Vista Registry Cleaner - As Every PC Deserves the Best!

[D. Spencer Hines]

Never happened to me...

Fact:

My system runs smoother and swifter since I started using the CCleaner
registry cleaner.

I'm not vouching for regcleaners in GENERAL.

So your post was one long non sequitur.

'Nuff Said.

 

[Kweenie]

I see your point, but my primary concern is to ensure that there's a
rebuttal to the deliberately harmful advice these people post, so that
newbies are at least warned of the dangers. If doing so also boosts the
sad little trolls' egos, I think it's a price I'll just have to accept.
Anyway, they generally make themselves look increasingly desperate and
pathetic with each new post.



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~ Denis Diderot

What a lot of crap I read here. cCleaner is not so good as some think. It
produces a lot of problems and there are far better programs available with
much less problems.

 

[John John (MVP)]

Cleaning the registry does absolutely nothing to improve speed and
performance, any increase in performance is more likely due to CC
getting rid of temp files. Given the massive size of the registry,
cleaning it out and claiming that the computer runs faster is akin to
running the vacuum cleaner in your car and then claiming that the car
goes faster because you got rid of a pound of dust and dirt! Once in a
blue moon a registry cleaner may be of help to experienced users trying
to troubleshoot problems, othewise these tools are next to useless or
worse. These tools *do* cause problems but most of the people who use
them don't have enough experience to see the link to the damage done by
the cleaner.

John

 

[Plato]

CCleaner is worthless as a registry cleaner. I tried the latest
version on a brand-new OS installation with no additional applications
installed, and certainly none installed and then uninstalled, and
CCleaner still managed to "find" over a hundred allegedly orphaned
registry entries and dozens of purportedly "suspicious" files, making it
clearly a *worthless* product, in this regard. (Not that any registry
cleaner can ever be anything but worthless, as they don't serve any
*useful* purpose, to start with.)

I rarely start a pc from scratch just to test out an opinion I read
here, but in this case I believe I will. I will just take a guess that
on a fresh install Windows itself adds "useless" aka "currently
unneeded" entries that do not point to anything useful. Or, perhaps,
Windows adds entries that may come in handy in the future to help
install hardware and software.

Reference:
http://www.bootdisk.com/housecall/0035.htm#3

 

[Plato]

Documentation? Benchmarks from before and after? Oh, and make sure
they either been notarized or verified by an independent laboratory. In
other words, only when someone finally produces verifiable scientific
evidence will I give such claims a lick of credence.

Sounds like the advice from that guy in the movie

"Thank You For Smoking"

I'd suggest limiting your crossposting BTW

 

[N. Miller]

Twaddle.

I approve every single registry change that is made.

If I don't approve it, no change is made.

Perfectly safe.

I don't need a registry cleaner to recommend changes which I then have to
approve. Unless I have some indication that there is a registry change
needed, I don't make changes. I've got a few "dead" keys. I don't see how
they make any difference.

Any tool which offers suggested changes is dangerous in the hands of those
who don't know what the tool does. Anybody who does know what the registry
cleaner is recommending, probably doesn't even need the cleaner.

 

[Daddy]

If you're really planning on erasing your hard disk and reinstalling Windows from scratch, here's a fun exercise to try:

Once Windows is up and running, run a registry cleaner. You'll be amazed at the "errors" it finds. Can you imagine the nerve of Microsoft - to deliver an operating system that has errors right out of the box!

For even more fun, run a few different registry cleaners, and see if they all come up with the same errors. They don't? So which one is right?

Come to think of it, if all these registry cleaner developers understand Windows so well - better than Microsoft, apparently - why don't they get together and write an error-free operating system! Windows would be out of business in no time, don't ya think?

;-)

Daddy

 

[D. Spencer Hines]

Those who want to dumb every piece of software down to the point that
even the most rank newbie can NEVER get in trouble with it should be
condemned to use ONLY that software.

 

[Twayne]

CCleaner is worthless as a registry cleaner.

No, it is not worthless as a registry cleaner. It doesn't clean deep,
but it isn't worthless.

I tried the latest

version on a brand-new OS installation with no additional applications
installed,

a wasted effort at that point, since all it found were the "in case"
chaff MS sticks in all over the place. Big deal; if they're needed,
they'll get put back with the installs, but ... it's really
counterproductive and a waste of time to run a cleaner at that point.

and certainly none installed and then uninstalled, and

CCleaner still managed to "find" over a hundred allegedly orphaned
registry entries and dozens of purportedly "suspicious" files, making
it clearly a *worthless* product, in this regard.

The orphaned entries were just that; orphaned. It doesn't take a CRAY
to determine that an entry is an orphan.

Suspicious Files, well, if you RTFM, it told you how to treat those.

(Not that any

registry cleaner can ever be anything but worthless, as they don't
serve any *useful* purpose, to start with.)

And that is pure BS and you know it, as surely as you have a closed
mind.

