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On Mon, 5 May 2008 08:54:57 -0700, "Gary S. Terhune" none wrote:

ALL registry cleaners are VERY dangerous to your system, and will
actually
FIX a problem, even just "slowness", approximately NEVER.

I run Regseeker regularly and never had a problem. I have never seen
it fix any problems, but it does remove a lot of useless junk.
Without such programs, it seems to me that the registry would get so
huge that it would be crash prone. For example, lets say I created a
folder called "JUNK". I used that folder to temporarily place a bunch
of things I find on my hard drive, which are everything from text, or
Wordpad notes, to downloaded pictures, file downloads, etc. Then I
begin sorting out the junk, and use winzip to open many of the
downloads, and some photo viewer to look at the pictures, and Wordpad
to look at many of the notes. ALL of these things are documented in
the registry. Wordpad, Winzip, Photo Viewers all store "recently
opened files".



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I agree with Gary Terhune 100% .

Sure, you could run the cleaner and maybe it would not hurt anything...
and perhaps it would remove a few un-needed registry keys...
but from running Windows...you'd not notice any difference in performance.


Could someone please give me a good estimate of how many registry entries
that would be likely to exist and a typical Win98 installation???


I usually tell folks something like this:

What is removing a few un-needed registry keys going to do...
when your registry has perhaps 10,000 entries or more?


(That 10,000 figure was just a guess on my part...and I must say it was an
un-educated one.)

BTW: Since I often play with old, junk machines I have tested a number of
registry cleaners
and at least a few times, they *did *do some minor damage...
I'm sure they could potentially do some real damage.