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Barbara

Flightless Bird
Unable to find any specific category for a registry question so am posting
the question here. The registry on the computer needs to be cleaned. Most
of the errors I am getting are related to registry problems. I am not
computer knowledgeable to clean the registry manually. I wonder if someone
could suggest a good, reliable and trustworthy registry cleaner software and
that would not be too expensive. Thanks!
--
Barbara
 
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Peter

Flightless Bird
On 07/08/2010 05:09 PM, Barbara wrote:
> Unable to find any specific category for a registry question so am posting
> the question here. The registry on the computer needs to be cleaned. Most
> of the errors I am getting are related to registry problems. I am not
> computer knowledgeable to clean the registry manually. I wonder if someone
> could suggest a good, reliable and trustworthy registry cleaner software and
> that would not be too expensive. Thanks!


You can try CCleaner at http://www.ccleaner.com/ Be sure and make a back
up before fixing anything and run it THREE times to catch everything.

--
Peter
 
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John John - MVP

Flightless Bird
Barbara wrote:
> Unable to find any specific category for a registry question so am posting
> the question here. The registry on the computer needs to be cleaned. Most
> of the errors I am getting are related to registry problems.


What *exactly* are these errors?

John
 
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Nil

Flightless Bird
On 08 Jul 2010, =?Utf-8?B?QmFyYmFyYQ==?=
<Barbara@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

> The registry on the computer needs to be cleaned.


What makes you think that?

> Most of the errors I am getting are related to registry problems.


That doesn't mean the registry needs to be "cleaned". But you don't
mention what the errors are, so you're not going to get any help on
that here.

> I am not computer knowledgeable to clean the registry manually. I
> wonder if someone could suggest a good, reliable and trustworthy
> registry cleaner software and that would not be too expensive.


You may have errors or corruption in the registry, but no automatic
"Registry Cleaner" is likely to fix them. You really need to address
the specific problems, not apply the kind of inappropriate shotgun
approach that so-called Registry Cleaners take.

If you decide to use one, be sure to make a complete backup, in case
the "cleaning" kills it entirely. Most likely it will just be a waste
of your time and things will be just as bad as they were before.
 
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Peter Foldes

Flightless Bird
Barbara

What those these errors show. Can you please post them

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"Barbara" <Barbara@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9DEDB1DF-4674-490B-AC0B-42774975B421@microsoft.com...
> Unable to find any specific category for a registry question so am posting
> the question here. The registry on the computer needs to be cleaned. Most
> of the errors I am getting are related to registry problems. I am not
> computer knowledgeable to clean the registry manually. I wonder if someone
> could suggest a good, reliable and trustworthy registry cleaner software and
> that would not be too expensive. Thanks!
> --
> Barbara
 
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Unknown

Flightless Bird
There is no such thing as a good reliable registry cleaner.
"Barbara" <Barbara@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9DEDB1DF-4674-490B-AC0B-42774975B421@microsoft.com...
> Unable to find any specific category for a registry question so am posting
> the question here. The registry on the computer needs to be cleaned.
> Most
> of the errors I am getting are related to registry problems. I am not
> computer knowledgeable to clean the registry manually. I wonder if
> someone
> could suggest a good, reliable and trustworthy registry cleaner software
> and
> that would not be too expensive. Thanks!
> --
> Barbara
 
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Spamlet

Flightless Bird
"Peter" <nospam@nospam.com.invalid> wrote in message
news:i14qje$5f9$2@speranza.aioe.org...
> On 07/08/2010 05:09 PM, Barbara wrote:
>> Unable to find any specific category for a registry question so am
>> posting
>> the question here. The registry on the computer needs to be cleaned.
>> Most
>> of the errors I am getting are related to registry problems. I am not
>> computer knowledgeable to clean the registry manually. I wonder if
>> someone
>> could suggest a good, reliable and trustworthy registry cleaner software
>> and
>> that would not be too expensive. Thanks!

>
> You can try CCleaner at http://www.ccleaner.com/ Be sure and make a back
> up before fixing anything and run it THREE times to catch everything.
>
> --
> Peter


Most of the 'errors' picked up in CCleaner's registry ap are just links to
things like Google Earth, that only resolve when you are online at their
site. You have to have a good knowledge of what is and has been on your
computer, and how each prog works, before you can decide whether an 'error'
is real. By and large it is better just to use this to help you find
suspect entries than to try and 'clean' with it.

