Registry Cleaner

[Minto]

Dear Ken,

Thank you for your advise.

Since reading your e-mail, I have again studied the "Windows Registry"
file very carefully. I think it will take a lifetime for someone to
master it. I am myself quite old and don't have the time, though it's a
challenge for me.

Please continue to give your learned advise to me and other learners in
the world. Thanks!

-M

 

[LabRat]

titus12 voiced his/her/it's humble opinion in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support on Fri 13 Oct 2006
09:37:24a:

Is there any program or way that will clean-up the registry after a
program is uninstalled?

Thank you;
David

RegClean.exe. Free, safe and fast. Has no hooks into the registry so it
could be run off a floppy or RAM stick. Ran it just now and I'm still
here. It saves an undo file in it's install directory so you can easily
restore any changes it has made. Easily accessible with a dos boot disk.
After 6 - 7 years of use I've never had a single problem. Works good for
XP too.

I've even tried running a commercial reg fixer first. Not correcting any
errors it has found. Closed it then run RegClean, quit then run the same
commercial prog and the found errors are down to a couple instead of
dozens.


Later......

LabRat...... |:^{)

 

[DatabaseBen]

if you have been using your cleaner
without any problems, then you should
look for the problem somewhere else.

i use a number of cleaners, depending
on my mood and need because
each one is designed a certain way.

ccleaner is not bad at all based on my
experience with it.

however, it is unique as well because
it provides the options to select what
should be skipped for removal.

for me i like my history files and
the mru's and recent doc's, so
these i skip for removal. however,
these files are not required for my
personal use and not for my o.s.

because you have first hand experience
of how your pc should be running and
you feel that it is likely due to something
with the registry maybe there is a tool
that can help you.

it is called pagedfrg by sysinternals.com

this is an excellent freeware that i have
loaded up to run at each boot. i dont
have the url but maybe someone could
kindly provide herein.

it will defragment your page file,
your registry hives.....

i think this is something you and your
personal friend / pc, will
like as well.......

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Dear Ken,

Thank you for your advise.

Since reading your e-mail, I have again studied the "Windows Registry"
file very carefully. I think it will take a lifetime for someone to
master it.

"Master" is a funny word. It implies a complete and perfect knowledge, and
any time you are dealing with *any* subject of significant complexity,
perfection isn't possible.

So the result is that some people know a lot about it, others nothing, and
most of us in between. Even for those of us in between, some know more than
others. Nobody knows everything. But the more experience you have in using
and working with something, the more you get to know about. That sort of
improvement of skills is all you can ever look forward to, and any thought
of "mastery" is a just a figment of our imaginations.

That's my philosophy, and it applies to almost any subject, not just the
Windows Registry.

I am myself quite old and don't have the time, though it's
a challenge for me.

I'm not sure how old is "quite old," but I don't think age should ever be a
barrier to leaning. I myself will be 69 next month. My view is that the day
I stop learning is the day I might as well be dead.

Not having the time, on the other hand, is a reality, and one I can well
appreciate, since I never have the time for all the things I want to do.

Please continue to give your learned advise to me and other learners
in the world. Thanks!

Thanks for the kind words, and you're welcome. Glad to help.

Ken