Pegasus said:
This topic comes up fairly frequently and appears to be a matter of
faith. Here are some hard facts:
- The registry does not need cleaning.
- Registry "cleaners" excel in reporting numerous registry "errors"
which they claim slow down your machine. This is the well-known FUD
strategy: Create Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.
Aww, and you were doing so good, too. I suppose your strategy of
defamation and libel are better?
- These "errors", if they exist, do not slow down your machine. They
do not impair its operation either.
That's assuming they are never accessed, which isn't true. Just to GET
to the entry it's necessary to search an index and even if the entry
wasn't accessed, the time WAS spent.
What you mean is, it's very fast and seldom shows up as any speed
changes.
- Most registry "cleaners" do not improve the operation of your
machine in any way.
That's not true as in the right circumstance they can do a LOT to
"improve" the operatio nof a machine. You're myopically assuming the
only thing a cleaner does is remove unused entries.
- Some registry "cleaners" cause serious damage. The average registry
has around 10,000 entries and the registry cleaners have no way of
knowing the meaning of each and every one of them. They therefore
face an impossible task.
OFFICE has over 10,000 registry entries with a Full Install! Office may
or may not be the major occupant of the registry.
- I have never seen a repeatable test that would demonstrate the
benefit of a registry cleaner.
And, you have not tried to find such a test either; ever, or you would
have it. Likewise, I have never seen a repeatable test that WOULD
demonstrate that any damage of any kind can be caused by a full
featured, reputable registry cleaner.
Those who swear by them claim big
benefits but they cannot substantiate them. I suspect the main
benefit consists of having a warm feeling deep inside about owning a
"clean" machine.
And those who talk like you do are closed minds without actual
experience/knowledge of the situation or even how simple the registry is
to interpret and verify. You libel and defame an entire industry based
on NO verifiable evidence, and unlike you, I have looked for it at
places other that where biased articles written by other friends of
yours wrote. Name aumha in this case. Even there, one finds only opinion
and no verifiable information of any kind.
I recommend that you do not use any registry cleaner.
Same here, but not for the reasons you do; I recommend it because in his
case it is likely to be on no benefit to him. Unlike you, I even
suggested a "test" he could make to see for himself whether it makes any
difference, since he's been running it for a long time without problems.
He'll likely find no discernible differences in timing unless something
else goes wrong.
Thanks for letting me expose you again.
Twayne`
