Win98SE Empty Installer Keys

[deltarho]

I am manually cleaning my registry and noticed that a very large percentage of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\Components
keys are empty.

From what I understand of the Intaller key, a subkey in Components which was empty would be redundant.

Am I safe to delete these empty keys?

Cheers

 

[micker377]

Any good registry cleaning program will get rid of un-necessary lines. Search the web for registry cleaners, many are free. I use "EasyCleaner", by ToniArts.

 

[deltarho]

Thanks for that. I use NBG Clean Registry, RegVac and RegSeeker and whichever order I use them in almost invariably the third one will find something!

Each cleaner reflects the author's area of expertise and no one has written one making all others redundant.

I have a reason for cleaning my registry to the nth degree and have a lot of ..\Components subkeys which are empty. If I can get confirmation empty keys may be removed then I'll write my own cleaner to remove them.

Thanks again.