Registry cleaner

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no. don't mix apples
and oranges.

my machines run in
ultra perfection and
do so without your
crappy opinions or
the other trolls that
you enable and support.

unfortunately, you
believe that the world
has to be exactly as
you believe it, otherwise
everyone else are maroons.

basically, you are a
moron for not respecting
the opinions of others.

go find a bridge and
take cover, chicken
little.
 
no. don't mix apples
and oranges.

my machines run in
ultra perfection and
do so without your
crappy opinions or
the other trolls that
you enable and support.

unfortunately, you
believe that the world
has to be exactly as
you believe it, otherwise
everyone else are maroons.

basically, you are a
moron for not respecting
the opinions of others.
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Talking about yourself again? Unbelieveable....
 
Bill said:
Talking about yourself again? Unbelieveable....
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Next thing he'll be getting on my case for not respecting the opinions
of the members of the Flat Earth Society. Again, lack of critical
thinking skills... And bad haiku, too.
 
You left out db~* in your attributions below. HE wrote that.
Bill in Co. wrote:
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(well, not really, DB wrote what's immediately below)
Next thing he'll be getting on my case for not respecting the opinions
of the members of the Flat Earth Society. Again, lack of critical
thinking skills... And bad haiku, too.
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Undoubtedly!
 
semi top posted, yes, you said it all. I can not argue a bit with your
extensive post. Will be emailed to 20,000 readers on my list in a day or
so. Thank you for taking the time to write.
 
Curt said:
If you want to see a more in-depth discussion, see PA Bear's link. I think
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You dont need an in-depth discussion. 95% of the people will never
need/require, a registry cleaner. XP seemed to "fix" that. 98SE users,
yes, a free registry cleaner like Easy Cleaner helped out.
 
Daave said:
To the OP, it should be clear that those who are familiar with this
issue are pretty much all saying that there is no concrete, objective,
verifiable evidence that registry "cleaning" is beneficial to a PC's
performance. Furthermore, although unlikely, it's possible to do some
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True, not in XP, but yes, sometimes in 98SE.
 
db.·.. > ` .. . said:
just because your
configuration is
all screwed up,
doesn't mean every
one else's is.
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You talkin’ to me? Are you talking to me?! Check yourself buddy. I actually
defended you where everybody else wants to tear your head off.

There is nothing wrong with my configuration and I am a Hell of a lot more
knowledgeable than you are—and I can say that not even knowing you.

For the final time, there IS LITTLE to be gained for most people, in most
situations by registry cleaners. Unless you have some special, secret
reg-cleaner that is infallible, then there are none known to do a /proper/ job.
They are like memory-optimizers; they may have some effect that can help a bit
in some circumstances, but for the most part, they are mostly just useless
and/or harmful.
 
actually, you need to defend
the o.p's who have issues as
a result of faulty data in their
registry, but are being prevented
by bad mvp's to tune it up and
remove the faulty data with the
program that ms created for
the registry.

otherwise, the next posting
an o.p. will provide is that
their system can no longer
start because of the registry
and the same people that
prevented the o.p. from
maintaining the registry will
ignore the subsequent issue.

Manipulative & Very Pathetic
are those who enjoy the privilege
of partaking in the microsoft MVP
program and bite the hands that
feeds their ego.

traitors, saboteurs and trollers
deserve no respect.

as long as you defend the o.p.'s
who are innocently requesting
help with their registry and help
them resolve their issues with
the registry, then you are on my
side and theirs.
 
Alec said:
just because your
configuration is
all screwed up,
doesn't mean every
one else's is.
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[sniped]

They are like memory-optimizers; they may have some effect that can help a bit
in some circumstances, but for the most part, they are mostly just useless
and/or harmful.
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How funny that you should mention db's second favorite group of useless
applications!

http://groups.google.com/groups/search?lr=&safe=off&num=100&q=databaseben+amsn&safe=off&qt_s=Search
 
Plato said:
You dont need an in-depth discussion. 95% of the people will never
need/require, a registry cleaner. XP seemed to "fix" that. 98SE users,
yes, a free registry cleaner like Easy Cleaner helped out.
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I find that EasyCleaner, written by a 15 year old in Finland, is still good
for XP.

It basically finds items that point to the hard drive but those locations no
longer exist.

For instance it will delete hundreds of entries that point to a "Temp"
folder. Of course you naturally clean out the Temp folders regularly

Galen
 
traitors, saboteurs and trollers
deserve no respect.
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I’m not sure what the MVP program has to do with anything. Just because
Microsoft acknowledges someone as being helpful doesn’t mean that the person
becomes a Microsoft spokesperson and can only say glowing things about them.
Sycophants are just as bad as “traitors, saboteurs…”

as long as you defend the o.p.'s
who are innocently requesting
help with their registry and help
them resolve their issues with
the registry, then you are on my
side and theirs.
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Except that very few people need registry cleaners. The fact is that registry
cleaners do more harm than good for novices, and novices are exactly the kind of
users that need automatic tools like cleaners. I have yet to see a registry
cleaner that can actually understand different path and filename formats and
thus does not flag all kinds of valid filenames as broken.
 
Galen Somerville said:
I find that EasyCleaner, written by a 15 year old in Finland, is still good
for XP.

It basically finds items that point to the hard drive but those locations no
longer exist.
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Does it think that the following files are broken, or does it understand these
path and filename?

%systemroot%\Explorer.exe
"C:\Windows\Explorer.exe"
C:\Windows\System32\Shell32.dll,5
C:\Windows\System32\Shell32.dll,-123
C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k cd c:\
 
Plato said:
Bruce Chambers wrote:
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semi top posted, yes, you said it all. I can not argue a bit with your
extensive post. Will be emailed to 20,000 readers on my list in a day or
so. Thank you for taking the time to write.
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Thank you for the kind words. You might also want to include these
links to discussions of registry cleaners in that email:

Why I don’t use registry cleaners
http://www.edbott.com/weblog/archives/000643.html

Mythbusting: Debunking Common Windows Performance Tweaking Myths
http://lifehacker.com/5033518/debunking-common-windows-performance-tweaking-myths

AumHa Forums • View topic - AUMHA Discussion: Should I Use a Registry
Cleaner?
http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=28099


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Bruce Chambers

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safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin

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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has
killed a great many philosophers.
~ Denis Diderot
 
Curt said:
Great links indeed, and I was in the AumHa forum when that whole thread
started. I was schooled in the use of Registry cleaners back with W98, (by
the two Canadian MVP's named Ron), and I've been advocating *against* them
ever since.
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I'm using/posting with a win98SE box. A registry cleaner is recommended
for win98SE, preferably, EasyCleaner.

Again, for XP, no registry cleaner is needed or advised, unless you got
a particular hard niggle.

Also again, you will waste your money and time paying for one.


http://www.bootdisk.com/housecall/0035.htm#3
 
Bruce said:
Thank you for the kind words. You might also want to include these
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Trust me, nothing personal. I was impressed with your post, and my
readers were also impressed...
 
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