There are oodles of warnings about registry cleaners in these columns.

S
 
H

HeyBub

Flightless Bird
Barbara wrote:
> Unable to find any specific category for a registry question so am
> posting the question here. The registry on the computer needs to be
> cleaned. Most of the errors I am getting are related to registry
> problems. I am not computer knowledgeable to clean the registry
> manually. I wonder if someone could suggest a good, reliable and
> trustworthy registry cleaner software and that would not be too
> expensive. Thanks!


Nonsense.

The errors you are getting most certainly point to problems, but the
problems are NOT with the registry. The registry may be involved, but it is
NOT the source of the problems.

Forget about "registry cleaners" (otherwise known as "destroyers of all that
is good and true - there won't BE a Shire!").
 
V

VanguardLH

Flightless Bird
Barbara wrote:

> Unable to find any specific category for a registry question so am posting
> the question here. The registry on the computer needs to be cleaned. Most
> of the errors I am getting are related to registry problems. I am not
> computer knowledgeable to clean the registry manually. I wonder if someone
> could suggest a good, reliable and trustworthy registry cleaner software and
> that would not be too expensive. Thanks!


- What is currently wrong or failing with the registry?
- What convinced you that the registry needs to be "cleaned" up?
- What constitutes the "cleaning" actions?
- What do you expect to gain from the cleanup?
- What are you going to do if the registry changes hose over
your computer since a restore may not be possible?
- What is your recovery strategy from the registry changes?


*_Why the uneducated or lazy should never use registry cleaners_*

If YOU are not adept at *manually* editing the registry, don't use a
tool that you don't understand regarding its proposed changes.
Regardless of relinquishing the task to software, YOU are the final
authority in allowing it to make the changes. Any registry cleaner that
does not request for YOU to give permission to make its proposed changes
along with listing each proposed change should be discarded.

Do you have a backup & restore plan in place? When (and not if) the
registry cleaner corrupts your registry and when you can no longer boot
into Windows, just how are you going to restore that OS partition so it
is usable again? Even if you use a registry cleaner that provides for
backups of its changes so you can revert back to the prior state, how
are you going to perform that restore if you cannot boot the OS after
hosing over its registry? A registry cleaner that [automatically]
backups up a copy of the registry before you permit it to make changes
to the registry sounds nice but that feature is only usable if you can
actually load the OS to then run that utility to restore from its
backup. You need something ELSE to ensure you can restore your OS to a
prior state so it is bootable and usable, like an image backup (full or
incremental). If you don't backup then you have deemed your data as
worthless or reproducible.

What about entries in the registry that look to be orphaned under the
current OS load instance but are used under a different OS environment?
You delete what looks orphaned only to find out that they are required
under a different environment.

Say there was an unusually high amount of orphaned entries in your
registry, like 4MB. By deleting the orphaned entries, you would speed
up how long it takes Windows to load the registry's files when it starts
up - by all of maybe 1 second. Oooh, aaah. All that risk of modifying
the registry to save maybe a second, or less, during the Windows
startup. Most folks that clean the registry end up deleting only 10KB,
or less. They are doing nothing to improve their Windows load time.
Since the registry is only read from the memory copy of it, and since
memory is random access, there is no difference to read one byte of the
registry (in memory) from the another byte in the registry (also in
memory). The extra data in memory for orphaned entries has no effect on
the time to retrieve items from the memory copy of the registry because
orphaned entries are never retrieved (if they were, they aren't
orphaned).

Cleaning the registry will NOT improve performance in reading from the
memory copy of the registry. The reduced size of the registry's .dat
files might reduce the load time of Windows by all of a second and
probably much less. And you want to risk the stability of your OS for
inconsequential changes to its registry? The same boobs that get
suckered into these registry cleanup "tools" are the same ones that get
suckered into the memory defragment "tools".

