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Do You Believe in Registry Cleaners?
I used to, as a computer novice in the mid 90s and let other people that had
no idea what they were doing talk me into them. I'm not having any problems but I'm sure there are errant files in there that need removed/moved/fixed. Are Reg Cleaners EVER a good idea? Maybe by now they're improved?? If so, are there any "free" reg cleaners you guys would suggest? Thanks, Monica |
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Do You Believe in Registry Cleaners?
On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 19:02:44 -0500, "Monica"
wrote: I used to, as a computer novice in the mid 90s and let other people that had no idea what they were doing talk me into them. I'm not having any problems but I'm sure there are errant files in there that need removed/moved/fixed. Are Reg Cleaners EVER a good idea? Maybe by now they're improved?? If so, are there any "free" reg cleaners you guys would suggest? Thanks, Monica I've tried many over the years and some are more aggressive than others ... sometimes with less than desireable results. I think for most, not necessary but for some who say... install / uninstall a lot perhaps worth considering. Of course the best way is to do a clean install of everything to have a lean clean registry but that's time consuming. So I won't recommend any but do yourself a favor if you try any and make sure you have a recent backup and try to make a restore point prior to using a registry cleaner until you have a lot of confidence in your cleaner. |
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Do You Believe in Registry Cleaners?
On 9/8/2010 8:02 PM, Monica wrote:
I used to, as a computer novice in the mid 90s and let other people that had no idea what they were doing talk me into them. I'm not having any problems but I'm sure there are errant files in there that need removed/moved/fixed. Are Reg Cleaners EVER a good idea? Maybe by now they're improved?? If so, are there any "free" reg cleaners you guys would suggest? Thanks, Monica I can wholeheartedly recommend CCleaner, after using it for several years, and installing it on many clients' computers. The Windows registry does grow and grow and grow, and it has no built-in mechanisms to remove obsolete entries, yet another idiocy of software design from good old Micro$oft. I can say neither I nor my clients have ever, ever had a problem with CCleaner's massaging of the registry. (You do need to be very careful, however, with CCleaner's cleanup of junk files, as there can be unintended consequences from asking it to remove files. CCleaner is far more thorough than Windows' own Disk Cleanup.) I have seen CCleaner remove over 1000 registry entries from old systems that have had the "benefit" of many software installs and reinstalls over the years. When to use a registry cleaner? Use once, if you never have before. Use after every significant Windows update. Use after uninstalling one or more software packages, especially large complicated ones, e.g. an older version of Microsoft Office or an Adobe suite. What are the benefits? Faster system startup is the primary one. Slightly reduced memory usage also occurs, because Windows decodes and loads a working version of the entire registry into memory. Well, not the entire registry. If the system has more than one userid, only the part of the registry applicable to a single user gets loaded. So, if you have a system with multiple userids, run CCleaner for each user. The Windows registry can also become highly fragmented over time. This, too, slows down system startup. Windows defrag does not defrag the registry. Mark Russinovich, once of SysInternals, wrote PageDefrag to defrag the registry, paging file and hibernation file. Microsoft liked Mark's work so much (he has written other good tools, too), that they bought his company, and hired him. Now all the SysInternals software is available on the Microsoft web site. PageDefrag does not work with Vista or Windows 7 though... Ben Myers |
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On 9/8/2010 8:02 PM, Monica wrote:
I used to, as a computer novice in the mid 90s and let other people that had no idea what they were doing talk me into them. I'm not having any problems but I'm sure there are errant files in there that need removed/moved/fixed. Are Reg Cleaners EVER a good idea? Maybe by now they're improved?? If so, are there any "free" reg cleaners you guys would suggest? Thanks, Monica I have used Ccleaner for several years and have never had a problem. It is a temporary files cleaner also. http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner |
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Do You Believe in Registry Cleaners?
So does CCleaner do a registry defrag? I DO have that program but have
never used it. Like I said, I'm not having any issues, everything is running smoothly and zips right along and I'm not one to add/remove programs. This system is 1.5 years old and I've only used 28GB of 320. A friend was running a reg cleaner and it got me to wondering if I should. I've always been a "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" gal but I thought I'd ask you guys what you thought. "Ben Myers" wrote in message ... On 9/8/2010 8:02 PM, Monica wrote: I used to, as a computer novice in the mid 90s and let other people that had no idea what they were doing talk me into them. I'm not having any problems but I'm sure there are errant files in there that need removed/moved/fixed. Are Reg Cleaners EVER a good idea? Maybe by now they're improved?? If so, are there any "free" reg cleaners you guys would suggest? Thanks, Monica I can wholeheartedly recommend CCleaner, after using it for several years, and installing it on many clients' computers. The Windows registry does grow and grow and grow, and it has no built-in mechanisms to remove obsolete entries, yet another idiocy of software design from good old Micro$oft. I can say neither I nor my clients have ever, ever had a problem with CCleaner's massaging of the registry. (You do need to be very careful, however, with CCleaner's cleanup of junk files, as there can be unintended consequences from asking it to remove files. CCleaner is far more thorough than Windows' own Disk Cleanup.) I have seen CCleaner remove over 1000 registry entries from old systems that have had the "benefit" of many software installs and reinstalls over the years. When to use a registry cleaner? Use once, if you never have before. Use after every significant Windows update. Use after uninstalling one or more software packages, especially large complicated ones, e.g. an older version of Microsoft Office or an Adobe suite. What are the benefits? Faster system startup is the primary one. Slightly reduced memory usage also occurs, because Windows decodes and loads a working version of the entire registry into memory. Well, not the entire registry. If the system has more than one userid, only the part of the registry applicable to a single user gets loaded. So, if you have a system with multiple userids, run CCleaner for each user. The Windows registry can also become highly fragmented over time. This, too, slows down system startup. Windows defrag does not defrag the registry. Mark Russinovich, once of SysInternals, wrote PageDefrag to defrag the registry, paging file and hibernation file. Microsoft liked Mark's work so much (he has written other good tools, too), that they bought his company, and hired him. Now all the SysInternals software is available on the Microsoft web site. PageDefrag does not work with Vista or Windows 7 though... Ben Myers |
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Do You Believe in Registry Cleaners?
if it aint broke then no need to fix it......
