Help WindowsXP to do a big cleaning Clean up the garbage tricks to appear

What do you have to do to maintain the computer? It must be cleaned up, and everyone must feel disdainful. Everyone is familiar with the cleaning work of the computer! However, many friends have certain limitations in their understanding of cleaning up, and more are focused on deleting some junk files generated by Windows itself; Some alternative garbage, such as: software in the right-click menu items; IE right-click menu, toolbar icons, useless items in favorites; invalid shortcuts.

Their existence not only wastes our precious hard disk space, but also leaves a chance for the virus. Therefore, it is necessary to give the computer a big cleanup in time.

First, the right-click menu of the resource manager

1, delete the extra items in the right-click menu

Everyone knows that many software should first put their own when installing The installation files are extracted to a temporary directory (usually the Temp directory under the Windows folder), such as WinZip and other tools, and then installed.

If the software design is negligent or there is a problem with the system, when the installation is finished, these temporary files will not become "temporary", become a bunch of garbage in the hard disk, often they are *. The face of tmp appears; during the running of the software, some temporary swap files are usually generated, such as backup files such as *.old and *.bak generated when the program works, and generated by the anti-virus software or system software when checking the hard disk. Backup files, etc.; after the software is uninstalled, it will also leave some folders, *.dll files, *.hlp files and registry keys and various small and unknown things on the hard disk, which will become genuine garbage.

In fact, after we uninstall an application normally, the right-click menu will leave some items that are no longer needed, and also need to be deleted. These legacy projects are generally stored here.

 HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT*shellexContextMenuHandlers”

If it is only valid for the folder, it will be stored in these places

“HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDirectoryshell”

“HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDirectoryshellexContextMenuHandlers”

Sometimes in  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTFoldershell”

and "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTFoldershellexContextMenuHandlers” also have them, you can delete them after you find them.

In addition, the use of the registry search function can also remove the legacy files after uninstallation, look for the software-related key values ​​in the registry, find and delete, there may be more than one, you can use F3 The shortcuts continue to find until all items have been deleted.

(Hint: Before you perform any registry delete operations, you must export the items you want to delete in the Registry Editor.)