Does Microsoft supply registry cleaner?

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Does Microsoft come or supply through download a registry cleaner that will
be able to boost PC performance?
 
jcusiter said:
Does Microsoft come or supply through download a registry cleaner that will
be able to boost PC performance?
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It is a myth that registry cleaners boost performance.
They don't but some will cripple your machine. If your
machine is sluggish, run msconfig.msc, click the startup
tab and untick the non-essential programs. Note that
firewalls and virus scanners are a big burden on PCs.
Select one that has a light footprint!
 
You will still get a RegClean utility in many third party websites but
it is no longer supported and has been removed from all Microsoft
download sites.
Instead of using registry cleaner rather keep your system protected from
viruses and other malwares with specific softwares.That will keep your
registry healthy.

regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]
 
jcusiter said:
Does Microsoft come or supply through download a registry cleaner that
will
be able to boost PC performance?
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Cleaning a registry may help start up times, if it is really bad, but is
unlikely to have any great long term effect. What exactly are you attempting
to do? If it is boost performance consider (depending on your setup) a
faster processor, more memory, more disk space.
 
"Cleaning a registry may help start up times"

That is not true. It does nothing whatsoever to speed up boot or performance. And as Pegasus stated in this thread and the way I look at it "you are playing Russian Roulette " by using a Reg Cleaner
 
It has helped. This machine was upgraded from Win95, 98SE, and a registry
cleanup improved the boot time by over 5 minutes. It is such a long time
that the difference is not a mistake. You are incorrect.



"Cleaning a registry may help start up times"

That is not true. It does nothing whatsoever to speed up boot or
performance. And as Pegasus stated in this thread and the way I look at it
"you are playing Russian Roulette " by using a Reg Cleaner
 
One uses a variety of tools and techniques to tidy up the registry, now and
again. It's suprising how much junk accumulates in there - mostly left
behind by application un-installs that are almost always woefully
inadequate.

One of my favourites is Norton Windoctor. Useful only so long as you don't
let it charge ahead and do what it wants to do. The only sensible way to
use this registry "cleaner" is to manually inspect and confirm EVERYTHING it
proposes to do. i.e. never let it make automatic sweeping changes to your
registry.

....the other "hitch" there, is that you have to download Norton removal
tools to get rid of the mess that Norton leaves behind, and then some more
manual cleaning up after that !!

regards, Richard
 
jcusiter said:
Does Microsoft come or supply through download a registry cleaner that will
be able to boost PC performance?
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No. You can use CCleaner from ccleaner.com (free). It's the "issues"
button. Be sure and back up anything you remove.

I also use SystemSuite (not free), available from www.v-com.com. It also
has a registry defrag.

The people who tell you not to use these tools are familiar enough with
the registry to edit it themselves and take a cavalier attitude towards
those who can't. Ignore them, even if they have MVP next to their nick.

Alias
 
RJK wrote:

The only sensible way to
use this registry "cleaner" is to manually inspect and confirm EVERYTHING it
proposes to do. i.e. never let it make automatic sweeping changes to your
registry.
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Agreed. That's why I like SystemSuite that conveniently lists their
results in a color-coded scheme of Green for OK to delete, Yellow,
probably OK and Red, BE CAREFUL. The only time I have had to delete any
red ones was after I uninstalled something and then I looked for entries
from that program. I uninstalled Norton on a machine and, lawdy, lawdy,
there were Green, Yellow and Red results in abundance.

Alias
 
Alias said:
No. You can use CCleaner from ccleaner.com (free). It's the "issues"
button. Be sure and back up anything you remove.

I also use SystemSuite (not free), available from www.v-com.com. It also
has a registry defrag.

The people who tell you not to use these tools are familiar enough with
the registry to edit it themselves and take a cavalier attitude towards
those who can't. Ignore them, even if they have MVP next to their nick.
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I think that would be "conservative" rather than "cavalier", given the
course of action advised.
 
Mike said:
I think that would be "conservative" rather than "cavalier", given the
course of action advised.
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I was referring to their attitude towards people who don't know how to
edit the registry using regedit.

Alias
 
=?Utf-8?B?amN1c2l0ZXI=?= said:
Does Microsoft come or supply through download a registry cleaner that will
be able to boost PC performance?
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Not that I know of. One can, of course, use a third party registty
cleaner.
 
How can you applaud a "wrong" stance ? :-)

I'm often wrong but, I never take a stance, ....or was that a fib <blush>

regards, Richard
 
* Alan said:
This machine was upgraded from Win95, 98SE, and a registry cleanup
improved the boot time by over 5 minutes.
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"Registry cleaners" are snake oil. Just do the basic math: If the
average registry key is 100 bytes long, how many you have to delete to
save one megabyte?

2^20/100 = 10485

The typical "registry cleaner" removes only a few hundred entries.

Also "improved the boot time by over 5 minutes" is a ridiculous claim.
My mothers ancient Pentium-2 333 boots in about a minute.
 
I can boot up in less than a minute, ...as long as I use my cd-r that
emulates a floppy drive and loads DOS :-)

regards, Richard
 
Yeah...my PII 400 boots XP under a minute easily, and five minutes is an
extremely long boot time...guessing more problems than a cluttered registry.
 
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