I have a client that has 6) 95/98 systems on
a Novell network that won't run RegClean.
It locks up while scanning class identifiers
and gives an invalid page fault error. I've
downloaded a newer version. Still happens.

don't use it

bone is right- don`t use it. It seems that RegClean has some bugs that have been recently discovered and Microsoft has stopped advocating its use.

Bone & Chip are right I guess although I used it for a couple of years without a problem.Here is a copy of an email I sent to regclean@microsoft.com that came back un-deliverable:
Hope you can help me,
I have the A version of Widows 95 "4.00.950a and have
used RegClean for a long time without a problem until
recently.Now it freezes up at "Scanning Type Library
Identifiers for errors",always at this same point.I
deleted the old copy of RegClean and downloaded it
again and it still does the same thing.Any
suggestions?
Thank you for your help.
Gene

Regclean ran okay on my machine up until I installed Explorer 5.0. Now it seems to freeze at "Scanning Type Library Identifiers for errors" too. The Regclean.log shows that it stops at:
win32="C:\ProgramFiles\Common.Files\System\AD"
HELPDIR="???k"

This folder is not on my machine. The application is searching for a folder that does appear to exist.

Needless to say, I do not have a solution.

Regclean ran okay on my machine up until I installed Explorer 5.0. Now it seems to freeze at "Scanning Type Library Identifiers for errors" too. The Regclean.log shows that it stops at:
win32="C:\ProgramFiles\Common.Files\System\AD"
HELPDIR="???k"

This folder is not on my machine. The application is searching for a folder that does not appear to exist.

Needless to say, I do not have a solution.

My regclean seems to work okay on Wn98. I'm new at this and while a friend installed the program for me he failed to tell me what I should do with the "undo" files. Any answers?

ok

go to reg edit, change the entry that says:

HELPDIR="???k"

to:

HELPDIR="C:\PROGRAM FILES\COMMON FILES\SYSTEM\ADO\"

To find this in regedit, use the log to find the guid associated with the last entry.

wow, a whole day of frustration with regclean
until finding the solution listed here by JY in the previous message. Running RegClean stopped about 60% through the TypeLib checking for me too. Using "find" with regedit and the search string of HELPDIR I found the key JY mentioned and changed it. Then it ran to about 80%. Another search and found that the next key needed the same fix. all the rest were ok. Thanks again JY !!