Twayne

I do have to disagree with you on this issue. Show me proof on a hard copy to those
facts. Have you seen these Registry Tool issues that were posted by a few OP's
lately saying that their Reg Tools messed up their OS. One even could not boot after
using a Registry Cleaning Tool.

Some posters even remarked that you did not show up in those threads because you
were then going to be proven wrong. I was also one that said the same.

Automated Reg tools in the hand of persons that do not know computers and what the
Registry does have no business using these snake oil remedies

My take on this and period

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"Twayne" wrote in message
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Leonard Grey wrote:
To add to Gerry's typically good advice:

Many people have this vision of the Windows registry: They see Windows
scurrying through the registry and getting stuck in all those
dead-ends left behind by uninstalled software. They think: "this is
surely slowing my computer's performance." However, the registry does
not work that way. Applications make specific calls to registry keys;
they don't go hunting for data.

Another misconception: the "bloated" registry. In theory, if you
remove an unused registry key, it will take less time to load the
registry into memory. However, since a registry key typically
occupies only a few bytes, you would have to remove millions of
registry keys to notice the difference. And even if you could remove
millions of registry keys, the time needed to load, run and then exit
the registry cleaner would outstrip the time saved, by far.

In general, the more you know about the registry, the more you
understand why we like to poke fun at registry cleaners (and the
people who use them.)
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Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

Gerry wrote:
Touch Base

Does Windows Live OneCare have an assured future? It is being
dropped by Microsoft!

The problem is that using a Registry Cleaner gives negligible gains
for a certain risk that any errors it makes are invariably insoluble
problems for all but the most expert users.

Because it bugs you that someone else understands the registry well enough to
write a good program for it, eh? That's nothing but ego and based on myth,
nothing concrete.

They don't mess up any more, and probably less, than even MS's own programs.