XP registry cleaners

Hi, can you recommend good free windows xp registry cleaners?

Yes: NONE!

Think your Registry needs "cleaning" or "repairing"? Read
http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=28099 and draw your own conclusions.
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Paulo Roberto wrote:
> Hi, can you recommend good free windows xp registry cleaners?

Not a good idea.
Freeware registry cleaners can trash your PC at no cost $$$ to you.
Those registry cleaner utilities that cost money are best known
for cleaning your wallet and then trashing your PC.

Example #1
Ran a scan to count the number of entries in my PC's registry
Total was over 260,000
So if a registry cleaner (if it worked properly) removed say 1,000 entries
that would be less than one half of one percent space savings.

Example #2
I very recently ran a registry cleaner knowing in advance what some of the
fixes the cleaner should find and the suggested changes.
This was based on the fact I had uninstalled an application (knowing it
would leave some orphaned registry entries) and then reinstalled the same
application to a different directory location.

The cleaner's default suggested fix for the application's old directory
location (the orphaned entries) was to change these entries to the new
location, which was not necessary, so I manually deleted these entries.

Now here is where a registry cleaner could cause a real problem!
A few months ago I removed a large number but not all of the
$NtUninstallKBxxxxxx$ folders
(these are the folders and associated files left behind each time you
install the latest Windows Updates each month)
The cleaner reported the broken registry entries but the suggested fix was
to point the entries to remaining $NtUninstall files (on a random basis)
which I had not removed (the most recent 4 months of updates/patches) thus
royally screwing up the pointers. By that I mean you go to uninstall (in
rare cases) a patch that may be giving you problems and due to the screwed
up registry entry it instead removes the wrong patch.

JS
www.pagestart.com

"Paulo Roberto" <paulo.roberto@edt.com.br> wrote in message
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> Hi, can you recommend good free windows xp registry cleaners?
>

On Jun 22, 7:24*pm, "Paulo Roberto" <paulo.robe...@edt.com.br> wrote:
> Hi, can you recommend good free windows xp registry cleaners?

http://www.ccleaner.com/

good set of shareware utilities

> Yes: NONE!
>
> Think your Registry needs "cleaning" or "repairing"? Read
> http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=28099 and draw your own conclusions.
>
> Paulo Roberto wrote:
>> Hi, can you recommend good free windows xp registry cleaners?

No: WRONG!

> Not a good idea.
> Freeware registry cleaners can trash your PC at no cost $$$ to you.
> Those registry cleaner utilities that cost money are best known
> for cleaning your wallet and then trashing your PC.
>
> Example #1
> Ran a scan to count the number of entries in my PC's registry
> Total was over 260,000
> So if a registry cleaner (if it worked properly) removed say 1,000
> entries that would be less than one half of one percent space savings.
>
> Example #2
> I very recently ran a registry cleaner knowing in advance what some
> of the fixes the cleaner should find and the suggested changes.
> This was based on the fact I had uninstalled an application (knowing
> it would leave some orphaned registry entries) and then reinstalled
> the same application to a different directory location.
>
> The cleaner's default suggested fix for the application's old
> directory location (the orphaned entries) was to change these entries
> to the new location, which was not necessary, so I manually deleted
> these entries.
> Now here is where a registry cleaner could cause a real problem!
> A few months ago I removed a large number but not all of the
> $NtUninstallKBxxxxxx$ folders
> (these are the folders and associated files left behind each time you
> install the latest Windows Updates each month)
> The cleaner reported the broken registry entries but the suggested
> fix was to point the entries to remaining $NtUninstall files (on a
> random basis) which I had not removed (the most recent 4 months of
> updates/patches) thus royally screwing up the pointers. By that I
> mean you go to uninstall (in rare cases) a patch that may be giving
> you problems and due to the screwed up registry entry it instead
> removes the wrong patch.
> JS
> www.pagestart.com
>
> "Paulo Roberto" <paulo.roberto@edt.com.br> wrote in message
> news:ODjhS9L1IHA.1768@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> Hi, can you recommend good free windows xp registry cleaners?

You generally alluded to whatever crappy app you used. But said nothing
to answer the OP's question. Good going.

> Hi, can you recommend good free windows xp registry cleaners?

Someone mentioned ccleaner; it's a decent one. Beware, some of the
no-names are real junk.

Again:
Freeware registry cleaners can trash your PC at no cost $$$ to you.
Those registry cleaner utilities that cost money are best known
for cleaning your wallet and then trashing your PC.

Have tried freeware, shareware and paid versions, all can get you into
trouble.
If there are any registry fixes to be done I do it manually after creating a
backup.

JS

"Twayne" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message
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>
>
>> Not a good idea.
>> Freeware registry cleaners can trash your PC at no cost $$$ to you.
>> Those registry cleaner utilities that cost money are best known
>> for cleaning your wallet and then trashing your PC.
>>
>> Example #1
>> Ran a scan to count the number of entries in my PC's registry
>> Total was over 260,000
>> So if a registry cleaner (if it worked properly) removed say 1,000
>> entries that would be less than one half of one percent space savings.
>>
>> Example #2
>> I very recently ran a registry cleaner knowing in advance what some
>> of the fixes the cleaner should find and the suggested changes.
>> This was based on the fact I had uninstalled an application (knowing
>> it would leave some orphaned registry entries) and then reinstalled
>> the same application to a different directory location.
>>
>> The cleaner's default suggested fix for the application's old
>> directory location (the orphaned entries) was to change these entries
>> to the new location, which was not necessary, so I manually deleted
>> these entries.
>> Now here is where a registry cleaner could cause a real problem!
>> A few months ago I removed a large number but not all of the
>> $NtUninstallKBxxxxxx$ folders
>> (these are the folders and associated files left behind each time you
>> install the latest Windows Updates each month)
>> The cleaner reported the broken registry entries but the suggested
>> fix was to point the entries to remaining $NtUninstall files (on a
>> random basis) which I had not removed (the most recent 4 months of
>> updates/patches) thus royally screwing up the pointers. By that I
>> mean you go to uninstall (in rare cases) a patch that may be giving
>> you problems and due to the screwed up registry entry it instead
>> removes the wrong patch.
>> JS
>> www.pagestart.com
>>
>> "Paulo Roberto" <paulo.roberto@edt.com.br> wrote in message
>> news:ODjhS9L1IHA.1768@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>> Hi, can you recommend good free windows xp registry cleaners?
>
> You generally alluded to whatever crappy app you used. But said nothing
> to answer the OP's question. Good going.
>

I second CCleaner, been using it for quite awhile. There are some people
here being not very nice, but they are correct that many reg cleaners can
mess things up if you are not sure what you are doing and backup, backup
backup. CCleaner does backup what it deletes and shows you what is being
deleted before you do it. It also deletes temp files, cookies, etc. RTFM and
you should be just fine.

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marx404

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"Twayne" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message
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>> Hi, can you recommend good free windows xp registry cleaners?
>
> Someone mentioned ccleaner; it's a decent one. Beware, some of the
> no-names are real junk.
>

Paulo Roberto wrote:
> Hi, can you recommend good free windows xp registry cleaners?
>
>
No such thing, stay away from registry cleaners, they will do more harm
than good.