Ah gosh I hate to do this, BUT,,,,

As we all know, the registry can become quite bloated with entries which
relate to nothing of value, from MRU lists to applications which fill the
registry with open files which no longer exist, to applications supposedly
removed but actually leave, at times, countless worthless entries; to any
number of other things which aren't need, or may have somehow been changed
at sometime.
We also know or should know that the registry will FAIL or be prone to
failure after exceeding a certain size [parsing issues].... which then
becomes an issue which may affect recoverability in a time of crisis.

All the MVP that I have observed here, have, at some time, posted methods
to clean errant registry entries, compact the registry, and otherwise work
upon the registry... They also have repeatedly advised, when confronted with
ghost entries, bad drivers or applications or otherwise,, advised HOW to
*manually* search the registry to *clean it*.

I personally have used [and still use] several tools to clean the registry,
which IF PROPERLY USED can be relied upon to make a system lean and mean,,,
but the key is PROPERLY USED... ANY use of a cleaner should be taken with *a
grain of salt*. AUTOMATIC cleaning is not a good idea. IF the user is
unfamiliar with the registry, then damage will likely occur. IF, on the
other hand, the user familiarizes theirselves with the registry, makes an
effort to first increase their knowledge of the entries by searching first
to see if they ARE un-needed PRIOR to removal, then the desired results can
be achieved.

Never overlook the KEY, that personal knowledge and understanding is YOUR
responsibility. OR stay away from these cleaners as they MIGHT cause more
harm than good.

These things ARE after all, relied upon quite heavily during cleanup
activities from SpyWare, Virus, and other such activities...

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"Bill in Co." wrote in message
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| wrote:
| 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".
|
| Eventually I get everything put on a CD or other media and I delete
| the "Junk" folder. Then I remove several of the demo downloads I tried.
|
| Running Regseeker finds multiple references to that JUNK folder,
| references to Winzip, Wordpad, etc opening files, and many things
| relating to the demos I tried and removed. All of that is removed
| from the registry, thus keeping it small and clean. Of course I
| always read what is being cleaned (removed). 99.9% of the time it's
| just this old stuff that is not needed or wanted.
|
| So how can you say that Reg cleaners are dangerous and should not be
| used.
|
| Because he (and a few others here) know what they're talking about.
|
| I do agree to be careful what is being removed, but without
| them the registry will become a pile of useless garbage.
|
| Nonsense.
|
|