"D. Spencer Hines" <panther@excelsior.com> wrote in message
news:e9nt9aMIJHA.4060@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Balderdash...
>
> Good software has checks and balances built in -- with full input by the
> user.
>
> CCleaner does an excellent job of cleaning the registry -- and
> incorporating user input -- just as a good physician or attorney does.
>
>snip
What on earth have physicians and attorneys got to do with CCleaner. You are
a really strange person!
I use to be an advocate of Registry Cleaners. I use to try them all and was
quite convinced they were an essential for efficient computer management.
Perhaps in the days pre WINXP they were useful. I read all the cautionary
advice given in the NGs and like you dismissed them. Everytime I
experienced a glitch, time to run a 'cleaner' and I use to have 'glitches'
at regular intervals. I then decided perhaps I should stop running these
Cleaners and see what happens. Now I no longer have these 'glitches' or any
need to restore the Registry (ERUNT) from time to time. My experience has
been sufficient for me to relate machine problems (glitches) with Registry
Cleaners. Before you comment, I do run programs like CCleaner, not the
Registry Cleaner component, and Disk Cleaner regularly to clear out the
'trash' . Actually I think Disk Cleaner is the better of the programs.
What I do question is that Registry Cleaners will or may corrupt the
Registry to the extent of preventing boot up. This statement I simply find
absurd. For a Registry Cleaner to do this it would need to remove/corrupt
Registry entries that are essential to the OS. Even with the most
rudimentary Quality Control the software designer would identify and correct
that before the program was issued. Registry Cleaners certainly do remove
entries that are required by some programs to operate (empty keys no doubt)
and this is where they fall down. I suppose the essential question is, in
what way does the removal of empty and redundant data in the Registry
improve machine performance and/or in what way do empty and redundant keys
impair machine performance. If the machine must read every Registry entry
to permit it to execute a command then the answer is self evident but that
is not the case.
Registry Cleaners are a con. There only value is to give the users of such
programs a 'feel good' feeling. These programs remove entries in the
Registry of entries that do not require removal and by doing so sometimes
'throws the baby out with the bath water'.
Linear Mode