Because of your claims, I did the exact same test you claim to have
done, here on a sandbox XP laptop not too long ago, got rid of the
orphans it was willing to remove, and left the suspicious files alone
since I didn't want to go see what they were. Told it to not be so
picky, reran the test & those didn't show up, just as the instructions
predicted..
After completeion of build, machine ran perfectly. Installed Office,
DVD support, OOo, local Apache Server, PHP, AV and anti-spyware with
several other minor apps & all were quite happy.
Repeated ccleaner, no more issues, no problems. Then once I was
sure all was well I re-imaged the drive, ran ccleaner, no problems
found, and all is well since.

Why you would bother to run a trgistry cleaner immediately after a clean
install is beyond me, though. Talk about a waste of time! But,
speaking of waste ...

If you want to actually help people out in this area, why don't you test
and identify a set of reliable applications and/or offer to give an
opinion on whether a chosen one is reliable or not?
But you won't; it's easier to just parrot your closed minded attitude
that apparently knows very little about the subject. If you were really
knowledgeable, you would also consider normal day to day read/write
sources to the registry and explain how you excuse those when you posit
that anything that touches the registry is bunk? How do you justify
allowing that to happen? I've actually encountered more MS-caused
registry problems over the years than I have from non-MS applications
that use the registry in similar manners.

These aren't for you; they're for the many who enjoy follosing this kind
of link and who might like a little information on the subject. Even
with their own built in biases, these links are a breath of fresh air
compared to yours.

http://download.iolo.net/articles/Registry1.pdf

http://www.raxco.com/products/perfectdiskRxSuite/PDRXSuite_wp.pdf

Twayne

 

[D. Spencer Hines]

How do you feel about NTREGOPT.EXE?

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I rarely start a pc from scratch just to test out an opinion I read
here, but in this case I believe I will. I will just take a guess that
on a fresh install Windows itself adds "useless" aka "currently
unneeded" entries that do not point to anything useful. Or, perhaps,
Windows adds entries that may come in handy in the future to help
install hardware and software.

Yes, there are what I suppose one could call "currently useless"
entries, referencing various things like file associations and
installation locations for many well-known legacy (and current)
applications that may not be installed yet. But these are *NOT*
"orphaned entries," as CCLeaner claimed they were. Nor does their
presence have any effect upon performance.

And yes, there are some entries left over from the initail
installation. But these were *NOT* amount those identified as either
"orphaned" or suspicious" by CCleaner.


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Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:


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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand Russell

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has
killed a great many philosophers.
~ Denis Diderot

 

[Twayne]

There is *NO* such thing.




Documentation? Benchmarks from before and after? Oh, and make sure
they either been notarized or verified by an independent laboratory.
In other words, only when someone finally produces verifiable
scientific evidence will I give such claims a lick of credence.

Nice response, but I asked you for that long, long ago and have reminded
you of it several times. I even provided you some documentation and
benchmarks years ago but you were phrasing your questoin differently
then.

Why is it you can not do what you ask of others?

Twayne

 

[Bruce Chambers]

The orphaned entries were just that; orphaned. It doesn't take a CRAY
to determine that an entry is an orphan.

You clearly don't even know what an "orphaned" entry is, then.

Because of your claims, I did the exact same test you claim to have
done, here on a sandbox XP laptop not too long ago, got rid of the
orphans it was willing to remove, and left the suspicious files alone
since I didn't want to go see what they were.

You mean you didn't "know" what they were, didn't know how to find out,
and, had you been tghe average user, would have just let CCleaner delete
them. Proving for one and all to see just how dangerous registry
cleaners can be. Thank you.

Repeated ccleaner, no more issues, no problems. Then once I was
sure all was well I re-imaged the drive, ran ccleaner, no problems
found, and all is well since.

Were there problems that needed fixing before you ran CCeaner? If not
than having no problems after running CCleaner proves only that your
were lucky, not that running it did any good.

Why you would bother to run a trgistry cleaner immediately after a clean
install is beyond me, though.

Because it clearly demonstrates that the registry "cleaner" is listing
nothing but bogus false alarms, as the "problems" it points out are not
problems, at all.

These aren't for you; they're for the many who enjoy follosing this kind
of link and who might like a little information on the subject. Even
with their own built in biases, these links are a breath of fresh air
compared to yours.

Spam snipped

Rank advertising copy is a "breath of fresh air?" What are you a used
car salesman?

--

Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:


http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand Russell

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has
killed a great many philosophers.
~ Denis Diderot

 

[Twayne]

.... and find absolutely no change for the better. (Provided the
computer boots at all, that is.) If an one had ever found such
evidense, they'd surely have made it public it by now.




Certainly, I've always conceded that CCleaner is quite useful help in
finding and cleaning up temporary files on the hard drive. We're not
discussing that function, but rather it's uselessness as a registry
cleaner, which I merely tested.




I really don't think that your repeatedly demonstrating a lack of
reading comprehension can truly be considered as "calling" me on
anything, do you?

I have. And I've provided it to you before. Just because you want to
make the requirements such that anyone's response doesn't meet YOUR
requirements is silly.

