Registry Cleaners

[thescreensavers]

My firend read an artical that said

I?d go a step further: Don?t run registry cleaner programs, period. I won?t go so far as to call them snake oil, but what possible performance benefits can you get from ?cleaning up? unneeded registry entries and eliminating a few stray DLL files? Even in the best-case scenario the impact should be trivial at best. Maybe a second or two here and there, maybe a few kilobytes of freed-up RAM, and I?m being generous. How can you balance those against the risk that the utility will ?clean? (in other words, delete) something you really need, causing a program or feature to fail?

The Registry is an enormous database and all this ?Cleaning? really doesn?t amount to much?I?ve said this before, but I liken it to ?sweeping out one parking space in a parking lot the size of Montana? ? a registry ?tweak? here and there is desirable or even necessary sometimes, but random ?cleaning?, especially for the novice, is inviting disaster.

Is this true I have a registry cleaner does it relly no do anything or is this artical just some Crap some one put. ANd if Cleaning the registry does do help is there proof?

 

[Nocturnal]

I've had a registry cleaner help me to alleviate an issue I was having with installing IE7. But most of the time I've never really had a registry cleaner help that much. I normally just use CCleaner.com program to clean up any registry entries that have been left behind by programs that were uninstalled.

 

[arcenite]

Another vote for CCleaner

 

[F1shF4t]

I use registry mechanic, and i think its pretty good, why keep entries of files and programs that u already deleted in ur registry?
All i can say is if u do use it dont use the optimise function as that will slow ur pc down, but the scan is pretty good.

 

[overst33r]

ccleaner and regscrubXP

 

[pkme2]

I usually download Ace Utilities which is free to use for 30 days for those clients who really have messed up computers, Its saves time cleaning out registries. It really your choice when it comes down to really screwed registries, when a reformat is out of the question. I don't recommend this for everybody, but if nothing else works...........

 

[thescreensavers]

Originally posted by: Dark Cupcake
I use registry mechanic, and i think its pretty good, why keep entries of files and programs that u already deleted in ur registry?
All i can say is if u do use it dont use the optimise function as that will slow ur pc down, but the scan is pretty good.

I did do that can this be the issue with my comp staying on the welcom screen for 30sec+

 

[iRONic]

Originally posted by: arcenite
Another vote for CCleaner

Make that three...

 

[JimPhelpsMI]

Hi, The registry has to be searched for info. A lean registry probably is much faster to search than a cluttered one. Maybe. Jim