how often do you reinstall Windows XP?

[ivwshane]

Originally posted by: stash
DasFox, it's great that you like the tool and all, but I'm still waiting for you to show me real evidence that a registry cleaner offers any measurable performance benefit. Seat of your pants anecdotal evidence does not count.

I don't see how you could get better evidence than real life use.

Stability is one thing performance is another. I haven't had any stability issues but have never seen any performance increases.

 

[Jiggz]

Except for major upgrade I do not re-install. This one is on a 3rd year and still running great. I do use reg cleaners (I actually have 3 of them, MS Regclean, EasyCleaner and Advance Uninstaller). You can't beat a regclean if you know what you are doing. Since there are thousands and thousands of entries, manually identifying and looking for missing links, missing ClsID, unnecessary entries is almost impossible. Reg cleaners will automate the searching for you. And that's where experience and knowledge of the system comes in. Don't just blanket delete everything that is presented to you by the cleaner. Instead review them and check only those you know for a fact needs to be deleted. The Advance Uninstaller is better since it also incorporates a registry compression utility.

 

[stash]

"real life use" is not quantifiable evidence and is therefore meaningless. Kind of like when you give test patients a placebo in a drug study and they suddenly feel wonderful.