On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19
4:21 +0100, "Trimble Bracegirdle"
<no-spam@never.spam> wrote:
> CCleaner is a good program.
Yes, it's good, as long as you don't use its Registry Cleaning
functionality.
> I've relied on it for years to
> keep my XP in good shape.
> BUT do we need it so much in Win 7 (or VISTA) ?
"Need" is too strong a word. It's never been needed. All it does is
make it slightly easier to do things you could always do manually.
> That is do they do a much better & through job of keeping the
> System clean & tidy without additional utilities.
>
> By the way a better more through prog I also use
> is http://www.amltools.com/ REGCLEANER.
Ugh! Ugh to it and to all other Registry Cleaners.
Registry cleaning programs are *all* snake oil. Cleaning of the
registry isn't needed and is dangerous. 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
And also
http://blogs.technet.com/markrussin.../02/registry-junk-a-windows-fact-of-life.aspx
Let me point out that neither I nor anyone else who warns against the
use of registry cleaners has ever said that they always cause
problems. If they always caused problems, they would disappear from
the market almost immediately. Many people have used a registry
cleaner and never had a problem with it.
Rather, the problem with a registry cleaner is that it carries with it
the substantial *risk* of having a problem. And since there is no
benefit to using a registry cleaner, running that risk is a very bad
bargain.
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003