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Old April 4th 08, 09:59 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.performance
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Vista registry cleaner products are less common than those for the
others Windows operating systems since Vista was just launched in
January of 2007. Still, there are quite a few software downloads
available as solutions for Vista registry repair.
Just like XP and Windows 2000 operating systems, Vista contains a
registry and requires specific products to fix corrupt registry files.
Many of the file and key types to be scanned by a Vista registry
cleaner are the same as those in other operating systems, but you will
still need to utilize a product designed to work specifically with
Vista files.
What Attributes are Vital in a Vista Registry Cleaner?




Make sure that the software that you are about to download is designed
to work with Vista. This may seem obvious, but you can cause yourself
more damage than its worth if you use products only designed for
Windows 2000 and XP registry repair.


When possible, aim to have an Internet Explorer scan and cleaner
feature available in the registry software. Vista places a strong
focus on Internet Explorer file structures....

Registry Repair: http://groups.google.com/group/regrepairsbv
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Old April 20th 08, 06:35 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.performance
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There is NO "registry cleaner" that is safe to use on Windows systems.
Period.

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Old April 20th 08, 06:35 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.performance
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There is NO "registry cleaner" that is safe to use on Windows systems.
Period.

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Old May 2nd 08, 09:43 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.performance
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"Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message
...
There is NO "registry cleaner" that is safe to use on Windows systems.
Period.

What about WinASO ? It was highly recommended by CNET (I think )
It seems to work well for me.

R


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Old May 2nd 08, 09:43 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.performance
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"Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message
...
There is NO "registry cleaner" that is safe to use on Windows systems.
Period.

What about WinASO ? It was highly recommended by CNET (I think )
It seems to work well for me.

R


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Old May 3rd 08, 02:12 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.performance
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"Rudy" wrote in message
news:G1LSj.238119$pM4.118669@pd7urf1no...

"Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message
...
There is NO "registry cleaner" that is safe to use on Windows systems.
Period.

What about WinASO ? It was highly recommended by CNET (I think )
It seems to work well for me.

R




Gary is right.
A registry cleaning utility could always be potentially dangerous.
Sure you could run one, remove some "un-necessary" keys perhaps and do no
harm...
but there is always the possibility of doing harm...so it's not worth the
risk.

Considering that there are thousands of registry entries.
(Maybe someone else could give an estimate)
it's not too likely removing a few keys that may no longer be needed would
actually do anything to improve your
system.

For definite registry problems...
it's best left to an expert who can do so manually.


FWIF: Since I am an experimenter (of sorts) and have expendable machines
available...
I have tried many registry cleaners and though they did not always seem to
hurt anything...
there were a numbers of times they did cause some minor damage.
I am sure that had a fooled around some more...I may have seen worse
results.

OTOH: After running a registry cleaner...there was certainly never any
improvement made
in the way the machine performed.

Such things as running anti-spyware utilites,
disk cleanup
and defrag generally do have noticable positve results.

(my 2 cents worth anyway)




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Old May 3rd 08, 02:12 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.performance
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"Rudy" wrote in message
news:G1LSj.238119$pM4.118669@pd7urf1no...

"Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message
...
There is NO "registry cleaner" that is safe to use on Windows systems.
Period.

What about WinASO ? It was highly recommended by CNET (I think )
It seems to work well for me.

R




Gary is right.
A registry cleaning utility could always be potentially dangerous.
Sure you could run one, remove some "un-necessary" keys perhaps and do no
harm...
but there is always the possibility of doing harm...so it's not worth the
risk.

Considering that there are thousands of registry entries.
(Maybe someone else could give an estimate)
it's not too likely removing a few keys that may no longer be needed would
actually do anything to improve your
system.

For definite registry problems...
it's best left to an expert who can do so manually.


FWIF: Since I am an experimenter (of sorts) and have expendable machines
available...
I have tried many registry cleaners and though they did not always seem to
hurt anything...
there were a numbers of times they did cause some minor damage.
I am sure that had a fooled around some more...I may have seen worse
results.

OTOH: After running a registry cleaner...there was certainly never any
improvement made
in the way the machine performed.

Such things as running anti-spyware utilites,
disk cleanup
and defrag generally do have noticable positve results.

(my 2 cents worth anyway)




 




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