Delete registry using ccleaner?

[rosed1]

Well it depends on who you talk to,doesnt it.lol! If you know a friend
who knows something about computers he can check the safe entries for
you so you do no harm.I love CCLEANER and ERUNT and best of all
NTREGOPT.

 

[POP]

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If you are computer technically challenged as myself, then
do NOT touch your registry, unless you get a step-by-step
guide from within a group. I have made two changes to my
Registry and each time I did
it with help, here in the groups.
Both have caused no problems for me.
If you want a programme to do the work for you, it is my
opinion from other threads, that these programmes are not
100% safe to use or reliable. Again, if you do not know what
you are doing in Registry,
then don't use a programme either.
I did once, a couple of years ago and I immediately
regretted it. Rgds
Antioch

What program did you use, and what did it cause to go wrong?

Pop

 

[antioch]

What program did you use, and what did it cause to go wrong?

Pop

I think it was (I do not like to comment on products in open forum like some
do) R.M. - I used it on a Win 2000 system at that time. Thinking back it
was more like three years or more. It was the result of an article in a
computer magazine that I had read.
To be honest, I didn't know what I was doing, and I had removed a Win98 and
installed the Win2000.
I don't think I had cleared the 98 properly and there was all sorts of
conflict as I remember it.
I had to call in a local comp-man to get it sorted.
I had not heard about newsgroups in those days, or forums.
I have heard that most of these cleaners have improved over the years, but I
don't feel confident enough to use one just for the sake of using it.
If/when they become idiot proof, then I might ;-)
Rgds
Antioch

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE]

The basic arguement being made is that unless you know that something is
wrong with your car, do not take it in for an oil change. Something might
go wrong.

Advocating a Registry cleaner is more like advocating that the average
driver take his transmission apart and look for worn parts.

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

I have a Q. I have used a registry cleaner an when I went back to see if
all
problems were taken care of I got them back again. Did I do something
wrong?
Probably.

Most of the problems were unused or file not found for specific programs.
My
system says that these were the problem so what happened?

I don't understand the sentence before the question or the question itself.

 

[Rock]

I have a Q. I have used a registry cleaner an when I went back to see if
all
problems were taken care of I got them back again. Did I do something
wrong?
Most of the problems were unused or file not found for specific programs.
My
system says that these were the problem so what happened?

Impossible to say from your post. However I would recommend against using a
registry cleaner. Unless you know what you are doing and only use it as a
guide to suggest things which you can then research and decide if you want
to do it or not and the consequences, using a registry cleaner can do more
harm than good. For the most part orphaned entries in the registry don't
cause any problems and they don't cause the system to run slow. Sometimes
they can interfere with a program install if you are installing the same
program you once removed, but then usually going to the program's tech
support site and manually removing any offending registry entries does the
trick. Bottom line is, unless you are very skilled and knowledgeable about
the registry, don't use a registry cleaner.