Good registry cleaner?

[Shenan Stanley]

Before anyone jumps me for mentioning Windows 7 on the XP forum let
me say I realize that..
I merely wanted to point out that on the Window 7 support forum,
they have 2 identical adds at the top and bottom of every page from
UniBlue stating that the first thing one should do is download and
run their registry cleaner. I am not taking any sides in this issue
but Microsoft seems to be pushing user to get and use this registry
cleaner. And it is not free.
Why would Microsoft be so willingly support the use of this product?
I know that the consensus here is that registry cleaners are next to
or worse than useless.
I happened to use one once, the UniBlue product to be exact, on my
Inspiron E1505 laptop and it fixed the problem I was having, a
missing or corrupted .dll file but I never ran it again.
This message was produced on a Sony Vaio laptop running Windows 7
Home Premium Edition.
My Inspiron is in the shop and my small hooby business of selling
fish makes it absolutely necessary that I have a working computer. I
ordered a $1000 build of a Dell Studio 17 but it was going to take
up to 3 weeks for it to arrive so I bought the Vaio to be able to
stay in touch with my customers. Raising tropical fish is my
hobby/business not computers but once the Inspiron is out of the
shop and the new Studio 17 arrives I will own 3 working laptops so
I will never be caught without at least one working machine again.

On top and bottom of *what* forum?

I am accessing this *newsgroup* from Outlook Express - not a web forum. I
know about the Microsoft Windows 7 'forums' here:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/help/community

Specifically here:
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/windows7

And on those officially ran by Microsoft forums - I do not see any such
adds. I could be missing them - if so - please point them out to me.

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

I'll give you $100 if you can find any such adverts at
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/windows7!!

 

[EN59CVH]

But, your 'guarantees' aren't worth the powder to blow them to bits.

But you seem to like reading them so there must be some powder for your
mummy to look tidy!

 

[EN59CVH]

Only the Microsoft Valuable Pigs (or MVPs for short) are spreading lies,
more lies and utter nonsense. The rest of us are saying that CCleaner
has a place in computer maintenance on XP.

hth

 

[Gordon]

You are more intelligent than the average PIG you get on these newsgroups
with the title MVP after their name. CCleaner is a fantastic tool and I
am surprised it hasn't become commercial yet.

Keep up the good work Nil.

You really are a CRETIN aren't you? I've been using Windows in all flavours
since 3.1 and am now on 7. I have NEVER needed any sort of registry cleaner.

MORON.

PLONK!

 

[Gordon]

Only the Microsoft Valuable Pigs (or MVPs for short) are spreading lies,
more lies and utter nonsense. The rest of us are saying that CCleaner
has a place in computer maintenance on XP.

But it doesn't. You're an idiot.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

But it doesn't. You're an idiot.

I think it does. Most of us have pointed out that CCleaner *is* a very
good program, and only its registry cleaning function should be
avoided.

 

[EN59CVH]

You really are a CRETIN aren't you? I've been using Windows in all flavours
since 3.1 and am now on 7. I have NEVER needed any sort of registry cleaner.

Well in that case there is definitely something wrong in your brain!
You are just another idiot (Ken blake is your soul mate) whose
experience starts with Windows 3.1 but knows absolutely nothing! Ken
hasn't mastered the art of formatting a HD because, like you, he has
never needed to format a HD! Now this says everything one needs to know
about nutters like you and Ken.

 

[EN59CVH]

I think it does. Most of us have pointed out that CCleaner *is* a very
good program,

are you now contradicting your soul mate? It looks like you have been
converted so join the club Ken. You are always welcome with your
rational approach to problem solving!

 

[Bruce Chambers]

But it doesn't.

Not quite true.

CCleaner's only real strength, and the only reason I use it, lies in
its usefulness for cleaning up unused temporary files from the hard
drive. It differs from the native Windows tool in that it allows more
granular control and you can specify which folders you want scanned. For
instance, WinXP's disk cleaner will examine only the profile folders of
the user who is running the utility. On a single-user machine, this is
fine, but on a family or other mult-use machine, the ability to clean
temorary files from all of the user profiles at once is a great time saver.

However, you're also partially correct. I've tested the most
recent recent version (with all updates) 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.)

You're an idiot.

No argument there, but I wonder why you feel the need to point it out
when "EN59CVH" does such a thoroughly good job of doing so him/herself
with every post he/she sends.


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killed a great many philosophers.
~ Denis Diderot

 

[Peter Foldes]

So you agree that the Registry cleaning program of CCleaner should not be used as
any other registry cleaning tool

 

[Guest]

On top and bottom of *what* forum?

I am accessing this *newsgroup* from Outlook Express - not a web forum.  I
know about the Microsoft Windows 7 'forums' here:http://windows.microsoft..com/en-US/windows/help/community

Specifically here:http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/windows7

And on those officially ran by Microsoft forums - I do not see any such
adds.  I could be missing them - if so - please point them out to me.

Here is the forum I found when I had a question about Windows 7 I
could answer for myself.
I only had been using Win 7 2 days so still have much to learn about
how it all works.
I do like it very much and if you are buying new machines it is
certainly better than my single day's worth of experience helping
friend set up his Vista Home Premium OS settings.
Seemed like Vista asked for administrator to log in at every turn. Win
7 doesn't.
Minor and off topic comments.
Here is that forum which had the specific answer to my particular
question. I see it isn't exactly THE Microsoft Windows 7 help forum
but imitates it.
http://www.sevenforums.com/

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

<ROFL>

So you agree that the Registry cleaning program of CCleaner should not be
used as any other registry cleaning tool

 

[Gordon]

No argument there, but I wonder why you feel the need to point it out when
"EN59CVH" does such a thoroughly good job of doing so him/herself with
every post he/she sends.

Well nearly every one - I've just killfiled him...

 

[KevinB]

Well nearly every one - I've just killfiled him...

No you haven't. You keep reading his/her messages and respond
accordingly. You are a lying troll.

 

[Gordon]

No you haven't. You keep reading his/her messages and respond
accordingly. You are a lying troll.

And who rattled YOUR cage?

 

[Twayne]

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Well in that case there is definitely something wrong in
your brain! You are just another idiot (Ken blake is your
soul mate) whose experience starts with Windows 3.1 but
knows absolutely nothing! Ken hasn't mastered the art of
formatting a HD because, like you, he has never needed to
format a HD! Now this says everything one needs to know
about nutters like you and Ken.

Most likely he needed it, but was just too half-fast to know he needed it
and suffered thru. There are more than a couple in this group that claim to
meet the same criteria.

Twayne

 

[Twayne]

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are you now contradicting your soul mate? It looks like
you have been converted so join the club Ken. You are
always welcome with your rational approach to problem
solving!

Not a single one of the misinformationists I've ever noticed said to allow
it to touch the registry though. A few gave good, knowledgeable responses,
but most won't bother because of the fanatic few and their diatribes.

 

[Twayne]

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So you agree that the Registry cleaning program of CCleaner
should not be used as any other registry cleaning tool

lol! Speak of the devil and he appears! This one in particular has zero
reality on board w/r to cleaners and loves to issue troll bait.

Twayne

 

[Twayne]

LOL! See? That's exactly what I was talking about a couple links upwards.
Don't even bother with these troll baiters and ex-most valuable prophets of
the devil.


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