Gerry said:
Twayne
So you would agree, on the basis of what you now say, that the "crap"
you have written about Registry Cleaners is a lot of nonsense. You
being, one of a small minority, who regularly advocate their use.
Nope, not at all. You try to insult me, but I don't worry about the
small stuff like you. I've written all factual and correct informatoin
about registry cleaners. The only ones I disagree with are those who
say they are "snakeoil", "never any good", "cannot do anything useful",
"will damage your computer" and similar statements made by some
egotistic narcissists around here. Because I say a registry cleaner CAN
be useful does not mean one should run it every day, and I've never said
any such thing, but you could run one every day, and other than wasting
your time, you would never see any downsides to it as long as it was a
reputable, reliable and properly sourced program.
Anyone that says to NEVER use a registry cleaner because it WILL
damage your system, for the stupid reasons they give, without a drop of
backup, is a fool, and I could make a long sentence out of this, but I
won't.
I have often used registry cleaners for various taks: Most of the time
they accomplish nothing noticeable, the other times they accomplish a
good fix for a problem, and if nothing else, when the TSing leads you to
the registry, they're good for the process of elimination. Of the
hundreds of machines and the many hundreds of times I've used a good
registry cleaner, I have never encountered so much as one event of
damage or detriment to an operating system. And if that did happen, I'd
be able to put the "fix" back and correct the erroneous "fix" that way.
But like I said, it's never happened to me or anyone I respect or have
seen occur.
IME good registry cleaners are more robust than most programs, better
tested and have not, for instance, done any of the damage that Microsoft
itself has done to their own operating system over the years. Partly
because of the robustness of the XP registry heirarchy, and partly
because I know how to choose a useful product, as most any thinking
person can do.
Unless and until someone provides verifiable, repeatable evidence
otherwise, I will continue to believe that those who say to never use
such a thing and how much damage it will cause are simpletons of
yesterday who can/will not open their eyes to see what's right in front
of them.
lol, sorry! I've done a lot of work with registry cleaners and their
breathern, and have considerable positive experience with them. The
ones I use mostly (three of them) are excellent programs and no more
likely to cause any damage to a system than any other program on a
computer. Stuff DOES happen, and eventually I'm sure a negative outcome
WILL result from a registry cleaner, but when it does happen, it will be
no surprise since at ANY time windows can do silly things, "stuff"
happens, and it's silly to say always or never in any continuous,
without exception way because there is no such solidarity in the
universe. THAT is my objection to the misinformationists.
If I say never or always I attach a timeframe to it for occurring in
the past experiences, I don't encompass all time in the universe for
every living person on the earth as the misinfomationists are wont to
do. And if tomorrow the opposite happens to me, it would interest me,
but it would not cause such fear in me as it seems to do in these few
MVP misinformationists and their sock puppets they've been weaning.
What is entertaining about them is the seriousness of which they've
trapped themselves into believing their own tripe and it's even
entertaining to watch them wiggle when someone has the audacity to
actually say their information isn't correct. <g>
Cheers,
Twayne`
