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Will the old Regclean that worked for Win98 also work for XP? I have it
installed, but I've not ran it yet. Thanks |
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XP looks after the Registry by itself and doesn't need one of these so called Registry 'cleaners'. Using one can cause more problems than it's worth, including rendering a PC unbootable. May I suggest that you let XP deal with the Registry? -- Will Denny MS-MVP Windows Shell/User "Patch" wrote in message ... Will the old Regclean that worked for Win98 also work for XP? I have it installed, but I've not ran it yet. Thanks |
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Regclean 4.1 for Win 9x will completely screw up XP.. do NOT use it..
-- Mike Hall MVP - Windows Shell/user http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "Will Denny" wrote in message ... Hi XP looks after the Registry by itself and doesn't need one of these so called Registry 'cleaners'. Using one can cause more problems than it's worth, including rendering a PC unbootable. May I suggest that you let XP deal with the Registry? -- Will Denny MS-MVP Windows Shell/User "Patch" wrote in message ... Will the old Regclean that worked for Win98 also work for XP? I have it installed, but I've not ran it yet. Thanks |
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XP certainly does not clean up it's registry from programs that do not
uninstall themselves properly and leave loads of dead links behind! "Will Denny" wrote in message ... Hi XP looks after the Registry by itself and doesn't need one of these so called Registry 'cleaners'. Using one can cause more problems than it's worth, including rendering a PC unbootable. May I suggest that you let XP deal with the Registry? -- Will Denny MS-MVP Windows Shell/User "Patch" wrote in message ... Will the old Regclean that worked for Win98 also work for XP? I have it installed, but I've not ran it yet. Thanks |
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That may be the case but I'd have to recommend against using any Windows 98
utilities in XP. If you must use a reg cleaner, you might as well buy one made for XP. "John E. Carty" wrote: XP certainly does not clean up it's registry from programs that do not uninstall themselves properly and leave loads of dead links behind! "Will Denny" wrote in message ... Hi XP looks after the Registry by itself and doesn't need one of these so called Registry 'cleaners'. Using one can cause more problems than it's worth, including rendering a PC unbootable. May I suggest that you let XP deal with the Registry? -- Will Denny MS-MVP Windows Shell/User "Patch" wrote in message ... Will the old Regclean that worked for Win98 also work for XP? I have it installed, but I've not ran it yet. Thanks |
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On the 23/02/2005, John E. Carty wrote:
XP certainly does not clean up it's registry from programs that do not uninstall themselves properly and leave loads of dead links behind! I use the freeware EasyCleaner. It makes a good job on XP. -- Hugues-Antoine Suin |
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Avoid registry cleaners for XP. They will identify left over entries from
installations and a few things like that which are never going to be read again anyway, but the registry is huge and the few hundred you can delete make no difference. The harm from an erroneous deletion, however, can be significant. Your system will not run more efficiently using a registry cleaner. -- Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] (Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested) "Patch" wrote in message ... Will the old Regclean that worked for Win98 also work for XP? I have it installed, but I've not ran it yet. Thanks |
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Patch wrote:
Will the old Regclean that worked for Win98 also work for XP? I have it installed, but I've not ran it yet. Thanks No. Don't use that program on WinXP. There are large differences between Win98's registry and WinXP's. The registry contains all of the operating system's "knowledge" of the computer's hardware devices, installed software, the location of the device drivers, and the computer's configuration. A misstep in the registry can have severe consequences. One should not even consider turning loose a poorly understood automated "cleaner," unless he is fully confident that he knows *exactly* what is going to happen as a result of each and every change. Having seen the results of inexperienced people using automated registry "cleaners," I can only advise all but the most experienced computer technicians (and/or hobbyists) to avoid them all. Experience has shown me that such tools simply are not safe in the hands of the inexperienced user. The only thing needed to safely clean your registry is knowledge and Regedit.exe. If you lack the knowledge and experience to maintain your registry by yourself, then you also lack the knowledge and experience to safely configure and use any automated registry cleaner, no matter how safe they claim to be. Further, no one has ever demonstrated, to my satisfaction, that the use of an automated registry cleaner, particularly by an untrained, inexperienced computer user, does any real good. There's certainly been no empirical evidence offered to demonstrate that the use of such products to "clean" WinXP's registry improves a computer's performance or stability. What specific problem are you experiencing that you *know* beyond all reasonable doubt will be fixed by using an automated registry cleaner? If you do have a problem that is rooted in the registry, it would be far better to simply edit (after backing up, of course) only the specific key(s) and/or value(s) that are causing the problem. Why use a shotgun when a scalpel will do the job? Additionally, the manually changing of one or two registry entries is far less likely to have the dire consequences of allowing an automated product to make multiple changes simultaneously. I always use Regedit.exe. I trust my own experience and judgment far more than I would any automated registry cleaner. I strongly encourage others to acquire the knowledge, as well. -- Bruce Chambers Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. - RAH |
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Although a reg cleaner may not be advised by some, I believe that some
utilities that clean registry entries are good especially those pesky BHOs in the registry. I use S&D spybot & Hijack This which will remove those registry entries. I also have been using jv16 and regcompact without any side effects on XPSP2. But how clean do you need to be? Some orphaned links are harmeless and some may prevent reloading software --- and sometimes its a matter of turning off a service to load/reload. "Patch" wrote in message ... Will the old Regclean that worked for Win98 also work for XP? I have it installed, but I've not ran it yet. Thanks |
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Yes, but Spybot and similar programs are not registry cleaners and registry
cleaners have no way of dealing with spyware. -- Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] (Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested) "plb2862" wrote in message news:zkbTd.21750$Tt.15923@fed1read05... Although a reg cleaner may not be advised by some, I believe that some utilities that clean registry entries are good especially those pesky BHOs in the registry. I use S&D spybot & Hijack This which will remove those registry entries. I also have been using jv16 and regcompact without any side effects on XPSP2. But how clean do you need to be? Some orphaned links are harmeless and some may prevent reloading software --- and sometimes its a matter of turning off a service to load/reload. "Patch" wrote in message ... Will the old Regclean that worked for Win98 also work for XP? I have it installed, but I've not ran it yet. Thanks |
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True they are not and are not meant to be. But they do get rid of BHOs
entries in the registry and other malicious / malignant registry entries and in that respect clean what needs to be removed from the registry. As what is being said is cleaning the registry should be done for performance and to get rid of spyware entries and BHOs. "Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message ... Yes, but Spybot and similar programs are not registry cleaners and registry cleaners have no way of dealing with spyware. -- Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] (Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested) "plb2862" wrote in message news:zkbTd.21750$Tt.15923@fed1read05... Although a reg cleaner may not be advised by some, I believe that some utilities that clean registry entries are good especially those pesky BHOs in the registry. I use S&D spybot & Hijack This which will remove those registry entries. I also have been using jv16 and regcompact without any side effects on XPSP2. But how clean do you need to be? Some orphaned links are harmeless and some may prevent reloading software --- and sometimes its a matter of turning off a service to load/reload. "Patch" wrote in message ... Will the old Regclean that worked for Win98 also work for XP? I have it installed, but I've not ran it yet. Thanks |
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I have used RegCleaner 4.3 with two computers running XP and had absolutely
no problems. In fact, it has come in rather handy at eliminating leftover entries from programs that have been uninstalled. In addition, I just used it yesterday to clean my registry of a corrupted entry for a program that was not working properly. After doing so, I reinstalled the program and all is working well now. |
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