Registry Changes

First let’s export all the registry changes that were made during the install process.

To do this, go to “File-Export-Registry to re-apply Changes” in TU.

In the appearing dialog box select “All” instead of “Selected branch” and select Created Keys, Created Values and Modified Values (new data), and set File Type to Win9x/NT4 Registration file. Click on OK. Save it to “C:Portable My Notes Keeper” and name it to “FullReg.reg”.

If you saved MNK’s main program files to another place, then save this reg file also there.


Now unfold all sub-groups in the Registry branch. Now you can see 3 items:

1. HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT (HKCR)
2. HKEY_CURRENT_USER (HKCU)
3. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (HKLM)

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT

The first, HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT is a place where Windows stores file associations and other things.

Some application also stores registration info here.

Now it has three items:

1. .mnk
2. CLSID
3. mnkfile.

The first and the third are file type associations, you can delete them (we’ll use them later when cleaning up registry but we can remove it from the list because we exported the full registry changes to FullReg.reg).

Expand the second one (CLSID) and its sub-branch (“{B0CC8D3F-EF1A-4400-A5C7-1A2230AA0B8C}”).

It has three entries: Code, Days and Name.

Yes, this is the registration info, and we should save it to a safe place. So select its parent key (“{B0CC8D3F-EF1A-4400-A5C7-1A2230AA0B8C}”) and go to “File-Export-Registry to re-apply changes”. Save it to “C:Portable My Notes Keeper” and name it to “RegInfo.reg”.

Now you can delete it from the list if you wish but I recommend you to keep it because it is a very important data.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER

Next branch is HKEY_CURRENT_USER. This branch, unlike the other two, is accessible when the user has no admin rights on the PC. If a software stores its settings here, it can be run when the user has no admin rights (provided there’s no other restriction on the PC).

Here’s only one branch: “HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsShellNoRoamMUICache”. As these files aren’t important, we can delete it from the list. And there’s no other items here, we can continue to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

In HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE the first branch is “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftCryptographyRNGSeed”. Nothing important, delete from the list.

The next is “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionGroup PolicyStateMachineExtension-List{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}”, it can also be deleted.

Next is “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionUninstallMy Notes Keeper_is1″. Also can be deleted from the list.

Next one is “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionPrefetcherTracesProcessed”, delete it from the list.

If you have printers installed, you may have “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionPrintPrintersYOUR PRINTER’S NAME”. Delete it from the list.

Now there are no items left in the list. If you have some items left that’s because your system is different as mine or some other application generated a system change which TU recorded.

Now you can close TU. If it asks you whether you want to save or not, select No. Doing so, you can examine this list later if something goes wrong.