Registry Cleaners

[R. McCarty]

For those of you who are Registry Cleaner proponents, you should read this
weeks edition of the Langa Letter. Interestingly, Fred makes a global
statement

""Everyone can benefit from regular use of a Registry cleaner
--- but let me help you avoid the bad ones so you won't end
up in worse shape than when you started!""
http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2005/2005-10-10.htm#1

Which just proves that even the so-called experts can overstep their
experience and make bad recommendations.

His full article on Registry Cleaners is found at:
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=171203805

His "Winning" tool should make at least one participant here smile.

 

[kurttrail]

For those of you who are Registry Cleaner proponents, you should read
this weeks edition of the Langa Letter. Interestingly, Fred makes a
global statement

""Everyone can benefit from regular use of a Registry cleaner
--- but let me help you avoid the bad ones so you won't end
up in worse shape than when you started!""
http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2005/2005-10-10.htm#1

Which just proves that even the so-called experts can overstep their
experience and make bad recommendations.

His full article on Registry Cleaners is found at:
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=171203805

His "Winning" tool should make at least one participant here smile.

I've never trusted a word that Langa ever said.

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[Kerry Brown]

For those of you who are Registry Cleaner proponents, you should read this
weeks edition of the Langa Letter. Interestingly, Fred makes a global
statement

""Everyone can benefit from regular use of a Registry cleaner
--- but let me help you avoid the bad ones so you won't end
up in worse shape than when you started!""
http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2005/2005-10-10.htm#1

Which just proves that even the so-called experts can overstep their
experience and make bad recommendations.

His full article on Registry Cleaners is found at:
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=171203805

His "Winning" tool should make at least one participant here smile.

Thank you for the link. I will probably buy JV16 Power Tools 2005 for my own
use. I am one of the people who doesn't recommend registry cleaners. I use a
registry cleaner occasionally but I don't recommend they be used by someone
without the technical knowledge to know what the results will be when a key
is deleted. I am still unconvinced by the claims many people make that
regularly cleaning your registry makes your computer load and run faster are
valid. Registry cleaners are a useful tool for fixing some problems in
Windows. Personally I don't see them as a maintenance tool but a repair
tool. The article does no testing of the systems after the registry cleaners
were run. They may have introduced more problems than they fixed. I have
personally seen many systems that were corrupted by the use of registry
cleaners.

Kerry

 

[R. McCarty]

Thanks Kerry, I just thought that Langa's statement that included the
caveat about ending up worse was pretty telling. He recently went to
somebody's house to Clean/Tweak their PC. I wonder if he is going
to go out and help all those users that innocently get a Registry Cleaner
and end up with an unbootable PC - Really reckless advice for a
Professional IT person.

 

[Jon]

Amusing that Stomp found 732 "errors", compared to Registry Mechanic's 18

Jon

 

[R. McCarty]

I also think that evidence was provided that reinforces my "Pealing an
Onion" comparison. The more you run them, the deeper they drill into
the Registry and the more likely over time some interdependent Class
Identifier or other item will start to appear as a problem. But it was an
interesting aspect, the varying "Error Counts" they returned.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

- Really reckless advice for a
Professional IT person.

Actually, from this and past articles, I'd always concluded that Langa
was simply an uninformed -- and certainly technically inexperienced --
journalist. I wouldn't call him an "IT professional."


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[R. McCarty]

He presents himself as such. Newsletters, magazine columnist..... I
just thought this particular topic is going to come back to haunt him.
Basically he functions like a "Clearinghouse" for user supplied tips &
tools. I was actually surprised that someone would actually do a full
fledged article on Registry Cleaners and compare them. Go Figure ?

 

[Jon]

And the moral of the story?....Use a decent knife to peel your onions, and
know what you are doing, and you won't end up crying.

Jon

 

[Stan Brown]

""Everyone can benefit from regular use of a Registry cleaner
--- but let me help you avoid the bad ones so you won't end
up in worse shape than when you started!""
http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2005/2005-10-10.htm#1

Quote from the article: "Despite all that, we found and were able to
remove some 3,000 additional bogus entries in his Registry. That, and
some other maintenance steps we took, cut his PC's boot times in
half."

One wonders what those "other steps" were. I suspect his statement is
rather like saying "wearing white coats, and other steps, have
slashed the rates of infection during surgery" -- where the "other
steps" included sterilizing instruments and thoroughly scrubbing the
hands with surgical soap.

 

[R. McCarty]

I suspect the Boot time reduction is simply attributable to removing
Startups & Watchdogs. Almost any system I work on has at least
4 or more that definitely increase the system's boot time. I was just
over at Langa's forum and he already has a few postings on cleaning
that have kept a user's PC from booting. Anybody want to take
bets on how long that article and newsletter content stays on line.

 

[Lua]

I think you are turning into a troll.


Lu

 

[Lua]

Quote from the article: "Despite all that, we found and were able to
remove some 3,000 additional bogus entries in his Registry. That, and
some other maintenance steps we took, cut his PC's boot times in
half."

One wonders what those "other steps" were. I suspect his statement is
rather like saying "wearing white coats, and other steps, have
slashed the rates of infection during surgery" -- where the "other
steps" included sterilizing instruments and thoroughly scrubbing the
hands with surgical soap.

No NO NO Stan, surely not some "evidence" that these things actually work!
Lu

 

[R. McCarty]

I just made a reference to you that you'd like this article. Is that any
reason to reply with a negative comment about me. It was simply a
lighthearted comment directed to you. If you don't personally like
me or my commentary, then just step up and say it, but don't call me
a Troll.

 

[Lua]

I just made a reference to you that you'd like this article. Is that any
reason to reply with a negative comment about me. It was simply a
lighthearted comment directed to you. If you don't personally like
me or my commentary, then just step up and say it, but don't call me
a Troll.

1) I didn't see a reference to me.
2) I always say what I think - in this case I will be more precise: You
are a troll.
And, I don't like you.
HTH,
Lu

 

[Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)]

Lua

I take it that you are not upset easily, remembering that people who live in
glass houses shouldn't throw stones..

 

[kurttrail]

1) I didn't see a reference to me.
2) I always say what I think - in this case I will be more precise:
You are a troll.
And, I don't like you.
HTH,
Lu

And who the f*#k are you, and why should we care what you think?
McCarty is a well respected regular contributor to this group, and you
are some Johnny-cum-lately, and have yet to earn anyone's respect here.

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[Lil' Dave]

I like people that speak their mind.
That said, can we move on now?