A registry cleaner should only be used if you by yourself can correctly
cleanup the registry. The cleaner is just a tool to automate the same
process but you should know every change that it intends to make and
understand each of those changes. After all, and regardless of the
stagnant expertise that is hard coded into the utility, *YOU* are the
final authority in what registry changes are performed whether you do it
manually or with a utility. If YOU do not understand the proposed
change (which requires the product actually divulge the proposed change
before committing that change), how will you know whether or not to
allow that change?
 
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PA Bear [MS MVP]

Flightless Bird
If you ever think your Registry needs to be cleaned, repaired, boosted,
tuned-up, cured, tweaked, fixed, or optimized (it doesn't), read
http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=28099 and draw your own conclusions.

Also see
http://blogs.technet.com/markrussin.../02/registry-junk-a-windows-fact-of-life.aspx

Barbara wrote:
> Unable to find any specific category for a registry question so am posting
> the question here. The registry on the computer needs to be cleaned.
> Most
> of the errors I am getting are related to registry problems. I am not
> computer knowledgeable to clean the registry manually. I wonder if
> someone
> could suggest a good, reliable and trustworthy registry cleaner software
> and
> that would not be too expensive. Thanks!
 
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Bruce Chambers

Flightless Bird
Barbara wrote:
> Unable to find any specific category for a registry question so am posting
> the question here. The registry on the computer needs to be cleaned.



What makes you think so?


> Most
> of the errors I am getting are related to registry problems.



What makes you think so?


> I am not
> computer knowledgeable to clean the registry manually.



Then you're certainly not knowledgeable enough to determine whether or
not the registry has anything to with your unidentified problems, much
less to safely use any sort of registry "cleaner."


> I wonder if someone
> could suggest a good, reliable and trustworthy registry cleaner software and
> that would not be too expensive. Thanks!



Simply put, there is no such thing.

Why would you even think you'd ever need to clean your registry?
What specific *problems* are you actually experiencing (not some
program's bogus listing of imaginary problems) that you think can be
fixed by using a registry "cleaner?"

If you do have a problem that is rooted in the registry, it would
be far better to simply edit (after backing up, of course) only the
specific key(s) and/or value(s) that are causing the problem. After
all, why use a chainsaw when a scalpel will do the job? Additionally,
the manually changing of one or two registry entries is far less likely
to have the dire consequences of allowing an automated product to make
multiple changes simultaneously. The only thing needed to safely clean
your registry is knowledge and Regedit.exe.

The registry contains all of the operating system's "knowledge" of
the computer's hardware devices, installed software, the location of the
device drivers, and the computer's configuration. A misstep in the
registry can have severe consequences. One should not even turning
loose a poorly understood automated "cleaner," unless he is fully
confident that he knows *exactly* what is going to happen as a result of
each and every change.

Having repeatedly seen the results of inexperienced people using
automated registry "cleaners," I can only advise all but the most
experienced computer technicians (and/or hobbyists) to avoid them all.
Experience has shown me that such tools simply are not safe in the hands
of the inexperienced user. If you lack the knowledge and experience to
maintain your registry by yourself, then you also lack the knowledge and
experience to safely configure and use any automated registry cleaner,
no matter how safe they claim to be.

More importantly, no one has ever demonstrated that the use of an
automated registry "cleaner," particularly by an untrained,
inexperienced computer user, does any real good, whatsoever. There's
certainly been no empirical evidence offered to demonstrate that the use
of such products to "clean" WinXP's registry improves a computer's
performance or stability. Given the potential for harm, it's just not
worth the risk.

Granted, most registry "cleaners" won't cause problems each and
every time they're used, but the potential for harm is always there.
And, since no registry "cleaner" has ever been demonstrated to do any
good (think of them like treating the flu with chicken soup - there's no
real medicinal value, but it sometimes provides a warming placebo
effect), I always tell people that the risks far out-weigh the
non-existent benefits.

I will concede that a good registry *scanning* tool, in the hands
of an experienced and knowledgeable technician or hobbyist can be a
useful time-saving diagnostic tool, as long as it's not allowed to make
any changes automatically. But I really don't think that there are any
registry "cleaners" that are truly safe for the general public to use.
Experience has proven just the opposite: such tools simply are not safe
in the hands of the inexperienced user.

