Care of the Registry

[pgriffet]

Nope you're wrong! For the sake of saving time and posts download and try it.
I will bet you you'll delete a minimum of 100 keys from your registry. If you
do not want to try it, just go to the site and read about it. I use it every
week and get many usless keys out of my registry. It has other great features
also. Just read about it.

Why am I wrong ? Don't you think it's best to clean the registry
with all the keys written during the installation than using an
hypothetic cleaner which will leave A LOT of orphan keys ?
I'm not a newbie, I use computers since 1980 and I know what
happens with the registry. So when I say that JV16 is not the right
tool to clean the registry, I'm definitely right. But I have not
said it is a bad tool, it has of course other functions, useless
for me.
And I've tested JV16, two years ago. It found a lot of "keys"
that I've deleted and guess what ? The keys were back, as
soon as I've rebooted. So what's the point with JV16 and other
"cleaning" programs ? They suppose some keys are obsolete but
they are often wrong. What's the point if your hundred keys come
back after the next reboot ? Think twice.
So try a snapshoot tool and you will be amazed, you will forget
JV16 for cleaning the registry, believe me.
For the sake of saving time...

Pierre.

 

[Unknown]

1. In the normal course of surfing the web, keys are written which you don't
know about.
2. I have never had deleted keys come back when rebooting.
3. JV 16 Power Tools does NOT leave any orphan keys. Perhaps you are confusing
it with some other program?
4. You tested 2 years ago? What OS? I'm talking about XP..

 

[pgriffet]

1. In the normal course of surfing the web, keys are written which
you don't know about.

Yes I know about those keys. I've told you that everyday, I run T.U
which produces a report of ALL registry activity.
So what's the point ? I know why those keys are written and deleting
them will not help you run faster. I can post here if you want some
keys, I'm pretty sure JV16 doesn't delete them.
But uninstalling a program with T.U. or another snapshoot tool is the
solution to keep a clean registry.

2.I have never had deleted keys come back when rebooting

You are a lucky man.
When I use a "cleaner" program like JV16, some keys are deleted but
thet come back as soon as I reboot

3. JV 16 Power Tools does NOT leave any orphan keys. Perhaps you
are confusing it with some other program?

you are way too confident in JV16. How can this program know about
all the keys written by applications ?
I think these programs have sort of algorithm to determine that a key
is no more in use but I don't know what.
I was speaking about Win98 but it's the same for XP.
I will give you an example of orphan keys. I had installed an
application to edit RealVideo file, called MediaEditor.
The snapshot tool has produced a long list of hundred keys, what a
shame. When I uninstall the program, some keys were left alone by the
bad uninstaller program.
Here is an excerpt of some orphan keys.

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ccrpCommonDialogs.ccrpFileDialogs
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ccrpCommonDialogs.ccrpFileDialogs\Clsid
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ccrpDragListbox.ccrpDragList
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ccrpDragListbox.ccrpDragList\Clsid
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{379DBB0C-1A2D-11D2-B30A-444553540000}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{379DBB0C-1A2D-11D2-B30A-444553540000}\Control
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{379DBB0C-1A2D-11D2-B30A-444553540000}\Implemented
Categories

How could JV16 determine that the first keys are orphan ?
It's impossible. So THE solution is a snapshot tool for all new
programs and eventually, if you think it's so important, JV16 but for
me, it's useless.
You can try if you want : create manually the keys above and let JV16
run. You will see that they will be still present.
And I have hundreds of examples like this one.
why don't you test a snapshot tool ? they are free, you will have
another approach of you registry.
Pierre.