Registry cleaner ?

Steve Hayes wrote:
On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:22:54 -0400, John John - MVP
wrote:

Twayne wrote:
In ,
John John - MVP typed:
Don't bother with these utterly useless registry cleaners, they cause
more harm than good.
Completely untrue. Posted from ignorance and to be a gopher for a small
group of registry cleaner libelists. Like any other program, just
source a reliable program from a reliable web site. They don't do any
harm or damage and they also allow you to undo any changes you make anyway.
As usual and in your true form when ever these useless programs are
exposed for what they are you are here to defend your beloved cleaners
and to insult all who disagree with you. However, when people post
seeking help with real problems caused by these cleaners you are nowhere
to been seen. Most of us here have noticed that when it comes to posts
about registry cleaners you have a case of selected blindness, and when
you do reply to posts you usually leave your brains and manners parked
somewhere else.

None of which tells us ANYTHING about why you think we should not use registry
cleaners, and what harm you think they do.

http://groups.google.com/group/micro...b2f696ca1b9462
http://boards.msn.com/safetyboards/t...D%3D 28824491
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic110399.html
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;299958
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888637
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/247678
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...3c7b89f3ba?q=#
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951950
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...1aaebff35bc 6

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...ners-necessary
http://www.edbott.com/weblog/archives/000643.html

They do absolutely nothing to improve performance and reliability of NT
installations and they can and do cause problem. Along with that many
of them carry pests and malware and others are fraudware, you install
them and they muck up your computer and the scam artists who wrote these
snake oil programs try to extort money from you to remove their pests
from your computer. Why bother?

John