Anderton
1. I don't know, but you can clear entries from the registry, as described in the eZine. Maybe there's some way to delete those keys...but at least live with the feature for a couple weeks before deciding you don't need it. I find it saves me time.
2. Did you update the Boutique FX Suite containing TH3, as instructed in a recent update (don't recall which one offhand)?
1. I use custom templates, so all my "go to" fx and such are already in place when I start a project. If for some reason I want to add another instance of the "go to" ones, I just drag it across from an existing fx bin, so yes, to me, it's just clutter that I don't really need to look at every time I open the menu. Sorry and all that, but I would prefer that CW "improved" things like the fact that inspector doesn't shrink back properly when expanded using the clip tab, or fix the irritating "undo" glitch where it doesn't display the correct undo item rather than fix things that didn't really need fixing IMO.
2. Yes. CCC shows green light for boutique fx suite and says it is latest version (2017.05). However, what I have since discovered is that CCC only updates the 64 bit plug-ins and not their 32 bit counterparts where they exist, so I have just re-installed the update manually to include 32 bit versions and it works now. Now that I know this, I will revert to doing the updates manually as I had been doing until recently seeing as it now seems that in leaving it to CCC I will still end up having to that anyway.