Registry Cleaner

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Bobwrote:
Can anyone recommend a registry cleaner program please.
Bob from Down under
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There are a lot of diferent reg cleaners and if you do not know what
you are doing then you could be asking for a lot of trouble.

One of the simplest for use is the program Ccleaner (crap cleaner). It
is a freeware and also is a great spyware/malware detecter. It will
make a backup of the files so if there is an issue it can be easily
restored(I have never yet had to restore anything they removed).

Why not try them out first:
http://www.ccleaner.com/
 
Hi

NO - let XP manage the Registry for you. If you try and use one of
these so called Registry 'cleaners' all kinds of problems can and do arise -
including a non-bootable system.

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Bob said:
Can anyone recommend a registry cleaner program please.

Bob from Down under
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Unless you know what you are doing, it's best to avoid registry
cleaners, especially those that are automatic.
 
Bob said:
Can anyone recommend a registry cleaner program please.
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I recommend using no registry cleaner. The registry doesn't need to be
cleaned. Extra registry entries don't hurt you. The risk of a registry
cleaner hurting you (deleting an entry you need) isn't necessarily enormous,
but it's much greater than any potential benefit it may have.
 
Bob said:
Can anyone recommend a registry cleaner program please.

Bob from Down under
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What specific problem are you experiencing that makes you think
that you'd need 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. Why use a shotgun 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 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 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.

The only thing needed to safely maintain your registry is knowledge
and Regedit.exe. 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.

Further, no one has ever demonstrated, to my satisfaction, that the
use of an automated registry "cleaner," particularly by an untrained,
inexperienced computer user, does any real good. 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.


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lurkswithin said:
There are a lot of diferent reg cleaners and if you do not know what
you are doing then you could be asking for a lot of trouble.
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Very, very true.

One of the simplest for use is the program Ccleaner (crap cleaner). It
is a freeware and also is a great spyware/malware detecter.
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It's also a great source of false alarms. I tried the latest version
on a brand-new OS installation (WinXPx64) with no additional
applications installed, and CCleaner still managed to "find" over a
hundred allegedly orphaned registry entries and dozens of purportedly
"suspicious" files.

It will
make a backup of the files so if there is an issue it can be easily
restored(I have never yet had to restore anything they removed).
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Most registry cleaners claim to have this ability now, and it would
certainly be wise for anyone to use the feature, but I've not seen any
firm data on how many people have been able to use such backups to
restore an unbootable WinXP system to operational status.


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