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Old August 4th 04, 05:17 PM
Edward W. Thompson
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Default Registry cleaner

The registry may grow significantly if you add and install programs and
don't uninstall them by 'Add/Remove Programs' facility in the Control Panel.
Even so, I very mach doubt if there is any significant increase in start
time due to Registry 'junk'. There certainly appears to be a pschological
benefit from keeping the Registry lean and mean but probably not a practical
benefit. Each may way for themselves the advantages, real or imaginary,
against the risks.


"The Unknown P" ( ) wrote in message
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Both Doug and Carey are mistaken in my opinion. If you do a lot of

installing\uninstalling and testing of apps then the registry gets bogged
down with useless information and entries. Now while it's true that XP
ignores registry entries that are incorrectly entered or written or have
invalid associations the mere act of checking leads one to believe that slow
down can be the result of a registry full of obsolete entries. I know the
eXPerts will claim this is just microseconds but then they all add up to
seconds don't they. The best that I have had and still use is the old JV16
Power Tools. You can still get the old free one on some sites. For just the
registry cleaner from the tools do and internet search for RegCleaner. }:~)
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There are three types of people in computing, those that can count and

those that can't.


"TheBFG" wrote:

I'm pretty new to XP.
I hesitate to touch the registry but I have beenadvised it is good to

clean it up sometimes. Is that correct? If so,
I want to get a registry cleaner that works well and is easy to use for

a beginner.
Does anyone know a useful utility to do this?
I checked on Google but there are so many.
Any advice appreciated. If you know a good free version that would be

great.
Thanks



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