registry Cleaners

[-Karl]

I was wondering if there was any utilities out thre that might be
recommended for cleaning out the registry. I've know about Registry
Mechanic but are there better ones? Most of the ones I see are
garbage and I was hoping to find a reputable one.

Sort of that, would Virtulization of the applications (i.e. MS
Application Virtualization) prevent application from using the real
registry and jujst use it's own VIRTUAL registry?

What direction is MS taking in the future on this issue as it has been
a plague since invented

Thanks!

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I was wondering if there was any utilities out thre that might be
recommended for cleaning out the registry. I've know about Registry
Mechanic but are there better ones? Most of the ones I see are
garbage and I was hoping to find a reputable one.

They are *all* garbage and they all be avoided. "Cleaning out the
registry" is neither necessary nor desirable.

Here's my standard post on this subject:

Registry cleaning programs are *all* snake oil. Cleaning of the
registry isn't needed and is dangerous. Leave the registry alone and
don't use any registry cleaner. Despite what many people think, and
what vendors of registry cleaning software try to convince you of,
having unused registry entries doesn't really hurt you.

The risk of a serious problem caused by a registry cleaner erroneously
removing an entry you need is far greater than any potential benefit
it may have.

Read http://www.edbott.com/weblog/archives/000643.html

 

[David B.]

See inline.

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I was wondering if there was any utilities out thre that might be
recommended for cleaning out the registry. I've know about Registry
Mechanic but are there better ones? Most of the ones I see are
garbage and I was hoping to find a reputable one.

In the hands of someone knowledgable on the registry, any reputable cleaner
is good, if you can't determine whether or not it's safe to remove what a
cleaner finds, you shouldn't be using a registry cleaner.

Sort of that, would Virtulization of the applications (i.e. MS
Application Virtualization) prevent application from using the real
registry and jujst use it's own VIRTUAL registry?

Doesn't really matter, as registry cleaning isn't required anyway.

What direction is MS taking in the future on this issue as it has been
a plague since invented

Says who? What do you base this statement on?

 

[Singapore Computer Service]

Hello,

Opinions vary. There was a recent discussion thread on this in the xp
general newsgroup.
See
http://groups.google.com/group/micr..._frm/thread/fc7c7def5a226dc2/33c8e792e64d11dd

We recommend staying away from registry cleaners. If you want a clean
registry, clean install XP.

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