Glary Registry Repair

[Stan]

PC World is recommending the free Glary Registry Repair software. Does anyone have any experience with this or any thoughts in general? I am leary of programs that are supposed to find and repair registry problems.
Stan

 

[Meinolf Weber]

Hello Stan,

Forget this Registry cleaner software. If you have errors post the errors
to newsgroup and find solutions. Reg cleaners will do what the programmers
told them, NOT what the real MS programmers would do. They destroy more,
that they can help you. The registry is stable and normally running properly
even if you install/deinstall a lot of software.


And if you still will use do NOT blame MS for the problems you got!!!


Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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[Bruce Chambers]

PC World is recommending the free Glary Registry Repair software. Does anyone have any experience with this or any thoughts in general? I am leary of programs that are supposed to find and repair registry problems.
Stan

I've no specific knowledge of "Glary Registry Repair" software, but
bear in mind that PC World is a commercial operation and will recommend
any product its sponsors pay it to recommend. The fact that there are
some blatant falsehoods within the blurb recommending the product makes
me even more suspicious. I'd have to say, given the contents of the
recommendation, that Glary Registry Repair is just another snake oil
scam, like all other purported registry "cleaners."




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[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Stan;
Continue to be leery, most registry tools are no better than snake
oil.
Registry tools have the potential to damage Windows and seldom yield
any significant benefit.

If you must use them, be sure you are very familiar with the tool
including the tools feature that returns back to original.
If the tool does not have such a feature, that should be seen as a
large red flag.
Do not delete/change any key unless you know exactly what affect that
change will make.

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PC World is recommending the free Glary Registry Repair software. Does
anyone have any experience with this or any thoughts in general? I am
leary of programs that are supposed to find and repair registry
problems.
Stan

 

[Tony Meloche]

PC World is recommending the free Glary Registry Repair software. Does
anyone have any experience with this or any thoughts in general? I am
leary of programs that are supposed to find and repair registry problems.
Stan

Stan:

The entire program is "The Glary Utilities", they are free, and *FOR
THE MOST PART* they are excellent. That said:

The expert's advice should be taken *without* a single grain of salt -
you DO NOT want to live through a "hosed registry". Does that mean you
should not use the registry cleaner part of the program? Not
necessarily. But you have to use it with self discipline.

If you run the "Registry Cleaner" part of the program, you MUST look at
every entry it wants to "clean". The first time you do this, it is a
list that may take you an hour to go through. READ THEM ALL. If you do
not understand exactly what any proposed removal is, UNCHECK IT. If you
are not comfortably computer literate as to what all the proposed
eliminations are, this might sound like more trouble than it's worth.
That's the point.

Glary keeps backups of everything it does for as long as you want, so it
does have a "fail-safe" option (in theory), and many other aspects of
the program are wonderful. But don't use it the first time until you
FULLY UNDERSTAND what you are doing with each aspect of the program.
And again - if that sounds like it's a little beyond you, that's the point.

I love the Glary Utilites. But I'll be the first person to tell you, if
there is any aspect of them that is "a little beyond you" at this point,
DON'T USE THAT PART OF THE PROGRAM. That goes especially for the
Registry Cleaner.

Good luck - and as Sgt. Phil Esterhsaus used to say on Hill Street
Blues: "Let's be careful out there!"

Tony

 

[baynole2]

Let's not get TOO cynical. I have never seen a Glary ad in "PC
Magazine", and rather doubt a company would provide payola to
publicize a free app. I think this was just a case of a writer needing
to produce a piece, so he installed some software on a test PC, played
with it a while, & wrote it up.

 

[baynole2]

Sorry, I meant of course "PC World."

 

[Stan]

Thanks. Yours and everyone else's advice looks good to me.
Stan

 

[Stan]

Tony,
What you say is very enlightening and obviously you know what you are doing
with the software. Sadly, I am not that well versed in computerese so after
reading yours and all the other comments, I think it would be in my best
interests not to use this or any other program that invades the registry.
They may help one who understands the inner workings of a computer but
unfortunately that's not me. Better to be safe than sorry and if and when I
develop problems I will deal with the experts that know what they're doing.
Again, Many Thanks to all who sent in their comments and advice. I greatly
appreciate their input. This is a great forum.
Stan