Registry Cleaners

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Bruce Chambers

It's free and it is a Microsoft site.
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That doesn't make it safe to use.

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Gerry

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Alias

HeyBub said:
A new car costs upwards of $50,000.

A fully-loaded hot-dog may be as much as $7.50.

Neither of these, along with OneCare (at $49.94), have anything to do with
Microsoft's free registry cleaner.
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I stand corrected but wouldn't use it.

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R

Randem

I use Registry Cleaner, It does support creating a Restore Point before
cleaning just in case... Do not listen to the pundits who keep trying to
scare you from using one. Just ask them for a repeatable example and you
will not get a legitimate response. I just use the registry cleaner to solve
a problem with VB today.

I created a custom dll a few years bac and was updating it. It was not going
to be compatible with the older one so I copied the project then renamed it
for the new dll. Everything was fine until I wated to change the name in the
references of VB and debug it, then there was a problem I could not. It was
because VB had referenced both dll projects as the same and the only way to
get rid of the references was to delete all the custom dlls then clean the
registry so that any reference to the old dll was gone, then it worked. I
could debug the project.

To the pundits, Try doing that without a registry cleaner!

Let the pundits give you a REAL example not just their scare tactics which
have no proof.

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Unknown

That incidentally is only your IGNORANT opinion.
Twayne said:
Useless trash - responses by the same ignorants and closed minds that post
here, all feeling cozy in their own little web space.
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John John - MVP

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...9fc55c84159/f9b2f696ca1b9462#f9b2f696ca1b9462
http://boards.live.com/safetyboards/thread.aspx?threadid=1009500&boardsparam=PostID=28824491
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic110399.html
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;299958
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/449a5c7d-f9f9-4392-800c-83503145889f1033.mspx
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888637
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/247678
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;969707&sd=rss&spid=11734

An I would like to see you figure out this one if you ever come across it!
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;969707&sd=rss&spid=11734

There are many other post about different applications that get "broken"
by registry cleaners, for example OneCare is known to break some Virtual
Machine software. The problem with these cleaners is that you don't
always immediately see what they might have broken and that makes it
difficult to latter figure out the problems that they might have caused.
I have seen one of these cleaners break dll registrations and
temporary file links. Because the the problem was so obscure and
because the application using the dll and temporary files was only used
once every quarter it made it nearly impossible to connect the dots.
These cleaners cause more harm than good.

John
 
B

Bruce Chambers

Randem said:
To the pundits, Try doing that without a registry cleaner!
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You could do that just using Regedit's built-in Find function.





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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand Russell

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has
killed a great many philosophers.
~ Denis Diderot
 
K

Ken Blake, MVP

I use Registry Cleaner, It does support creating a Restore Point before
cleaning just in case...
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Creating a restore point before using a registry cleaner is certainly
a very good thing to do. If the registry cleaner screws up, and you
can use the restore point, you may be able to undo the damage it has
done.

But if the result of using the registry cleaner is an unbootable
computer (which *does* happen), you are out of luck unless you have
made an image or clone of the drive.

Add that danger of using a registry cleaner to the fact that cleaning
of the registry isn't needed and is dangerous, and it's obvious that
it's a serious mistake to use one. Leave the registry alone and don't
use any registry cleaner. Despite what many people think, and what
vendors of registry cleaning software try to convince you of, having
unused registry entries doesn't really hurt you.

The risk of a serious problem caused by a registry cleaner erroneously
removing an entry you need is far greater than any potential benefit
it may have.

Read http://www.edbott.com/weblog/archives/000643.html
 
K

Ken Blake, MVP

If you insist on using one, I've used CCleaner for that purpose.
It's not as agressive as some and it asked you to backup before the
changes.

You can go ape with a deep registry cleaner, but they're a little
dangerous.

Again, if you insist, use Erundt before you clean and you can save
yourself from yourself.
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Yes, having a backup of the registry (for example, with Erunt) reduces
the risk of using a registry cleaner. However, note that it does *not*
eliminate that risk. Using a registry cleaner can leave you with an
unbootable computer.
 
T

Tim Meddick

It would if you had Recovery Console installed - you can restore ERUNT's
backups with that (or by choosing "Repair with Recovery Console" option if
using the XP Installation disk)


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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :)
 
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Nate Grossman

Twayne said:
Useless trash - responses by the same ignorants and closed minds that
post here, all feeling cozy in their own little web space.
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Unlike you, of course... who inhabits and even smaller web space.
 
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ANONYMOUS

If you really want to clean your registry then the safest thing is to reformat
your HD and reinstall the OS. There aren't any safe products that can "clean"
the registry because there is no need to clean it for a normal computer user.

hth
 
B

Bill in Co.

Nate said:
Unlike you, of course... who inhabits and even smaller web space.
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LOL.
Now, now, are you discounting all his "extensive" experience and
"documentation" proving otherwise? (snort!)
 
K

Ken Blake, MVP

Then you'll soon have to live with a clogged registry.
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Complete nonsense. I have *never* used a registry cleaner and I have
never had a clogged registry.

As a matter of fact, there's no such thing as a "clogged registry."
 

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