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A decent regsirty cleaner?
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Rottie
Diamond Member
This Crap Cleaner will clean up your registery safe and clean. It is free...Everybody recommands this nifty program.
theprodigalrebel
Lifer
Seconded.
Give Away of the Day is offering a register cleaner today. I know nothing about this particular program, though.
Can anyone here define for me *exactly* what a registry cleaner does, and why I'd want to run it? Not a general "Well, it looks in the registry for old stuff and removes it", but a technical description of exactly what it does and why I'd want to run it?
For the OP: IMHO, I don't suggest running any registry cleaners. If there's a problem in your registry, you don't want some random program from some non-Microsoft random programmer fiddling with it.
What is the specific problem you wish to solve in running this registry cleaner?
"roblems with the Windows Registry are a common cause of Windows crashes and error messages. Registry problems can occur for many reasons, including references left behind after uninstallation; incorrect removal of software; missing or corrupt hardware drivers; or orphaned start-up programs. This will significantly increase the Registry size and slow down your computer, because Windows will need more time to load, search, and read data from the Registry"
I googled that first sentence and got links to 20 different "registry cleaners", all slightly different. What is to guarantee any can do their job?
Well sure - the registry is where all of Windows configuration data is kept. But that's not to say you want some random program jumping in there and removing things without your knowledge. Do *you* understand why it wants to remove all of the data it finds?
So.... install programs the first time which you trust and which actually work.... ?
Oh, if you've got a 486 and 128MB of RAM, maybe, but with an even remotely modern machine you're talking millionths of a second, and the entire thing typically lives in memory cache anyway, so ... who cares?
The risk is significant - people don't understand what they're removing, remove things that _should_ be in the registry, and in general are giving lots of third party programs carte blanch to screw with their computer's registry - in spite of the fact that most people running it cannot point to an actual problem.
(Yes, if you have an actual problem let's talk about it...that's what I'm hoping someone can address)
Does anyone have any *technical* reasoning here, not marketingspeak?
Well sure - the registry is where all of Windows configuration data is kept. But that's not to say you want some random program jumping in there and removing things without your knowledge. Do *you* understand why it wants to remove all of the data it finds?
So.... install programs the first time which you trust and which actually work.... ?
Oh, if you've got a 486 and 128MB of RAM, maybe, but with an even remotely modern machine you're talking millionths of a second, and the entire thing typically lives in memory cache anyway, so ... who cares?
The risk is significant - people don't understand what they're removing, remove things that _should_ be in the registry, and in general are giving lots of third party programs carte blanch to screw with their computer's registry - in spite of the fact that most people running it cannot point to an actual problem.
(Yes, if you have an actual problem let's talk about it...that's what I'm hoping someone can address)
Does anyone have any *technical* reasoning here, not marketingspeak?
lxskllr
No Lifer
I'll give my reason for using a registry cleaner a couple of weeks ago. I'm usually against using registry cleaners, but I had a new computer with some issues having crapware trying to install.
I got a new Lenovo laptop, and I had to remove most of the garbage that came preloaded. Most of it uninstalled nicely, but I had big problems with the Wordperfect office suite. It wouldn't uninstall through control panel(always locked up), and I couldn't properly get rid of it. I deleted all traces I could find of the app. I got rid of the folder, all references I could find in hidden folders, and went through the registry by hand trying to get rid of this garbage. Every time I launched the sidebar, the Wordperfect installer would start 😕 I tried all of the manual methods I could to get rid of this without success, so I ended up using CCleaner.
Interestingly enough, that didn't get rid of the problem in the registry either. It did turn up in the remove installed programs section, and I deleted the entry from there. I used the cleaner as a last ditch effort to fix my computer without reinstalling everything( I should have just reformatted, and reinstalled in the first place, but I already had the computer partially setup, and didn't want to lose the changes I already made).
So moral of the story...Registry cleaners have their place, but I think they're far overused by most people. Regedit is what the registry should be cleaned with, but if you can't get it straight using that, and are willing to reinstall your O/S if something goes wrong, a registry cleaner can be used. They won't speed up anything, there are no normal problems that can be fixed using one, but if you have a very specific issue a cleaner can sometimes help.
I got a new Lenovo laptop, and I had to remove most of the garbage that came preloaded. Most of it uninstalled nicely, but I had big problems with the Wordperfect office suite. It wouldn't uninstall through control panel(always locked up), and I couldn't properly get rid of it. I deleted all traces I could find of the app. I got rid of the folder, all references I could find in hidden folders, and went through the registry by hand trying to get rid of this garbage. Every time I launched the sidebar, the Wordperfect installer would start 😕 I tried all of the manual methods I could to get rid of this without success, so I ended up using CCleaner.
Interestingly enough, that didn't get rid of the problem in the registry either. It did turn up in the remove installed programs section, and I deleted the entry from there. I used the cleaner as a last ditch effort to fix my computer without reinstalling everything( I should have just reformatted, and reinstalled in the first place, but I already had the computer partially setup, and didn't want to lose the changes I already made).
So moral of the story...Registry cleaners have their place, but I think they're far overused by most people. Regedit is what the registry should be cleaned with, but if you can't get it straight using that, and are willing to reinstall your O/S if something goes wrong, a registry cleaner can be used. They won't speed up anything, there are no normal problems that can be fixed using one, but if you have a very specific issue a cleaner can sometimes help.
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