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| 1343842 | 2013-05-29 04:00:00 | Registry cleaners don't actually repair any registry errors despite the hype. They find entries that are orphaned, left overs from uninstalled programs, or shortcuts to non-existent programs etc. These sort of entries do no harm, but having said that I do use cleaners to periodically to remove junk, like ccleaner, Registry First Aid, or Glary Utils......but you do have to enjoy living dangerously..............:) That is exactly what I do.Never had a problem with it but I do make sure I have an up to date image ready just in case it all goes pear shaped. |
CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1343843 | 2013-05-29 12:52:00 | Registry cleaners don't actually repair any registry errors despite the hype. They find entries that are orphaned, left overs from uninstalled programs, or shortcuts to non-existent programs etc. These sort of entries do no harm....:) Are you sure about that Terry? I view the Registry as a sort of phone book. As time passes entries become out of date so they point to null or void places on the hard drive. The more void arrows the more time is used by the CPU searching. Its always seemed to me that registry cleaning is fundamental to fast computing. Happy to be wrong. :D |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 1343844 | 2013-05-29 20:52:00 | Are you sure about that Terry? I view the Registry as a sort of phone book. As time passes entries become out of date so they point to null or void places on the hard drive. The more void arrows the more time is used by the CPU searching. Its always seemed to me that registry cleaning is fundamental to fast computing. Happy to be wrong. :D You are right Winston, invalid entries may well take up time, but I've never checked that. I really meant they do no harm (generally speaking) in the sense of causing BSODS or preventing Windows booting. If there is a registry error that causes a serious problem, or there is a vital missing entry, the cleaners wont 'repair' that, (AFAIK). |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1343845 | 2013-05-30 00:45:00 | One of my issues is the way the companies that sell reg cleaners operate Flooding the interwebs with bogus reviews paying people to write bogus reviews installing by stealth using scare tactics to get payments: "you have 500 serious issues that need to be fixed , click hear to buy the full version" etc almost fraud in the way most of these companies operate |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1343846 | 2013-05-30 01:43:00 | "click hear to buy the full version" is that to listen to how much it costs? hehe :) |
bevy121 (117) | ||
| 1343847 | 2013-05-30 05:42:00 | Just use CCleaner. | ChazTheGeek (16619) | ||
| 1343848 | 2013-05-30 12:43:00 | NTREGOPT is the only one to trust | apsattv (7406) | ||
| 1343849 | 2013-05-31 03:20:00 | I've seen people say that regcleanpro often formats their harddrive weird thing, so I sau stay away from reg cleaners. unless u really know what u r doing |
har (16834) | ||
| 1343850 | 2013-05-31 03:55:00 | If you really wanted to use cCleaner, but as others have suggested, I wouldn't bother. | LukeM (17091) | ||
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