Registry clean up

[Liebach]

Does anybody knows of a program which can clean and correct erros in the
registry?

Thanks

 

[Guest]

Good Registry Cleaning Programs do NOT exist.

I have seen too many corrupted and crashed OSs through people using them.

The only way to clean your Registry is manually, and ONLY if you know what
you are doing!

 

[Liebach]

OK, perhaps you are right. I think you know what you are talking about!
Thank you.

 

[Liebach]

Thank you for your answers; and I think you are both right, I'll keep away
from using these registry "cleaners".

 

[Joseph Meehan]

While I believe there have been some very good (not perfect) registry
cleaners for older versions of windows, I certainly would not recommend
using anything at this point in Vista's history. Nothing is likely going
to work well for some time yet. Vista itself is going to be doing some
serious changes over the coming months so even a cleaning program that might
work well today could totally crash Vista in a few months.

I think the best advice so far is to be careful in what you load and do.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Does anybody knows of a program which can clean and correct erros in the
registry?

Thanks

Why do you think you'd ever need to clean your registry? What
specific *problems* are you actually experiencing (not some program's
bogus listing of imaginary problems) that you think can be fixed by
using a registry "cleaner?"

If you do have a problem that is rooted in the registry, it would
be far better to simply edit (after backing up, of course) only the
specific key(s) and/or value(s) that are causing the problem. After
all, why use a chainsaw when a scalpel will do the job? Additionally,
the manually changing of one or two registry entries is far less likely
to have the dire consequences of allowing an automated product to make
multiple changes simultaneously. The only thing needed to safely clean
your registry is knowledge and Regedit.exe.

The registry contains all of the operating system's "knowledge" of
the computer's hardware devices, installed software, the location of the
device drivers, and the computer's configuration. A misstep in the
registry can have severe consequences. One should not even turning
loose a poorly understood automated "cleaner," unless he is fully
confident that he knows *exactly* what is going to happen as a result of
each and every change.

Having repeatedly seen the results of inexperienced people using
automated registry "cleaners," I can only advise all but the most
experienced computer technicians (and/or hobbyists) to avoid them all.
Experience has shown me that such tools simply are not safe in the hands
of the inexperienced user. If you lack the knowledge and experience to
maintain your registry by yourself, then you also lack the knowledge and
experience to safely configure and use any automated registry cleaner,
no matter how safe they claim to be.

More importantly, no one has ever demonstrated that the use of an
automated registry "cleaner," particularly by an untrained,
inexperienced computer user, does any real good, whatsoever. There's
certainly been no empirical evidence offered to demonstrate that the use
of such products to "clean" WinXP's registry improves a computer's
performance or stability. Given the potential for harm, it's just not
worth the risk.

Granted, most registry "cleaners" won't cause problems each and
every time they're used, but the potential for harm is always there.
And, since no registry "cleaner" has ever been demonstrated to do any
good (think of them like treating the flu with chicken soup - there's no
real medicinal value, but it sometimes provides a warming placebo
effect), I always tell people that the risks far out-weigh the
non-existent benefits.

I will concede that a good registry *scanning* tool, in the hands
of an experienced and knowledgeable technician or hobbyist can be a
useful time-saving diagnostic tool, as long as it's not allowed to make
any changes automatically. But I really don't think that there are any
registry "cleaners" that are truly safe for the general public to use.
Experience has proven just the opposite: such tools simply are not safe
in the hands of the inexperienced user.


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[Liebach]

Thank you for your explanation; I now realize that automatick registry
cleaners is no good so I will abstain from using them anymore! Thanks again.

....Liebach