Why don't you provide some numbers? Be specific and I'll repeat them
here as closely as I can. I do have a sandbox machine I can refresh to
delivery day any time i want to. As near as I can tell you have NEVER
provided a singly bit of any evidence in any way to back up what you say
other than once you mentioned "most MVPs" or something like that. BFD.
Seems like you were an MVP at that time; you spoke a lot for them if you
weren't.

 

[Twayne]

If the registry cleaner is so "perfectly safe," why do you feel the
need to approve each and every change? You do realize, don't you,
that you've just added weight to the position you're trying to argue
against?

I did a few years back too, when idiots like you started spewing their
garbage. I was really curious and concerned because I'd never had a
problem. Reasonably written apps are no more prone to creating problems
than any other app. Almost all apps, especially MS app, read/write to
the registry constantly. Odds are, something will corrupt sooner or
later. Somewhere in this mass of archives I even have estimates on the
number of reads/writes I calculated on an average per day basis. My
registry cleaner was barely a blip in the chart.

 

[Twayne]

Balderdash...

Good software has checks and balances built in -- with full input by
the user.

CCleaner does an excellent job of cleaning the registry -- and
incorporating user input -- just as a good physician or attorney does.

Chambers seems to be the resident Village Idiot here.

Does he always provide Great Entertainment like this?

It's like having a pet kigme -- always ready to take a sharp, swift
kick to the derriere.

Actually he does have a functioning brain cell or two. He's just the
victim of a seriously jaded and closed mind who enjoys these little
battles. He knows full well what the actual situation is but insists on
looking like an idiot over certain things. If it looks like an ... .
At least he's had to use something besides his boilerplate lately.
He's been asked time and again to back up his claims and he can't do it;
obviously.

Twayne

 

[Twayne]

What on earth have physicians and attorneys got to do with CCleaner.
You are a really strange person!

I use to be an advocate of Registry Cleaners. I use to try them all
and was quite convinced they were an essential for efficient computer
management. Perhaps in the days pre WINXP they were useful. I read
all the cautionary advice given in the NGs and like you dismissed
them. Everytime I experienced a glitch, time to run a 'cleaner' and
I use to have 'glitches' at regular intervals. I then decided
perhaps I should stop running these Cleaners and see what happens. Now
I no longer have these 'glitches' or any need to restore the
Registry (ERUNT) from time to time. My experience has been
sufficient for me to relate machine problems (glitches) with Registry
Cleaners. Before you comment, I do run programs like CCleaner, not
the Registry Cleaner component, and Disk Cleaner regularly to clear
out the 'trash' . Actually I think Disk Cleaner is the better of
the programs.
What I do question is that Registry Cleaners will or may corrupt the
Registry to the extent of preventing boot up. This statement I
simply find absurd. For a Registry Cleaner to do this it would need
to remove/corrupt Registry entries that are essential to the OS. Even
with the most rudimentary Quality Control the software designer
would identify and correct that before the program was issued.
Registry Cleaners certainly do remove entries that are required by
some programs to operate (empty keys no doubt) and this is where they
fall down. I suppose the essential question is, in what way does the
removal of empty and redundant data in the Registry improve machine
performance and/or in what way do empty and redundant keys impair
machine performance. If the machine must read every Registry entry
to permit it to execute a command then the answer is self evident but
that is not the case.
Registry Cleaners are a con. There only value is to give the users
of such programs a 'feel good' feeling. These programs remove
entries in the Registry of entries that do not require removal and by
doing so sometimes 'throws the baby out with the bath water'.

If what you say is true, where are the legions of damaged complainers?
I seldom see a problem related to a registry cleaner and when I do it's
seldom the cleaner is the source of the issue.

 

[Twayne]

Cleaning the registry does absolutely nothing to improve speed and

performance, any increase in performance is more likely due to CC
getting rid of temp files. Given the massive size of the registry,
cleaning it out and claiming that the computer runs faster is akin to
running the vacuum cleaner in your car and then claiming that the car
goes faster because you got rid of a pound of dust and dirt! Once in
a blue moon a registry cleaner may be of help to experienced users
trying to troubleshoot problems, othewise these tools are next to
useless or worse. These tools *do* cause problems but most of the
people who use them don't have enough experience to see the link to
the damage done by the cleaner.

If they cause so many problems, how in the world can they be trusted as
a trouble-shooting tool? If you use it for TS, you're saying you accept
its output.

 

[Twayne]

I see your point, but my primary concern is to ensure that there's a
rebuttal to the deliberately harmful advice these people post, so that
newbies are at least warned of the dangers. If doing so also boosts
the sad little trolls' egos, I think it's a price I'll just have to
accept. Anyway, they generally make themselves look increasingly
desperate and pathetic with each new post.

lol, I don't THINK so Bruce. In this thread I'd say you have been
pretty well trodden and returned with nothing of any substance to back
up any of your misinformation. Take up my earlier challenge and let's
see what happens.

 

[Twayne]

What a lot of crap I read here. cCleaner is not so good as some
think. It produces a lot of problems and there are far better
programs available with much less problems.

Specifically, what kind of problems did/does it create? What are the
far better programs with less problems? Let's put some meat into this
ether.