registery clean up

[Guest]

is it a good idea to clean the registery say after 3 months of usage or after
4- 5 uninstallation of the softwares.

Generally there are lots of registery cleaners avaliable claiming to boost
the windows speed,but is it recomended by windows ? even if proper mode of
uninstallations is carried out.

If yes then please suggest some safe software for the same.

regards

 

[Ted Zieglar]

It's never a good idea to "clean" the registry, ever. Microsoft does not
recommend the use of any registry cleaner.

 

[srd]

It's never a good idea to "clean" the registry, ever. Microsoft does not
recommend the use of any registry cleaner.

Isn't Wugnet affiliated with Microsoft? If MS recommends against cleaning
the registry, then why does Wugnet, its affiliate, repeatedly feature
Registry First Aid as "great shareware"?

Perhaps the average user doesn't need to clean the registry, but if one
installs and uninstalls a great many programs, it seems unavoidable, lest
the registry consume one's entire hard disk. (Or does MS recommend against
installing third party programs, despite its promoting the "Windows
Marketplace." <g> Oh, the contradictions!)

What's the big deal, anyway. You set a system restore point before
cleaning. Isn't that the point of system retore?

 

[Ted Zieglar]

"Isn't Wugnet affiliated with Microsoft?"
No.

--
Ted Zieglar
"You can do it if you try."

 

[srd]

"Isn't Wugnet affiliated with Microsoft?"
No.

There are ways of "being affiliated" besides being "an affiliate"--such as
by being involved in a joint venture with another company, a joint venture
like the "Windows Shareware Hall of Fame," for which Registry First Aid, a
registry cleaner, was selected, by Wugnet and Microsoft: "Each week
Microsoft and WUGNET feature a Windows XP shareware application
demonstrating the very highest programming standards possible. Each
application selected for this award is exhaustively reviewed under all
operating situations and of the applications submitted...less than two
percent make the cut. It is our intent to showcase only the very
"best-of-the-best" applications. A secondary criterion for these apps is
that they must also work under Windows 2000/Me/98."
(http://www.wugnet.com/shareware/spowmap.asp)

Why do you suppose Microsoft lends its name to a registry cleaner if it
disapproves?

 

[Jim]

is it a good idea to clean the registery say after 3 months of usage or
after
4- 5 uninstallation of the softwares.

No.
Jim

 

[Guest]

Sir,
finally do you do registry cleanup & do you think it helps to better
maintain the PC speed?

 

[Ted Zieglar]

No and No.

No one has been able to demonstrate that "registry cleanup" has any noticable effect on the speed of a PC.

Ted Zieglar

 

[Guest]

Sir,
I belive now in it's windows live ,i.e online optimization microsoft does
clean registries of OS.

any comments.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Doesn't make it right. Windows Live is Beta software.

[[Beta
A program that has not yet been introduced to the public but is being
released to a select few to test, examine and report problems they may
experience so that those errors can be fixed before the final release. This
type of product should never be purchased.

Often there are two types of beta testing, "open beta" and "closed beta".
Open beta refers to a type of beta testing that is open to any user. Closed
beta refers to a type of beta testing that is only available to a select few
individuals or to company individuals.]]
from...
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/b/beta.htm

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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