Why are there more then one?

[svol]

When doing some manual registry cleaning I found out that there are 3 ControlSet's in my registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM , with the names:
ControlSet001
ControlSet002
CurrentControlSet

These three controlsets seem to contain similair information with only some hardware installments differences. I think that the 001 and 002 controlsets are old controlsets of previous hardware (I installed a new mobo and more without reformating) while the CurrentControlSet is the one of the current configuration... am I right? And can I delete the older controlsets to clean up the registry from useless and out-dated keys?

Thanks in advance!

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[jlanka]

<A HREF="http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;EN-US;Q100010" target="_new">MSKB article</A>

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[svol]

Very interesting, but is ControlSet002 (and maybe also ControlSet001) vital or can they be deleted? I already found out that they both contain lots of non-existing or multiplied hardware keys.

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[blah]

You can delete anything you like, it wont "clear up space" in the registry in any way, but on the other hand might damage yer sistem. ControlSet is a Control Set which controls sets of hardware/software settings installed on your putir. Any modification/deletion will result in infringement or corruption of services installed.

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[jlanka]

what he said. Don't muck with the registry unless absolutely necessary. Thats my policy, anyway.

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[svol]

But there is so much junk in my registry. My monitor can be found 7 times in Wizard Hardware on more like that. I just want to have the current things in it and not all old hardware junk... anybody knows how I can remove that?

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[sparky853]

Try RegScrubXP, it will go through your registry and find any keys/values that are dublicates/non-existant, and you can then fix the problems.

You can find RegScrubXP here:
http://tucows.enoreo.on.ca/preview/279366.html

Make sure you backup your registry file first, just in case.

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[jihiggs]

did you stop and think, hmm, maybe its supposed to be that way?

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[svol]

I have it and it doesn't seem to remove duplicate hardware or old hardware entries.

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[FallOutBoyTonto]

Just format and reinstall! That'll get rid of everything old; and if there are any duplicates created afterwards then they need to be there.

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[svol]

I don't want to format... it would take me ages to get everything back to normal then.

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