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Daave
Flightless Bird
I am in the same camp as most regulars here who wouldn't advise someone
to use a registry cleaner in order to boost a PC's overall
performance/speed. No one has ever been able to provide solid evidence
to back up such a claim.
That being said, whenever I caution people not to use these programs, I
normally add that sometimes these cleaners have been known to cause a
situation where the PC becomes unbootable. I seem to remember reading a
number of posts in these XP newsgroups from people who have reported
this behavior.
But now I wonder. (Memories often are not reliable!) I do value
evidence. But I Googled for instances where this sort of behavior
happens and I couldn't find anything convincing! The closest I could
find was this post:
http://forums.comodo.com/comodo-sys...stem-being-unable-to-boot-t38353.0.html;wap2=
And newsgroup archives? Just a few hits, _total_:
http://groups.google.com/groups/sea...ner"&btnG=Search&sitesearch=groups.google.com
(arguably I could have opened up the search, but 5 results?!)
Then again, Google is nowhere near as good as it once was when it comes
to searching archived Usenet posts. But was I imagining posts mentioning
these occurences?
I still won't be recommending these programs since, again, there is no
evidence they are beneficial. I would imagine if someone is overzealous,
real damage could occur (just like with regedit). But if someone could
point me to some posts where someone actually did have the behavior
described (i.e., not able to boot after running a registry "cleaner" or
"optimizer"), I would appreciate it. Otherwise, I will have to stop
making that claim. (However, until someone provides *real* evidence that
these cleaners boost performance, I will continue to make the claim that
the evidence for *that* does not exist.) Evidence is evidence, and I
feel that my advice is more valuable if it is not tainted by unfounded
opinion.
to use a registry cleaner in order to boost a PC's overall
performance/speed. No one has ever been able to provide solid evidence
to back up such a claim.
That being said, whenever I caution people not to use these programs, I
normally add that sometimes these cleaners have been known to cause a
situation where the PC becomes unbootable. I seem to remember reading a
number of posts in these XP newsgroups from people who have reported
this behavior.
But now I wonder. (Memories often are not reliable!) I do value
evidence. But I Googled for instances where this sort of behavior
happens and I couldn't find anything convincing! The closest I could
find was this post:
http://forums.comodo.com/comodo-sys...stem-being-unable-to-boot-t38353.0.html;wap2=
And newsgroup archives? Just a few hits, _total_:
http://groups.google.com/groups/sea...ner"&btnG=Search&sitesearch=groups.google.com
(arguably I could have opened up the search, but 5 results?!)
Then again, Google is nowhere near as good as it once was when it comes
to searching archived Usenet posts. But was I imagining posts mentioning
these occurences?
I still won't be recommending these programs since, again, there is no
evidence they are beneficial. I would imagine if someone is overzealous,
real damage could occur (just like with regedit). But if someone could
point me to some posts where someone actually did have the behavior
described (i.e., not able to boot after running a registry "cleaner" or
"optimizer"), I would appreciate it. Otherwise, I will have to stop
making that claim. (However, until someone provides *real* evidence that
these cleaners boost performance, I will continue to make the claim that
the evidence for *that* does not exist.) Evidence is evidence, and I
feel that my advice is more valuable if it is not tainted by unfounded
opinion.