A little further reading on the subject:

Why I don't use registry cleaners
http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=643

AumHa Forums • View topic - AUMHA Discussion: Should I Use a Registry
Cleaner?
http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=28099


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Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand Russell

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has
killed a great many philosophers.
~ Denis Diderot
 
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Bruce Chambers

Flightless Bird
Peter wrote:
>
> You can try CCleaner at http://www.ccleaner.com/ Be sure and make a back
> up before fixing anything and run it THREE times to catch everything.
>



CCleaner's only strength, and the only reason anyone should use it,
lies in its usefulness for cleaning up unused temporary files from the
hard drive. It differs from the native Windows tool in that it allows
more granular control and you can specify which folders you want
scanned. For instance, WinXP's disk cleaner will examine only the
profile folders of the user who is running the utility. On a
single-user machine, this is fine, but on a family or other mult-use
machine, the ability to clean temorary files from all of the user
profiles at once is a great time saver.

It's registry cleaner, however, is worthless. I've tested the most
recent recent version (with all updates) version on a brand-new OS
installation with no additional applications installed, and certainly
none installed and then uninstalled, and CCleaner still managed to
"find" over a hundred allegedly orphaned registry entries and dozens of
purportedly "suspicious" files, making it clearly a *worthless* product,
in this regard. (Not that any registry cleaner can ever be anything but
worthless, as they don't serve any *useful* purpose, to start with.)



--

Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand Russell

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has
killed a great many philosophers.
~ Denis Diderot
 
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a

Flightless Bird
"Bruce Chambers" <bchambers@cable0ne.n3t> wrote

> It's registry cleaner, however, is worthless. I've tested the most recent recent version (with all updates) version on a
> brand-new OS installation with no additional applications installed, and certainly none installed and then uninstalled, and
> CCleaner still managed to "find" over a hundred allegedly orphaned registry entries and dozens of purportedly "suspicious" files,
> making it clearly a *worthless* product, in this regard.


Interesting! My Dad swears by CCleaner, even though I've told him it's just a placebo.
 
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Twayne

Flightless Bird
In news:uSlFHcwHLHA.5700@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl,
Bruce Chambers <bchambers@cable0ne.n3t> typed:
> Peter wrote:
>>
>> You can try CCleaner at http://www.ccleaner.com/ Be sure
>> and make a back up before fixing anything and run it THREE
>> times to catch everything.

>
>
> CCleaner's only strength, and the only reason anyone
> should use it, lies in its usefulness for cleaning up
> unused temporary files from the hard drive. It differs
> from the native Windows tool in that it allows more
> granular control and you can specify which folders you want
> scanned. For instance, WinXP's disk cleaner will examine
> only the profile folders of the user who is running the
> utility. On a single-user machine, this is fine, but on a
> family or other mult-use machine, the ability to clean
> temorary files from all of the user profiles at once is a
> great time saver.
> It's registry cleaner, however, is worthless. I've
> tested the most recent recent version (with all updates)
> version on a brand-new OS installation with no additional
> applications installed, and certainly none installed and
> then uninstalled, and CCleaner still managed to "find" over
> a hundred allegedly orphaned registry entries and dozens of
> purportedly "suspicious" files, making it clearly a
> *worthless* product, in this regard. (Not that any
> registry cleaner can ever be anything but worthless, as
> they don't serve any *useful* purpose, to start with.)


Neat; a product provides you with information about the contents of your
registry, so you call it worthless. Now there's a piece of real advice!!
Yup, you sure proved it here, didn't you? lol, so pathetic!
 
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Twayne

Flightless Bird
In news:4c37154d$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au,
a <b@invalid.com> typed:
> "Bruce Chambers" <bchambers@cable0ne.n3t> wrote
>
>> It's registry cleaner, however, is worthless. I've
>> tested the most recent recent version (with all updates)
>> version on a brand-new OS installation with no additional
>> applications installed, and certainly none installed and
>> then uninstalled, and CCleaner still managed to "find"
>> over a hundred allegedly orphaned registry entries and
>> dozens of purportedly "suspicious" files, making it
>> clearly a *worthless* product, in this regard.

>
> Interesting! My Dad swears by CCleaner, even though I've
> told him it's just a placebo.


