Alex Nichol wrote:

Unless someone can show me a good reason to use one I am quite unlikely to
try it again. It seems the risk is too great and the upside is very little.

A good position to take. Most of the items that get cleaned by these
things are orphans, pointing nowhere. but with nothing pointing at them.

Lets say you use a conservative registry cleaner like easy cleaner which
essentially just finds keys to files that are no longer in the place the
key says it is. eg just like you say above. Wouldn't that speed bootup
time ie saves windows from looking for files that are no longer needed
or wanted but your registry is trying to load then on startup?



So they do nothing but take up a little space - usually trivial when set
against the size of he registry. But some cleaners are overly
aggressive and remove items that they do not recognise - but which are
needed. Even if they have an undo, make sure that there is a restore
point to put the registry back exactly as it was. And really, save
waste of time and don't use them