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Humpty Dumpty wrote:
"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message ... On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:21:42 -0500, David wrote: Hello, Please recommend an already tested Registry Cleaner Tool. Registry cleaning programs are *all* snake oil. Cleaning of the registry isn't needed and is dangerous. Leave the registry alone and don't use any registry cleaner. Despite what many people think, and what vendors of registry cleaning software try to convince you of, having unused registry entries doesn't really hurt you. The risk of a serious problem caused by a registry cleaner erroneously removing an entry you need is far greater than any potential benefit it may have. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup I just ran for an experiment RegSeeker "clean the registry". It found 569 unnecessary entries. According to your advise, I left them alone. But I looked at the findings, and found them sensible. They are of three types: 1) Obselete entries How could it possibly know what entries are truly obsolete? Have you told it what applications you're using now, and what applications you're going to be installing and using in the future? 2) File or path inexistent. Maybe. Or was it placed there to provide backwards compatibility with an application? 3) Extensions not used. And the makers of the registry cleaner know that you haven't accidentally associated a file type with the wrong application, or that you'll never be installing the pertinent application at some time in the future? The findings are true. The Registry entries really point to garbage. And here comes my question: Supposing I am wise enough to delete only entries which I fully understand and I do not do any harm to the OS, will there be any benefit, such as greater speed, faster loading or shutting down, etc.? TIA Humpty None, whatsoever. (Oh, a subsequent registry scan might be a little quicker, but that's of no real value.) That's why registry reamers are called "snake oil:" Even when they do no harm, they do *nothing* to positively affect (negative results abound) the performance of the computer. At the very most, you'd free up a minuscule and statistically insignificant amount of hard drive space. -- Bruce Chambers Help us help you: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand Russell The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. ~ Denis Diderot |
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"David" wrote in message
... Hello, Please recommend an already tested Registry Cleaner Tool. Thank You Think your Registry needs "cleaning"? Read http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=28099 and draw your own conclusions. -- Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM Do not reply with email |
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"Bruce Chambers" wrote in message ... Humpty Dumpty wrote: "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message ... On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:21:42 -0500, David wrote: Hello, Please recommend an already tested Registry Cleaner Tool. Registry cleaning programs are *all* snake oil. Cleaning of the registry isn't needed and is dangerous. Leave the registry alone and don't use any registry cleaner. Despite what many people think, and what vendors of registry cleaning software try to convince you of, having unused registry entries doesn't really hurt you. The risk of a serious problem caused by a registry cleaner erroneously removing an entry you need is far greater than any potential benefit it may have. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup I just ran for an experiment RegSeeker "clean the registry". It found 569 unnecessary entries. According to your advise, I left them alone. But I looked at the findings, and found them sensible. They are of three types: 1) Obselete entries How could it possibly know what entries are truly obsolete? Have you told it what applications you're using now, and what applications you're going to be installing and using in the future? 2) File or path inexistent. Maybe. Or was it placed there to provide backwards compatibility with an application? 3) Extensions not used. And the makers of the registry cleaner know that you haven't accidentally associated a file type with the wrong application, or that you'll never be installing the pertinent application at some time in the future? The findings are true. The Registry entries really point to garbage. And here comes my question: Supposing I am wise enough to delete only entries which I fully understand and I do not do any harm to the OS, will there be any benefit, such as greater speed, faster loading or shutting down, etc.? TIA Humpty None, whatsoever. (Oh, a subsequent registry scan might be a little quicker, but that's of no real value.) That's why registry reamers are called "snake oil:" Even when they do no harm, they do *nothing* to positively affect (negative results abound) the performance of the computer. At the very most, you'd free up a minuscule and statistically insignificant amount of hard drive space. -- Bruce Chambers Help us help you: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand Russell The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. ~ Denis Diderot OK, thank you all. This settles the point, for me. If so many well informed people agree, there is no point in doing otherwise. I'm not going to buy "intelligent design" when sound science does the job. Humpty |
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"Humpty Dumpty" wrote:
OK, thank you all. This settles the point, for me. If so many well informed people agree, there is no point in doing otherwise. I'm not going to buy "intelligent design" when sound science does the job. God'll getcha for that! g |
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As others have just said, no registry cleaner is the best strategy to
keep your system in peak condition. However, if you really need something then I suggest try this: http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/ Hope this helps. David wrote: Hello, Please recommend an already tested Registry Cleaner Tool. Thank You |
