Bill Ridgeway wrote:
Ken Blake wrote (in response to another thread) -
Registry cleaning programs are *all* snake oil. Cleaning of the registry
isn't needed and is dangerous. Leave the registry alone and don't use any
registry cleaner. Despite what many people think, and what vendors of
registry cleaning software try to convince you of, having unused registry
entries doesn't really hurt you.

The risk of a serious problem caused by a registry cleaner erroneously
removing an entry you need is far greater than any potential benefit it may
have.

I would agree with the warning of the possibility of (serious) damage to the
Registry and the consequence that the computer may not boot up. I would
also agree that it may not be necessary to clean the Registry very
regularly.


No, it's never necessary to use an automated registry cleaner.


However, the Registry does become bloated with calls to
uninstalled software which does increase the time needed to boot up - at the
very least.


No, that's not true, at all. The registry is an indexed database; the
number of entries are irrelevant to performance or boot time.




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