Copyright 1999 Jouni Vuorio.

DISCLAIMER:
This product is provided "as is" without any warranty of any kind.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Jouni Vuorio further
disclaims all warranties, including without limitation any implied or stated
warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and 
noninfringement. The entire risk arising out of the use or performance of
this product and documentation remains with recipient. To the maximum extent
permitted by applicable law, in no event shall Jouni Vuorio or
their suppliers be liable for any consequential, incidental, direct, indirect, 
special, punitive, recursive, or other damages whatsoever (including, without
limitation, damages for loss of business profits, business interruption, loss
of business information, personal injury, disruption of family life, or other
pecuniary loss) arising out of this agreement or the use of or inability to use
the product, even if Jouni Vuorio have been advised of the
possibility of such damages. Because some states/jurisdictions do not allow
the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages,
the above limitation may not apply to the recipient.

WARNING:
This computer program is protected by copyright law and international treaties.
Unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this program, or any portion of it,
may result in severe criminal and civil penalties, and will be prosecuted to the
maximum extent possible under law.

TESTED:
This version is Tested with Windows 98, 
it most likely works with 95.
Working with NT is unknown (wanna be a tester?).

INFO:
With this program you can easily remove obsolate registry
entries from software that you have destroyed ages ago.
Note: You canīt remove any Microsoft entries
(because you must be real guru if you know a. is some
product a part of windows b. can windows work without it
c. do you still have it)

WARNINGS:
Note that if you are not 100% sure that you do not have
that software, then donīt remove it.
In theory, itīs not dangerous if you remove registry entries
of some software that you have, most likely you just lose your
settings and options for that software. But there always that
risk that the software doesnīt work any more.
Also, if you see some 'product' or 'company' like '!"#WFDSf"!4e2e2',
you know that itīs in software section by accident, so DO NOT
remove it nor DO NOT remove if you see some product twice,

BACKUP:
Windows (98) automatically backups your registry
when your computer starts and it also checks if there something
badly wrong, and if it detects errors it will restore latest backup.
Read windowīs help if you want restore backup.

BUILT-IN BACKUP:
This backup feature slows RegCleaner, so if you donīt
need it, donīt use it.
What RegCleaner backups:
-All DWORD (=numbers), String and Binary values
-All Registry entries
That RegCleaner removed.

Backup files are in RegCleanerīs directory, advanced users
can manually restore backups and modify them.

OPTIONS
'Fast analyze' method is super fast.
This method analyzes only those places where software
usualy adds its entries.
'Profound analyze' method is slow, when this method
is used, RegCleaner will analyze whole registry,
If RegCleaner founds something suggesting that
software is done some other registry entries also.
If you have fast computer (> 300MHz), then you should allways use profound method. 
Of course if you have old and slow computer you can also use Profound method,
but then it will last quite a long time.


WHAT REGCLEANER DOES?
(This is about RegCleaner with 'Fast analyze,
see above for more details)

When RegCleaner is started it analyzes you registry and reports to
you what software is registered to registry. If you choose to remove
some softwareīs registry entries Regcleaner first destroys it from:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software
HKEY_USERS\Software
HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG\Software
And then RegCleaner analyzes:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES
And if RegCleaner finds something that points to the software you
chose to remove, RegCleaner removes.
After that RegCleaner analyzes:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths
And does the same things as above.

AND WHY REGCLEANER DOES THIS?
Itīs good to keep registry
clean, because.... well hereīs some examples when RegCleaner can truely help you:
1. You have destoyed, by mistake, some shareware program
what haves 30-day trial. Ok, you later noticed that you have destroyed it.
Without first removing itīs registry entries it might not be posible to
install that software again (because the shareware program thinks that
you have used it for 30-days and now you try to use another 30-days).
2. You have noticed that your favourite program is a bit old version and
you want to download the latest version. However the program doesnīt
provide any uninstalling, so you simply destroy it. But when you try to
install the lates version it give an error like this "Uninstall your old version of
this program and then run installation again". What now? you think, no problem,
remove that programs registry entries with RegCleaner and you can continue 
installing the new version.
(Iīm talking here about 'programs' but these examples apply to many games also.)

Some programs register some filetypes (like '.txt'), when you have destroyed the
program windows gives you an error when you try to run files what are registered
to the program you once had. 
RegCleaner removes (if posible) the registrations done by that program you have chose to
remove with RegCleaner. When you try to run files which were registered
to this program you had, windows will show a dialog and ask what program
you now want to use with this filetype.

Note that in some cases the program doesnīt write to registry what program
have made these filetype registrations then regcleaner canīt help you
(again, itīs not RegCleanerīs fault).

WHY REGCLEANER SOMETIMES SHOWS SOMETHING WRONG?
Some programs do not follow the standard way to register software to registry,
the standard is: to \software key first add \Company and then \product,
still some programs write like this:  to \software they add \product
and so RegCleaner will show sometimes wrong, so itīs not RegCleaners fault.
e.g news readers NewsXpress and X-News does this wrong.

HOW TO GET LATEST VERSION?
Come to my web site.
http://www.saunalahti.fi/jv16

HOW TO REPORT A BUG:
First, check my homepage to ensure you have the latest version.
If you have, and still there is a bug then e-mail me at least:
-when this bug occurs
-what it does
-what version of windows you have

MISC:
If you dont want to wait 1 second to see how long time RegCleaner worked,
then move mouse cursor to the box where the information is and it will go away.