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Malwarebites?
On Mon, 09 Feb 2015 16:48:27 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
wrote: CCleaner usually finds a big list of registry entries designated as surplus after I've installed, uninstalled or upgraded anything big. I've no idea what they are, but I always tell it to remove all of them. Never had any problems as a result of doing this. Consider yourself lucky. Let me point out that neither I nor anyone else who warns against the use of registry cleaners has ever said that they always cause problems. If they always caused problems, they would disappear from the market almost immediately. Many people have used a registry cleaner and never had a problem with it. In my case, it's *never* caused a problem, and I've been using it to manage several computers for several years. I appreciate that it *could* cause problems, but so could lots of things, and it simply hasn't. It seems sensible to me to take precautions appropriate to the level of risk. Rather, the problem with a registry cleaner is that it carries with it the substantial *risk* of having a problem. And since there is no benefit to using a registry cleaner, running that risk is a very bad bargain. What's the worst that could happen? I might have to reinstall Windows, then do a bit of reconfiguring, a tedious task but one I've done so often I could do it in my sleep. I wouldn't lose any of my irreplaceable data because it's on a different drive within the computer and I have external backups as well. I worry about things that need worrying about, but not this. Rod. |
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