M.Balarama said:
My registry cleaner keeps deleting my shockwave flashplayer..I cannot add
the necessary lines of my registry to be over looked-not deleted.- excluded
I use regcleanerXP.
I would change to another cleaner that allows me add the registry lines to
be excluded and not deleted.
anyone know what to do..or know of a good cleaner
thanks
Michael
Explain in detail why you think that you need to clean up the registry?
And what major improvement you expect whether it be stability, Windows
load time, responsiveness of the host, or whatever is the criteria upon
you are deciding that cleaning up the registry gives you some benefit.
Do you have a backup & restore plan in place? When (and not if) the
registry cleaner corrupts your registry and when you can no longer boot
into Windows, just how are you going to restore that OS partition so it
is usable again? Even if you use a registry cleaner that provides for
backups of its changes so you can revert back to the prior state, how
are you going to perform that restore if you cannot boot the OS after
hosing over its registry? What about entries in the registry that look
to be orphaned under the current OS load instance but are used under a
different OS environment? You delete what looks orphaned only to find
out that they are required under a different environment.
Say there was an unusually high amount of orphaned entries in your
registry, like 4MB. By deleting it, you would speed up how long it
takes Windows to load the registry's files when it starts up - by all of
maybe 1 second. Oooh, aaah. All that risk of modifying the registry to
save maybe a second, or less, during the Windows startup. Most folks
that clean the registry end up deleting only 10KB, or less. They are
doing nothing to improve their Windows load time. Since the registry is
only read from the memory copy of it, and since memory is random access,
there is no difference to read one byte of the registry (in memory) from
the another byte in the registry (in memory). The extra data in memory
for orphaned entries has no effect on the time to retrieve items from
the memory copy of the registry.
Cleaning the registry will NOT improve performance in reading from the
memory copy of the registry. The reduced size of the registry's .dat
files might reduce the load time of Windows by all of a second and
probably much less. And you want to risk the stability of your OS for
inconsequential changes to its registry. The same boobs that get
suckered into these registry cleanup "tools" are the same ones that get
suckered into the memory defragment "tools".
A registry cleaner should only be used if you yourself can correctly
cleanup the registry. The cleaner is just a tool to automate the same
process but you should know every change that it intends to make and
understand each of those changes. After all, and regardless of the
stagnant expertise coded into the utility, *YOU* are the final authority
in what registry changes are performed whether you do it manually or
with a utility.
