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Free Registry Cleaner Download Review
The registry is a very sensitive component of the windows operating system which can most often be the core of any problems you may experience. The reason why is because it contains very important information about your computers hardware and software configurations which are stored in the form of registry keys. So basically every time you decide to add or remove software or upgrade hardware, those relevant entries in the registry will change.This causes it to become "clogged up" and will eventually lead to problems with functionality of programs and general performances. It would be great if computers would constantly function as if they were new, but unfortunately as time passes the average pc user will install and remove various software from their pc causing problems. We all know what a pain it can be when a computer starts acting sluggish and won't respond to certain actions we give and this can be sorted out by using registry cleaners. There are quite a few of these software programs available for download on the internet of which some will perform better than others. I would like to briefly review one of them which has been voted as the top registry cleaner available on the net. It's called Reg Cure.... Registry Repair: http://groups.google.com/group/regrepairsbv |
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DANGER! D ANGER! Free Registry Cleaner Download Review
ALL registry cleaners are VERY dangerous to your system, and will actually
FIX a problem, even just "slowness", approximately NEVER. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com |
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Free Registry Cleaner Download Review
SPAM!
Think your Registry needs "cleaning" or "repairing"? Read http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=28099 and draw your own conclusions. -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ |
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DANGER! D ANGER! Free Registry Cleaner Download Review
wrote in message ... On Mon, 5 May 2008 08:54:57 -0700, "Gary S. Terhune" none wrote: ALL registry cleaners are VERY dangerous to your system, and will actually FIX a problem, even just "slowness", approximately NEVER. I run Regseeker regularly and never had a problem. I have never seen it fix any problems, but it does remove a lot of useless junk. Without such programs, it seems to me that the registry would get so huge that it would be crash prone. For example, lets say I created a folder called "JUNK". I used that folder to temporarily place a bunch of things I find on my hard drive, which are everything from text, or Wordpad notes, to downloaded pictures, file downloads, etc. Then I begin sorting out the junk, and use winzip to open many of the downloads, and some photo viewer to look at the pictures, and Wordpad to look at many of the notes. ALL of these things are documented in the registry. Wordpad, Winzip, Photo Viewers all store "recently opened files". snip I agree with Gary Terhune 100% . Sure, you could run the cleaner and maybe it would not hurt anything... and perhaps it would remove a few un-needed registry keys... but from running Windows...you'd not notice any difference in performance. Could someone please give me a good estimate of how many registry entries that would be likely to exist and a typical Win98 installation??? I usually tell folks something like this: What is removing a few un-needed registry keys going to do... when your registry has perhaps 10,000 entries or more? (That 10,000 figure was just a guess on my part...and I must say it was an un-educated one.) BTW: Since I often play with old, junk machines I have tested a number of registry cleaners and at least a few times, they *did *do some minor damage... I'm sure they could potentially do some real damage. |
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DANGER! D ANGER! Free Registry Cleaner Download Review
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DANGER! D ANGER! Free Registry Cleaner Download Review
Ah gosh I hate to do this, BUT,,,,
As we all know, the registry can become quite bloated with entries which relate to nothing of value, from MRU lists to applications which fill the registry with open files which no longer exist, to applications supposedly removed but actually leave, at times, countless worthless entries; to any number of other things which aren't need, or may have somehow been changed at sometime. We also know or should know that the registry will FAIL or be prone to failure after exceeding a certain size [parsing issues].... which then becomes an issue which may affect recoverability in a time of crisis. All the MVP that I have observed here, have, at some time, posted methods to clean errant registry entries, compact the registry, and otherwise work upon the registry... They also have repeatedly advised, when confronted with ghost entries, bad drivers or applications or otherwise,, advised HOW to *manually* search the registry to *clean it*. I personally have used [and still use] several tools to clean the registry, which IF PROPERLY USED can be relied upon to make a system