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Please recommend an already tested Registry Cleaner Tool. Thank You |
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David wrote:
Hello, Please recommend an already tested Registry Cleaner Tool. Thank You I recommend "No Operator Need Experiment", known as NONE. Effortless to use (you do nothing) and your registry will continue to work fine. Seriously, registry "cleaners" are *not needed*, and can do as much harm as possible good. If you must remove a stubborn problem-causing registry entry from an old program, use Regedit to find all instances of it, and delete them individually. Tony ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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David wrote:
Hello, Please recommend an already tested Registry Cleaner Tool. Thank You Why do you even think you'd ever need to clean your registry? What specific *problems* are you actually experiencing (not some program's bogus listing of imaginary problems) that you think can be fixed by using a 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. After all, why use a chainsaw 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 wide-spread multiple changes simultaneously. The only thing needed to safely clean your registry is knowledge and Regedit.exe. 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 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 repeatedly 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. 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. More importantly, no one has ever demonstrated that the use of an automated registry "cleaner," particularly by an untrained, inexperienced computer user, does any real good, whatsoever. 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. Given the potential for harm, it's just not worth the risk. Granted, most registry "cleaners" won't cause problems each and every time they're used, but the potential for harm is always there. And, since no registry "cleaner" has ever been demonstrated to do any good (think of them like treating the flu with chicken soup - there's no real medicinal value, but it sometimes provides a warming placebo effect), I always tell people that the risks far out-weigh the non-existent benefits. I will concede that a good registry *scanning* tool, in the hands of an experienced and knowledgeable technician or hobbyist can be a useful time-saving diagnostic tool, as long as it's not allowed to make any changes automatically. But I really don't think that there are any registry "cleaners" that are truly safe for the general public to use. Experience has proven just the opposite: such tools simply are not safe in the hands of the inexperienced user. -- 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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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 |
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The other posters' comments mirror my own thoughts on the matter. One thing
that hasn't been said is that the reg cleaners have undo files to reverse any changes made. That's fine providing a problem caused by the cleaner shows up immediately and you think to use the undo file. However, suppose the problem doesn't show up for two weeks because you haven't used a particular program. Do you think that you will even remember running the reg cleaner two weeks earlier and think to use the undo file? Just too much risk using these programs with very little documented benefit. -- Regards Ron Badour MS MVP 1997 - 2008 "David" wrote in message ... Hello, Please recommend an already tested Registry Cleaner Tool. Thank You |
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Ron Badour wrote:
The other posters' comments mirror my own thoughts on the matter. One thing that hasn't been said is that the reg cleaners have undo files to reverse any changes made. That's fine providing a problem caused by the cleaner shows up immediately and you think to use the undo file. However, suppose the problem doesn't show up for two weeks because you haven't used a particular program. Do you think that you will even remember running the reg cleaner two weeks earlier and think to use the undo file? Just too much risk using these programs with very little documented benefit. Absolutely. Ron is right - I speak from experience. Ditch the registry cleaner idea. Tony ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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David wrote:
Hello, Please recommend an already tested Registry Cleaner Tool. Thank You The best one is none (seriously). Unless you understand the registry well enough to be able to capably use regedit, and then only by knowing exactly what you are looking for. Otherwise, it is best to observe the Keep Out signs posted there. |
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"David" wrote in message ... Hello, Please recommend an already tested Registry Cleaner Tool. Thank You To answer your question as simply as possible try 'TrashReg'. No bells and whistles but seems to be effective at what it is designed to do. Whether you need to 'clean' the Registry of redundant entries is another subject and has been addressed and debated extensively. |
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David wrote:
Hello, Please recommend an already tested Registry Cleaner Tool. Thank You Still if you "have to have one", then I like Tune Up Utilities 2008. It comes with one, but it has cleaners to delete old temp files, and many more utilities. And as some have suggested, the reg cleaner allows for selective exceptions to the automated clean, and a back. Not that I've used the backup, but it does work. I find it nice to run when I delete a program and it leaves entries. I usually isolate those entries and forget the others. Like others have said, I don't know why they are there, I just know I deleted program xyz, thus any reference to xyz I know I should delete. I write it up to a poor uninstall program. It has a defrag for the registry, but I'd stay away from that too. And I'll re-iterate, if you don't have a good solid backup routine, nix this whole idea. If Microsoft wanted the user to 'clean' his registry, you think there might have been one on the menu? |
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this whole idea. If Microsoft wanted the user to 'clean' his registry,
you think there might have been one on the menu? In fact, MS had a registry cleaner back in the W98 days called RegClean. It was as destructive as any of the other cleaner products I've seen. MS finally scrapped it. -- Regards Ron Badour MS MVP 1997 - 2008 |
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Edward W. Thompson wrote:
To answer your question as simply as possible try 'TrashReg'. No bells and whistles but seems to be effective at what it is designed to do. Thank you for your suggestion. Looks good. |
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Big Al wrote:
Still if you "have to have one", then I like Tune Up Utilities 2008. Thanks Big Al. I already know this one but appreciate it anyway. |
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Ron Badour wrote:
In fact, MS had a registry cleaner back in the W98 days called RegClean. It was as destructive as any of the other cleaner products I've seen. MS finally scrapped it. Ron, as far as I remember there were also a variation of RegClean that was much better. |
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What is it designed to do?
"Edward W. Thompson" wrote in message ... "David" wrote in message ... Hello, Please recommend an already tested Registry Cleaner Tool. Thank You To answer your question as simply as possible try 'TrashReg'. No bells and whistles but seems to be effective at what it is designed to do. Whether you need to 'clean' the Registry of redundant entries is another subject and has been addressed and debated extensively. |
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David wrote:
In fact, MS had a registry cleaner back in the W98 days called RegClean. It was as destructive as any of the other cleaner products I've seen. MS finally scrapped it. Ron, as far as I remember there were also a variation of RegClean that was much better. There was only one version. |
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