Windows 10 Why was "scanreg.exe" removed quietly without any alternative?

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Etanarvazac Revorix

Microsoft, Windows is nice up until you have old apps that were uninstalled and leaving a ton of useless entries in the Windows Registry. Yeah, one that knows what they're doing can go in and manually fix them, but there's a few issues with that idea:Most importantly, not everyone has the know-how to work with the Registry Editor.Of those that do, there can be hundreds of bad entries in it that are safe to be removed.Such as provided in the example found here which explains how references to files that don't exist anymore.Prime example is the removal of Internet Explorer. So the registry entry

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