lean and mean,,, but the key is PROPERLY USED... ANY use of a cleaner should be taken with *a grain of salt*. AUTOMATIC cleaning is not a good idea. IF the user is unfamiliar with the registry, then damage will likely occur. IF, on the other hand, the user familiarizes theirselves with the registry, makes an effort to first increase their knowledge of the entries by searching first to see if they ARE un-needed PRIOR to removal, then the desired results can be achieved. Never overlook the KEY, that personal knowledge and understanding is YOUR responsibility. OR stay away from these cleaners as they MIGHT cause more harm than good. These things ARE after all, relied upon quite heavily during cleanup activities from SpyWare, Virus, and other such activities... -- MEB http://peoplescounsel.orgfree.com -- _________ "Bill in Co." wrote in message ... | wrote: | On Mon, 5 May 2008 08:54:57 -0700, "Gary S. Terhune" none wrote: | | ALL registry cleaners are VERY dangerous to your system, and will | actually | FIX a problem, even just "slowness", approximately NEVER. | | I run Regseeker regularly and never had a problem. I have never seen | it fix any problems, but it does remove a lot of useless junk. | Without such programs, it seems to me that the registry would get so | huge that it would be crash prone. For example, lets say I created a | folder called "JUNK". I used that folder to temporarily place a bunch | of things I find on my hard drive, which are everything from text, or | Wordpad notes, to downloaded pictures, file downloads, etc. Then I | begin sorting out the junk, and use winzip to open many of the | downloads, and some photo viewer to look at the pictures, and Wordpad | to look at many of the notes. ALL of these things are documented in | the registry. Wordpad, Winzip, Photo Viewers all store "recently | opened files". | | Eventually I get everything put on a CD or other media and I delete | the "Junk" folder. Then I remove several of the demo downloads I tried. | | Running Regseeker finds multiple references to that JUNK folder, | references to Winzip, Wordpad, etc opening files, and many things | relating to the demos I tried and removed. All of that is removed | from the registry, thus keeping it small and clean. Of course I | always read what is being cleaned (removed). 99.9% of the time it's | just this old stuff that is not needed or wanted. | | So how can you say that Reg cleaners are dangerous and should not be | used. | | Because he (and a few others here) know what they're talking about. | | I do agree to be careful what is being removed, but without | them the registry will become a pile of useless garbage. | | Nonsense. | | |
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DANGER! D ANGER! Free Registry Cleaner Download Review
You are absolutely wrong. MRU entries in the Registry are automatically
limited in number at some point and the lists become FIFO in nature. All told, the MRUs add up to a miniscule amount of data, and removing them does not help your system run better, not one bit. Now, if you're *paranoid* and don't want those things in there, there are much better ways to go about keeping them gone. As far as not breaking your system, HOW DO YOU KNOW?!?!? Does your system run perfectly, with no hitches? Never any hiccup, never any blue screens, etc., etc. How about just taking another five seconds to load the first time you reboot or reload an app, while it RE-WRITES what your stupid cleaner just removed? IOW, programs FIXING themselves after your cleaner screws them up? -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com wrote in message ... On Mon, 5 May 2008 08:54:57 -0700, "Gary S. Terhune" none wrote: ALL registry cleaners are VERY dangerous to your system, and will actually FIX a problem, even just "slowness", approximately NEVER. I run Regseeker regularly and never had a problem. I have never seen it fix any problems, but it does remove a lot of useless junk. Without such programs, it seems to me that the registry would get so huge that it would be crash prone. For example, lets say I created a folder called "JUNK". I used that folder to temporarily place a bunch of things I find on my hard drive, which are everything from text, or Wordpad notes, to downloaded pictures, file downloads, etc. Then I begin sorting out the junk, and use winzip to open many of the downloads, and some photo viewer to look at the pictures, and Wordpad to look at many of the notes. ALL of these things are documented in the registry. Wordpad, Winzip, Photo Viewers all store "recently opened files". Eventually I get everything put on a CD or other media and I delete the "Junk" folder. Then I remove several of the demo downloads I tried. Running Regseeker finds multiple references to that JUNK folder, references to Winzip, Wordpad, etc opening files, and many things relating to the demos I tried and removed. All of that is removed from the registry, thus keeping it small and clean. Of course I always read what is being cleaned (removed). 99.9% of the time it's just this old stuff that is not needed or wanted. So how can you say that Reg cleaners are dangerous and should not be used. I do agree to be careful what is being removed, but without them the registry will become a pile of useless garbage. |
