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Old January 13th 08, 07:45 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize,microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Edward W. Thompson
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Default registry cleaner and back up


"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message
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On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 06:18:33 -0000, "Edward W. Thompson"
wrote:


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On the contrary, anyone can read for themselves in these newsgroups how
registry cleaners have damaged posters' installations, frequently
beyond
repair.

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Whereas I agree with the many cautionary remarks concerning Registry
Cleaners and their potential for damaging to the Registry I do not, at
present, agree with the suggestion that they will damage the system
beyond
repair.



I don't think any of us has ever said that they "*will* damage the
system beyond repair."

The point is only that they *may* do this--That the risk of their
making the system unbootable is always there.

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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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I do not disagree with much of what you have posted now and in the past
except I find it difficult to accept that sometimes a Registry Cleaner will
damage the system to the extent it is beyond repair and at other times it
does not. Logic tells me that if a Registry Cleaner is so poorly coded to
remove entries that are essential to the OS then that/those entries will be
removed each time the 'Cleaner' is run. Hence the event will be repeatable.
I don't think you can have your cake and eat it :-) by saying the damage
only happens sometimes or on a particular machine, or it depends upon the
phase of the moon.

Your response to my recent post gives me the impression that you believe I
support the indiscriminate use of Registry Cleaners, I do not. However,
those that support their use make wild statements to support their alleged
benefits but equally those that challenge these assertions are also guilty
of making statements that they are failing to support by objective evidence.
To date I have not seen any evidence that says that a certain Registry
Cleaner removes a certain Registry entry which will result in the machine
not booting. Does such evidence exist? If it did I suspect it would
quickly be reported and the author of the program would correct the
shortcoming. As a question, do you have a suggestion that would account for
why after the use of a Registry Cleaner only sometimes a machine would not
be bootable?

The suggestion that because someone seeks help because a machine is not
bootable and it is found the client has used a Registry Cleaner is not
objective evidence it was the Registry Cleaner that caused the problem. I
suggest that there are many occasions when a machine is not bootable after
the client has tinkered with the Registry using Regedit.


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