Clearly your Dad is smarter than you are. And more realistic and i'll bet a
much more open mind also.
 
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Twayne

Flightless Bird
In news:ef9qZJrHLHA.1868@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl,
John John - MVP <audetweld@nbnot.nb.ca> typed:
> Barbara wrote:
>> Unable to find any specific category for a registry
>> question so am posting the question here. The registry on
>> the computer needs to be cleaned. Most of the errors I am
>> getting are related to registry problems.

>
> What *exactly* are these errors?
>
> John


That's a good question; no judgements of any kind can be made yet on the
little infrormation provided so far. Not only what exactly ARE the errors,
but what is producing them? It could well be malware for all we know and
would be typical of such an infestation.

HTH,

Twayne`
 
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Twayne

Flightless Bird
A condescengingly ignorant and misinformationist reply to a legitimate
question posed by a legitimate user. Ol' Brucey here respects little but
himself. Just ignore.

HTH,

Twayne`


In news:eUXtNbwHLHA.5700@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl,
Bruce Chambers <bchambers@cable0ne.n3t> typed:
> Barbara wrote:
>> Unable to find any specific category for a registry
>> question so am posting the question here. The registry on
>> the computer needs to be cleaned.

>
>
> What makes you think so?
>
>
>> Most
>> of the errors I am getting are related to registry
>> problems.

>
>
> What makes you think so?
>
>
>> I am not
>> computer knowledgeable to clean the registry manually.

>
>
> Then you're certainly not knowledgeable enough to determine
> whether or not the registry has anything to with your
> unidentified problems, much less to safely use any sort of
> registry "cleaner."
>
>> I wonder if someone
>> could suggest a good, reliable and trustworthy registry
>> cleaner software and that would not be too expensive. Thanks!

>
>
> Simply put, there is no such thing.
>
> Why would you even think you'd ever need to clean your
> registry? What specific *problems* are you actually
> experiencing (not some program's bogus listing of imaginary
> problems) that you think can be fixed by using a registry
> "cleaner?"
> If you do have a problem that is rooted in the
> registry, it would be far better to simply edit (after
> backing up, of course) only the specific key(s) and/or
> value(s) that are causing the problem. After all, why use
> a chainsaw when a scalpel will do the job? Additionally,
> the manually changing of one or two registry entries is far
> less likely to have the dire consequences of allowing an
> automated product to make multiple changes simultaneously. The only thing
> needed to safely clean your registry is
> knowledge and Regedit.exe.
> The registry contains all of the operating system's
> "knowledge" of the computer's hardware devices, installed
> software, the location of the device drivers, and the
> computer's configuration. A misstep in the registry can
> have severe consequences. One should not even turning
> loose a poorly understood automated "cleaner," unless he is
> fully confident that he knows *exactly* what is going to
> happen as a result of each and every change.
> Having repeatedly seen the results of inexperienced
> people using automated registry "cleaners," I can only
> advise all but the most experienced computer technicians
> (and/or hobbyists) to avoid them all. Experience has shown
> me that such tools simply are not safe in the hands of the
> inexperienced user. If you lack the knowledge and
> experience to maintain your registry by yourself, then you
> also lack the knowledge and experience to safely configure
> and use any automated registry cleaner, no matter how safe
> they claim to be.
> More importantly, no one has ever demonstrated that the
> use of an automated registry "cleaner," particularly by an
> untrained, inexperienced computer user, does any real good,
> whatsoever. There's certainly been no empirical evidence
> offered to demonstrate that the use of such products to
> "clean" WinXP's registry improves a computer's performance
> or stability. Given the potential for harm, it's just not
> worth the risk.
> Granted, most registry "cleaners" won't cause problems
> each and every time they're used, but the potential for
> harm is always there. And, since no registry "cleaner" has
> ever been demonstrated to do any good (think of them like
> treating the flu with chicken soup - there's no real
> medicinal value, but it sometimes provides a warming
> placebo effect), I always tell people that the risks far
> out-weigh the non-existent benefits.
> I will concede that a good registry *scanning* tool, in
> the hands of an experienced and knowledgeable technician or
> hobbyist can be a useful time-saving diagnostic tool, as
> long as it's not allowed to make any changes automatically.
> But I really don't think that there are any registry
> "cleaners" that are truly safe for the general public to
> use. Experience has proven just the opposite: such tools
> simply are not safe in the hands of the inexperienced user.
> A little further reading on the subject:
>
> Why I don't use registry cleaners
> http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=643
>
> AumHa Forums b" View topic - AUMHA Discussion: Should I Use
> a Registry Cleaner?
> http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=28099
 