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DANGER! D ANGER! Free Registry Cleaner Download Review
Please provide documentation of Registry bloat causing any significant
failures". Only such thing I've heard of is SCANREG /FIX failing to run on a large Registry. BFD. Yes, sometimes the Registry needs work, usually after a wide-spread disaster involving the user doing something that shouldn't have been done, but only an expert is likely to know for sure, and while tools *might* locate a few of those entries, you know better than most, I think, how much of any real Registry *REPAIR*, as opposed to "cleaning", is a painstaking MANUAL search and research procedure that few if any tools do well at all. I used them regularly for several years, to find "crap" and delete it, ALWAYS having to refuse the deletion of some things I had learned weren't a good idea to remove (or were unimportant MRUs, etc.), and after many years of such experience, I arrived at the stance I take now. I've never once had any success helping anyone else by having them run any Registry tools, whereas I have several times dealt with people who were screwed by their Registry tools, even the same ones I'd been using and thought were "idiot-proof". -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "MEB" meb@not wrote in message ... Ah gosh I hate to do this, BUT,,,, As we all know, the registry can become quite bloated with entries which relate to nothing of value, from MRU lists to applications which fill the registry with open files which no longer exist, to applications supposedly removed but actually leave, at times, countless worthless entries; to any number of other things which aren't need, or may have somehow been changed at sometime. We also know or should know that the registry will FAIL or be prone to failure after exceeding a certain size [parsing issues].... which then becomes an issue which may affect recoverability in a time of crisis. All the MVP that I have observed here, have, at some time, posted methods to clean errant registry entries, compact the registry, and otherwise work upon the registry... They also have repeatedly advised, when confronted with ghost entries, bad drivers or applications or otherwise,, advised HOW to *manually* search the registry to *clean it*. I personally have used [and still use] several tools to clean the registry, which IF PROPERLY USED can be relied upon to make a system lean and mean,,, but the key is PROPERLY USED... ANY use of a cleaner should be taken with *a grain of salt*. AUTOMATIC cleaning is not a good idea. IF the user is unfamiliar with the registry, then damage will likely occur. IF, on the other hand, the user familiarizes theirselves with the registry, makes an effort to first increase their knowledge of the entries by searching first to see if they ARE un-needed PRIOR to removal, then the desired results can be achieved. Never overlook the KEY, that personal knowledge and understanding is YOUR responsibility. OR stay away from these cleaners as they MIGHT cause more harm than good. These things ARE after all, relied upon quite heavily during cleanup activities from SpyWare, Virus, and other such activities... -- MEB http://peoplescounsel.orgfree.com -- _________ "Bill in Co." wrote in message ... | wrote: | On Mon, 5 May 2008 08:54:57 -0700, "Gary S. Terhune" none wrote: | | ALL registry cleaners are VERY dangerous to your system, and will | actually | FIX a problem, even just "slowness", approximately NEVER. | | I run Regseeker regularly and never had a problem. I have never seen | it fix any problems, but it does remove a lot of useless junk. | Without such programs, it seems to me that the registry would get so | huge that it would be crash prone. For example, lets say I created a | folder called "JUNK". I used that folder to temporarily place a bunch | of things I find on my hard drive, which are everything from text, or | Wordpad notes, to downloaded pictures, file downloads, etc. Then I | begin sorting out the junk, and use winzip to open many of the | downloads, and some photo viewer to look at the pictures, and Wordpad | to look at many of the notes. ALL of these things are documented in | the registry. Wordpad, Winzip, Photo Viewers all store "recently | opened files". | | Eventually I get everything put on a CD or other media and I delete | the "Junk" folder. Then I remove several of the demo downloads I tried. | | Running Regseeker finds multiple references to that JUNK folder, | references to Winzip, Wordpad, etc opening files, and many things | relating to the demos I tried and removed. All of that is removed | from the registry, thus keeping it small and clean. Of course I | always read what is being cleaned (removed). 99.9% of the time it's | just this old stuff that is not needed or wanted. | | So how can you say that Reg cleaners are dangerous and should not be | used. | | Because he (and a few others here) know what they're talking about. | | I do agree to be careful what is being removed, but without | them the registry will become a pile of useless garbage. | | Nonsense. | | |
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