Have I messed up using DriverCleaner Pro?

eatingrich

Howdy y'all,

I recently changed my sound card from the onboard NForce soundcard to a PCI Aureal Vortex 2 soundcard (it can use D3D and so on). Anyway, afterwards I wanted to make sure my system was nice and clean and not getting cluttered registry wise. I ran NT Registry Optimiser, which cleaned about 3% of my registry, then I entered safe mode and ran DriverCleaner Pro, selected NForce chipset, AC'97 and, I think, NForce WDM. It cleaned it up and I rebooted and I think it was fine...

but when I enter windows my Spybot S&D remover told me entries were being deleted on my registry. I checked and at first it seems normal, as it was NForce entries and I didn't want these anyway, but I also noticed stuff about Quicktime and TKBell (which is RealOne connected) so I couldn't understand why these would need to be deleted.

Anyway, I allowed some of it to be deleted and not others. I did some more stuff and rebooted, and the same messages came up again! So now every time I get into windows it tells me a bunch of registry entries are being deleted. Nothing has stopped working on my computer, but suddenly it is running much slower, when I scroll up and down on the internet it is jerky and the same in Windows Media Player and Office, and I'm worried I've messed up when I used DCPro!

Does this sound familiar to anyone? What I don't get is why the entries are deleted every time I boot up, why not just once, and could it be related to the slowdown. I'm playing music now while on the net and the music isn't jumping at all so its not like it feels like a genuine system slow down.

Plus my internet connection has been playing up so I'm not sure any slowdown is related to that being a bit tempermental, but that wouldn't explain the registry entries constantly being deleted. I ran Crap Cleaner which found 222 entries that needed fixing, so I did that and some of them related to Quicktime etc, but it hasn't changed anything.

Any ideas?

Spike

Driver Cleaner only deletes the registry entries 1 time, i think that spybot is not understanding it or blocking it. If you have an nForce chipset and only want to remove the audio then using the nForce Chipset filter is not a good idea. Best is to reinstall the nForce chipset drivers and after that reinstall your videocard drivers to be sure. Also i would disable spybot by driver uninstalls, reinstalls and installs.

eatingrich

thanks for the replies, spybot sometimes does get in the way of installing and uninstalling things but I don't think its loaded up in Safe Mode.

How do I disable spybot for driver uninstalling etc? I had a look it and couldn't figure it out.

However, I did see other things that it keeps asking me about when I log in - Flash Player, Direct CD and iTunes helper - I suppose they're all related to audio in some way?

I'll try reinstall the Nforce chipset.

Cheers!

Spike

I am not sure on how to disable spybot, but maybe right mouse click on the icon in the systemtray.

Yes it is possible that Flash Player, Direct CD and iTunes helper are related to the audio.