I'm not singling you out John, because you sound like a
reasonable person. But, this does seem a good place to
make a few comments on the arguement s being presented:

Very true and well said John, except that it's the
cleaning of the registry that isn't resulting in any
speed increases, as would be expected, not solely the
use of ccleaner or any other "cleaner" for the
registry.

Personally, rather than this arguing and restating
things, I think checking to see if the OP is open to
input is in order and if so, then addressing his
initial problem is even more in order. IIRC no one but
me has chosen to offer him any understanding of what
cleaning the registry might accomplish, and where he
can look after that's done, assuming it doesn't improve
anything perceptibly. But it's been lost in all the
arguing and even egocentric comments flying around.
The OP be damned, the arguing factions are insisting on
taking over the thread at the OP's expense. This
happens way too often here lately and should be
stopped.

Regards John,

Pop`



John Barnett MVP wrote:
yes, DHS, I do use CCleaner and, as I have stated in
my
original post, regularly recommend it but, unlike
you, I
haven't seen any speed increase through its use. Once
again I have to quote Bruce Chambers in as much as
"CCleaner's sole strength lies in its usefulness for
cleaning up unused temporary files from the hard
drive."
If there is any performance, and without testing it
rigourously solely for the purpose of ascertaining
any
increase in performance I would have to say that any
such
claim to fame regarding current increase in
performance,
if indeed there is any, is negligible.
--

"D. Spencer Hines" wrote in
message ...
There you have it.

Even this MVP uses it.

So do I.

It's a very useful tool.

DSH

"John Barnett MVP" wrote
in
message
...

I have to say that I recommend CCleaner and use I
[sic]
regularly myself....