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Twayne

Flightless Bird
In news:9DEDB1DF-4674-490B-AC0B-42774975B421@microsoft.com,
Barbara <Barbara@discussions.microsoft.com> typed:
> Unable to find any specific category for a registry
> question so am posting the question here. The registry on
> the computer needs to be cleaned. Most of the errors I am
> getting are related to registry problems. I am not
> computer knowledgeable to clean the registry manually. I
> wonder if someone could suggest a good, reliable and
> trustworthy registry cleaner software and that would not be
> too expensive. Thanks!


As a general rule, the registry is almost never the root cause of a
substantial number of problems, which you failed to describe here.
What program is giving you these registry error warnings? It could well
be malware based, in which case you need to do a good virus and spyware
scanning and cleaning before considering the registry.
Post the exact error messages you get, word for word, for analysis of
what they may mean.
Precisely when do you get these messages about registry problems?
Also describe your computer brand, amount of RAM, OS revision (Home, Pro,
etc.), etc.

Then the information can be used to assess what is causing the errors to
happen and whether they may be real or simply a result of malware running on
your computer. My own preliminary suspicions are that you have malware
running and until that is resolved as true or false, any other trouble
shooting is almost surely going to be a waste of time.

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HTH,

Twayne`
 
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milt

Flightless Bird
On 7/8/2010 10:09 AM, Barbara wrote:
> Unable to find any specific category for a registry question so am posting
> the question here. The registry on the computer needs to be cleaned. Most
> of the errors I am getting are related to registry problems. I am not
> computer knowledgeable to clean the registry manually. I wonder if someone
> could suggest a good, reliable and trustworthy registry cleaner software and
> that would not be too expensive. Thanks!


No, your registry does NOT need to be cleaned, where did you get this
idea from? Your registry NEVER needs to be cleaned, compacted or messed
with in ANY way. To do so risks making your computer unbootable and has
ZERO benefits.
 
M

milt

Flightless Bird
On 7/9/2010 7:01 PM, Twayne wrote:
> In news:uSlFHcwHLHA.5700@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl,
> Bruce Chambers<bchambers@cable0ne.n3t> typed:
>> Peter wrote:
>>>
>>> You can try CCleaner at http://www.ccleaner.com/ Be sure
>>> and make a back up before fixing anything and run it THREE
>>> times to catch everything.

>>
>>
>> CCleaner's only strength, and the only reason anyone
>> should use it, lies in its usefulness for cleaning up
>> unused temporary files from the hard drive. It differs
>> from the native Windows tool in that it allows more
>> granular control and you can specify which folders you want
>> scanned. For instance, WinXP's disk cleaner will examine
>> only the profile folders of the user who is running the
>> utility. On a single-user machine, this is fine, but on a
>> family or other mult-use machine, the ability to clean
>> temorary files from all of the user profiles at once is a
>> great time saver.
>> It's registry cleaner, however, is worthless. I've
>> tested the most recent recent version (with all updates)
>> version on a brand-new OS installation with no additional
>> applications installed, and certainly none installed and
>> then uninstalled, and CCleaner still managed to "find" over
>> a hundred allegedly orphaned registry entries and dozens of
>> purportedly "suspicious" files, making it clearly a
>> *worthless* product, in this regard. (Not that any
>> registry cleaner can ever be anything but worthless, as
>> they don't serve any *useful* purpose, to start with.)

>
> Neat; a product provides you with information about the contents of your
> registry, so you call it worthless. Now there's a piece of real advice!!
> Yup, you sure proved it here, didn't you? lol, so pathetic!
>
>


Yeah it provided him FALSE information! How could there be tons of
registry problems with a freshly installed system? Are you a shill for
some company that makes registry cleaners?
 
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