Registry Tool

[Dragoon68]

I'd appreciate some review from anyone on the news group who has
experience working with the "Registry Tool"
<http://www.registrytool.com/> off line registry maintenance software.
Does it meet the advertised capabilities and is it worth the purchase price?

 

[Ted Zieglar]

Easy: You don't need a registry tool. Any registry tool.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Never heard of it.

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[Trevor Hirst]

From what ive seen, registry tools rarely "fix" problems at best and at
worst force u to rebuild

 

[Dragoon68]

I'm not looking for something to automatically "fix" registry problems.
I'm interested in this particular tool because of its advertised ability
to compare different registry files off line. This would permit me to
find and resolve differences between a number of machines that should be
set up the same way.

 

[Ted Zieglar]

In that case, I apologize. Almost all questions posted here about
registry tools are about so-called registry cleaners.

 

[WinField]

Easy: You don't need a registry tool. Any registry tool.

Until recently, I believed this 'Old Wives Tale' myself.

After a spiffy cleaning & compacting of my registry, my computer
boots faster and runs great. Stuff that got cleaned out was basically
several hundred links pointing nowhere (sorta like Ted Zieglar's logic
above) and left-over Zieglars that uninstalls had left behind.

NO ERRORS WERE FIXED ! ... though I did have something in mind. The
anomaly remains. I agree that Reg_Cleaners cannot fix stuff. And of
course, the pucker factor is very high when massaging the registry.

* ERUnt - a great little utility to backup the registry hives before
waxing the floors.

* Disk Image or similar to have a complete partition backup.

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Programs I used in above experiment(under W2k & WinXP):
"Registry Booster"
"Registry Fix" - found even more stuff than Booster ...

"AMUST Registry Cleaner" (2003 Server)

CAUTION & disclaimer: use these tools at your own risk.
The anomaly/glitch I have is probably from deleting CLSID's on my
own, while chasing ghosts.

happy holidays,
- winfield

 

[Ted Zieglar]

The joke's on you my friend. Nothing in this world is 100% good or 100%
bad. Registry cleaners used indiscriminately - which is how they are
usually used - have a much higher percentage of bad than good. I ain't
putting the integrity of my system into their hands.

Of course, other people feel differently. Their posts often start like
this: "I used <name of registry cleaner> and now my computer <listing of
damage>."

 

[Pop`]

The joke's on you my friend. Nothing in this world is 100% good or
100% bad. Registry cleaners used indiscriminately - which is how they
are usually used - have a much higher percentage of bad than good. I
ain't putting the integrity of my system into their hands.

Of course, other people feel differently. Their posts often start like
this: "I used <name of registry cleaner> and now my computer <listing
of damage>."

And many others, when they bother to respond, which isn't often because
they're quite happy and not reading here, start with "They are great for ...
" etc. As the previous poster indicated. Your first sentence I preceive as
a 100% reference, which you disclaim in the following sentence, no offense
intended.

The "wrong" cleaner in the hands of a neophyte -could- cause problems, but
in general they're quite handy utilities for many different things. I
haven't been without one for well over a decade and wouldn't be without it
at any time in the future. But you know that because I've said it
before<g>.

Pop`

 

[Ted Zieglar]

This topic has been exhaustively covered in these newsgroups so there's
nothing more I'm going to add. When I refer to a poster as 'my friend'
that's an indication I mean them no ill will.

But while I have your attention...what's the ' after your nom de guerre
all about?

 

[Pop`]

This topic has been exhaustively covered in these newsgroups so
there's nothing more I'm going to add. When I refer to a poster as
'my friend' that's an indication I mean them no ill will.

But while I have your attention...what's the ' after your nom de
guerre all about?

If you're asking me, I have no idea what you refer to; that's got to be
someone else.

Pop`

 

[Ted Zieglar]

Not to belabor the point, but in my newsreader (Thunderbird) your name
appears as P-o-p followed immediately by a single quotation mark, like
this: Pop'

Is this how you intended it or is the extra character something my
newsreader is adding in? Just curious, that's all. No problems.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Shows up as Pop` in OE, Ted. Pop with a Grave Accent at the end, the symbol
on the Tilde key on the keyboard.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Ted Zieglar]

Good, so it isn't just my newsreader (or my dirty monitor). And it is,
as you point out, an 'accent grave'. I was just wondering what it was
for, just wondering, that's all, since accent grave is placed over a
vowel so far as I know.

 

[Trevor Hirst]

lol now im interested to hear the meaining of this "floating" accent grave

 

[Pop`]

Ah, I see. It's there on purpose. At one time I used it to trick a poser
pretending to be me; if the name showed up without the apostrophe, whatever
it is, the post wasn't from me. It worked and I guess I just carried it
forward from habit.
I use similar tactics but with non-standard characters as sort of a
"certificate" in many of my e-mails, too; a poor man's certificate, sort of.

Regards,

Pop`

 

[Pop`]

Shows up as Pop` in OE, Ted. Pop with a Grave Accent at the end, the
symbol on the Tilde key on the keyboard.

Actually, that's precisely what it is, Wes.

Pop`

 

[Pop`]

lol now im interested to hear the meaining of this "floating" accent
grave

Nothing special; just an indentifier I use.

Pop`

 

[Wesley Vogel]

No different then someone using ~SomeName.

Or asterisk Protean Thread asterisk.

If I type an * on either side of a word, OEQuotefix shows that word in
*BOLD*. That's why I didn't type *Protean Thread*. ;-)

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Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In

 

[WinField]

The joke's on you my friend. Nothing in this world is 100% good or 100%
bad. Registry cleaners used indiscriminately - which is how they are
usually used - have a much higher percentage of bad than good. I ain't
putting the integrity of my system into their hands.

It boils down to "who do you trust".

I have several older programs on my system that leave EVERYTHING up to
the user. This could get hairy.

RegSupreme
RegCleaner (not RegClean by MicroSoft)

These two puppies inundate the user with a huge listing, not
categorized. The humble computer geek must scan through a lot of items,
many of which aren't clearing identifiable.

Heck, the other night I ran SpyBot, and it gave me erroneous paths to
WordPad and OutLook Express. When I double-checked, the paths actually
WERE correct. Sheesh.

Sorry about how SLOW your computer is running. All those dead links,
ya'know. =~P

Winf