As a matter of fact, I did run N&B's registry cleaner.  It cleaned and
compacted the registry and found several other problems, but it did not
touch the IDENTITIES key.

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Farrington" <[log in to unmask]>

> Jim Meagher wrote:
>
> > I've gotten OE 5 working again thanks to some tips from another mailing
> > list. It ended up being a corrupted IDENTITY key in the Registry's
current
> > user
> > section. After I deleted the offending keys, OE installed and ran on the
first
> > try.
> >
> > Once again, this shows the need for good third party uninstall software.
> > The Windows ADD/REMOVE SOFTWARE just didn't cut it....
>
> Thanks for the information. I am interested to know if after deleting the
> program using Add/Remove did you run any registry cleaners like Mcafee
> (Nuts&Bolts) or Norton? Every time I delete a program I run them and they
ask me
> if I want to get rid of unused lines in the registry. They both ask for
> different lines to be removed but they seem to do something about useless
lines.
>
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