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Or simply use Microsoft's own that runs in the online Live OneCare Safety
Scanner. http://www.microsoft.com/protect/pro...tyscanner.mspx "ANONYMOUS" wrote in message ... As others have just said, no registry cleaner is the best strategy to keep your system in peak condition. However, if you really need something then I suggest try this: http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/ Hope this helps. David wrote: Hello, Please recommend an already tested Registry Cleaner Tool. Thank You |
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On Apr 24, 11:00*am, "Humpty Dumpty" wrote:
"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in messagenews:jhuv041n4dqmj301dmm8s4ct4rtp7t6hvf@4ax .com... On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:21:42 -0500, David wrote: Hello, Please recommend an already testedRegistryCleaner Tool. Registrycleaning programs are *all* snake oil. Cleaning of the registryisn't needed and is dangerous. Leave theregistryalone and don't use anyregistrycleaner. Despite what many people think, and what vendors ofregistrycleaning software try to convince you of, having unusedregistryentries doesn't really hurt you. The risk of a serious problem caused by aregistrycleaner erroneously removing an entry you need is far greater than any potential benefit it may have. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup I just ran for an experiment RegSeeker "clean theregistry". It found 569 unnecessary entries. According to your advise, I left them alone. But I looked at the findings, and found them sensible. They are of three types: 1) Obselete entries 2) File or path inexistent. 3) Extensions not used. The findings are true. TheRegistryentries really point to garbage. And here comes my question: Supposing I am wise enough to delete only entries which I fully understand and I do not do any harm to the OS, will there be any benefit, such as greater speed, faster loading or shutting down, etc.? TIA Humpty through my own experince both CCleaner and Regseeker do a fair job at protecting important things both are free and Regseeker has an autoclean feature and command line switch so you can sechedual cleanings it also has a full backup and restore feature and in anwser to your question yes you might experince some speed enhancements then again you might not alot of the stuff that it will speed up you wont notice in everyday use stuff like the time it takes to load all the s#^ % on the uninstall programs menu you might notice a slight boost in login times or boot speeds all in all dont let these nuts scare you a registry cleaner is not going to "hose" your system the one thing you have to look out for though is just about ANY shareware cleaner stay AWAY if its got a price tag its garbage and infact might actualy eat your system with the exception of a select few enterprise programs and ones that come as part of a utilities suite (norton system works anyone?) another thing you want to look out for is the "Tweakers" if you do want to use a tweaker other than microsoft's tweak ui utility then make a full backup of your reg before you even install it and probly be a good idea to make a system restore point. |
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"Root-dir" wrote in message
... On Apr 24, 11:00 am, "Humpty Dumpty" wrote: "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in messagenews:jhuv041n4dqmj301dmm8s4ct4rtp7t6hvf@4ax .com... On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:21:42 -0500, David wrote: Hello, Please recommend an already testedRegistryCleaner Tool. Registrycleaning programs are *all* snake oil. Cleaning of the registryisn't needed and is dangerous. Leave theregistryalone and don't use anyregistrycleaner. Despite what many people think, and what vendors ofregistrycleaning software try to convince you of, having unusedregistryentries doesn't really hurt you. The risk of a serious problem caused by aregistrycleaner erroneously removing an entry you need is far greater than any potential benefit it may have. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup I just ran for an experiment RegSeeker "clean theregistry". It found 569 unnecessary entries. According to your advise, I left them alone. But I looked at the findings, and found them sensible. They are of three types: 1) Obselete entries 2) File or path inexistent. 3) Extensions not used. The findings are true. TheRegistryentries really point to garbage. And here comes my question: Supposing I am wise enough to delete only entries which I fully understand and I do not do any harm to the OS, will there be any benefit, such as greater speed, faster loading or shutting down, etc.? TIA Humpty through my own experince both CCleaner and Regseeker do a fair job at protecting important things both are free and Regseeker has an autoclean feature and command line switch so you can sechedual cleanings it also has a full backup and restore feature and in anwser to your question yes you might experince some speed enhancements then again you might not alot of the stuff that it will speed up you wont notice in everyday use stuff like the time it takes to load all the s#^ % on the uninstall programs menu you might notice a slight boost in login times or boot speeds all in all dont let these nuts scare you a registry cleaner is not going to "hose" your system the one thing you have to look out for though is just about ANY shareware cleaner stay AWAY if its got a price tag its garbage and infact might actualy eat your system with the exception of a select few enterprise programs and ones that come as part of a utilities suite (norton system works anyone?) another thing you want to look out for is the "Tweakers" if you do want to use a tweaker other than microsoft's tweak ui utility then make a full backup of your reg before you even install it and probly be a good idea to make a system restore point. Think your Registry needs "cleaning"? Read http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=28099 and draw your own conclusions. -- Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM Reply in Newsgroup, not by email. |
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