Re: Best Registry Cleaner for vista
On 7/9/2007 4:31 PM On a whim, keepout@yahoo.com.invalid pounded out on
the keyboard
> On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:18:54 -0500, Adam Albright <AA@ABC.net> wrote:
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>> On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:31:44 -0400, keepout@yahoo.com.invalid wrote:
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>>> On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 23:37:37 -0500, OzBoy <OzBoy.2tfsx3@no-mx.forums.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Understand exactly where you coming from but wouldn't it be best to
>>>> have a thread titled "Are registry cleaners any good?" and then let
>>>> people put there comments up. This thread is entitled best registry
>>>> cleaner for windows and over 6 pages I think only 4 are mentioned.
>>> The best registry cleaner is NO REGISTRY cleaner. But if you have to poke around in the registry, just fire up regedit. Make a backup of your registry, and have at it.
>> You just defeated your own argument. The whole point of using a
>> Registry Cleaner is to AVOID "poking around" in your Registry using
>> the build-in regedit. That for sure is how to get in trouble.
> Yeah let some program, created by who knows. What's their experience level ? What's the disclaimer say ? "Use at your own risk'. If the one that created it feels the need to add something like that, that's not putting any plusses in the confidence column.
> Anything that messes with the registry if it's worth anything, it WON'T let you do anything to the registry until you've made a backup. Why is that ?
> What a registry cleaner can do, won't make enough difference to make it noticeable.
>
>> Myth: Since the Registry is just a text file, deleting a handful of
>> invalid keys has minimal effect on reducing the size of the size
>> of the Registry thus no value is realized.
>>
>> Truth: Just a few orphaned keys can REALLY slow down the system
>> because Windows will invest time trying to follow the
>> instructions that no longer point to any valid file. How
>> much impact this has on performance depends on WHAT kind of
>> junk is left behind. So even removing just a few invalid
>> keys while it has no impact on the size of the Registry
>> can have a major impact on how fast Windows loads and how
>> well the system runs.
>
> The registry is NOT a roadmap. If a program is removed, but leaves keys, there's no program left to look for those keys. The key's just become extra data on the hard drive that is never accessed again.
>
>. Why windows would bother to look for something it isn't asked to look for makes no sense
Did you ever open a file on a floppy drive, remove the floppy and
Windows curiously asks why it can't locate the file afterwards? Oops,
just a shortcut in "Recent Documents". Why is Windows bothering "to
look for something it isn't asked to look for makes no sense". But it
happens.
I just installed a clean temp batch file into a client machine last
week. When the batch file was executed, an error appeared about a
"sym... cannot be located" (it was a Symantec reference). I looked and
NAV wasn't installed, nor could I find any other Symantec program. I
searched the registry and found dozens (maybe hundreds) of references to
old Symantec programs installed. I removed them all, ran the batch file
and it executed fine. "Why windows would bother to look for something it
isn't asked to look for makes no sense"
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Terry R.
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