it to remove them?

LTheobald
May 11, 2006, 01:07 AM
I think these are mentions of programs that were uninstalled but traces were left in the registry.

If you have a good registry cleaner, it will do a backup of your registry before making any changes so if it does go wrong, you can just restore from the backup.

I personally think you are OK to remove these but lets see what some others say first.

fredg
May 11, 2006, 06:00 AM
Hi,
As the previous answer stated, your Registry Cleaner should be making backups of changes; that you can later put back if you need to.
I would let it delete what if finds.
Best wishes.

mazzer1000
May 12, 2006, 01:03 AM
Thanks loads LTheobald and fredg, I have done an aggressive registry clean and everything seems fine. Cheers!