"Monica" wrote in message ... So does CCleaner do a registry defrag? I DO have that program but have never used it. Like I said, I'm not having any issues, everything is running smoothly and zips right along and I'm not one to add/remove programs. This system is 1.5 years old and I've only used 28GB of 320. A friend was running a reg cleaner and it got me to wondering if I should. I've always been a "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" gal but I thought I'd ask you guys what you thought. "Ben Myers" wrote in message ... On 9/8/2010 8:02 PM, Monica wrote: I used to, as a computer novice in the mid 90s and let other people that had no idea what they were doing talk me into them. I'm not having any problems but I'm sure there are errant files in there that need removed/moved/fixed. Are Reg Cleaners EVER a good idea? Maybe by now they're improved?? If so, are there any "free" reg cleaners you guys would suggest? Thanks, Monica I can wholeheartedly recommend CCleaner, after using it for several years, and installing it on many clients' computers. The Windows registry does grow and grow and grow, and it has no built-in mechanisms to remove obsolete entries, yet another idiocy of software design from good old Micro$oft. I can say neither I nor my clients have ever, ever had a problem with CCleaner's massaging of the registry. (You do need to be very careful, however, with CCleaner's cleanup of junk files, as there can be unintended consequences from asking it to remove files. CCleaner is far more thorough than Windows' own Disk Cleanup.) I have seen CCleaner remove over 1000 registry entries from old systems that have had the "benefit" of many software installs and reinstalls over the years. When to use a registry cleaner? Use once, if you never have before. Use after every significant Windows update. Use after uninstalling one or more software packages, especially large complicated ones, e.g. an older version of Microsoft Office or an Adobe suite. What are the benefits? Faster system startup is the primary one. Slightly reduced memory usage also occurs, because Windows decodes and loads a working version of the entire registry into memory. Well, not the entire registry. If the system has more than one userid, only the part of the registry applicable to a single user gets loaded. So, if you have a system with multiple userids, run CCleaner for each user. The Windows registry can also become highly fragmented over time. This, too, slows down system startup. Windows defrag does not defrag the registry. Mark Russinovich, once of SysInternals, wrote PageDefrag to defrag the registry, paging file and hibernation file. Microsoft liked Mark's work so much (he has written other good tools, too), that they bought his company, and hired him. Now all the SysInternals software is available on the Microsoft web site. PageDefrag does not work with Vista or Windows 7 though... Ben Myers |
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Do You Believe in Registry Cleaners?
On 9/8/2010 9:57 PM, Monica wrote:
So does CCleaner do a registry defrag? I DO have that program but have never used it. Like I said, I'm not having any issues, everything is running smoothly and zips right along and I'm not one to add/remove programs. This system is 1.5 years old and I've only used 28GB of 320. A friend was running a reg cleaner and it got me to wondering if I should. I've always been a "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" gal but I thought I'd ask you guys what you thought. "Ben wrote in message ... On 9/8/2010 8:02 PM, Monica wrote: I used to, as a computer novice in the mid 90s and let other people that had no idea what they were doing talk me into them. I'm not having any problems but I'm sure there are errant files in there that need removed/moved/fixed. Are Reg Cleaners EVER a good idea? Maybe by now they're improved?? If so, are there any "free" reg cleaners you guys would suggest? Thanks, Monica I can wholeheartedly recommend CCleaner, after using it for several years, and installing it on many clients' computers. The Windows registry does grow and grow and grow, and it has no built-in mechanisms to remove obsolete entries, yet another idiocy of software design from good old Micro$oft. I can say neither I nor my clients have ever, ever had a problem with CCleaner's massaging of the registry. (You do need to be very careful, however, with CCleaner's cleanup of junk files, as there can be unintended consequences from asking it to remove files. CCleaner is far more thorough than Windows' own Disk Cleanup.) I have seen CCleaner remove over 1000 registry entries from old systems that have had the "benefit" of many software installs and reinstalls over the years. When to use a registry cleaner? Use once, if you never have before. Use after every significant Windows update. Use after uninstalling one or more software packages, especially large complicated ones, e.g. an older version of Microsoft Office or an Adobe suite. What are the benefits? Faster system startup is the primary one. Slightly reduced memory usage also occurs, because Windows decodes and loads a working version of the entire registry into memory. Well, not the entire registry. If the system has more than one userid, only the part of the registry applicable to a single user gets loaded. So, if you have a system with multiple userids, run CCleaner for each user. The Windows registry can also become highly fragmented over time. This, too, slows down system startup. Windows defrag does not defrag the registry. Mark Russinovich, once of SysInternals, wrote PageDefrag to defrag the registry, paging file and hibernation file. Microsoft liked Mark's work so much (he has written other good tools, too), that they bought his company, and hired him. Now all the SysInternals software is available on the Microsoft web site. PageDefrag does not work with Vista or Windows 7 though... Ben Myers CCleaner does not do a registry defrag. AFAIK, only PageDefrag does... Ben |
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Do You Believe in Registry Cleaners?
On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 20:57:02 -0500, "Monica"
wrote: So does CCleaner do a registry defrag? I DO have that program but have never used it. Like I said, I'm not having any issues, everything is running smoothly and zips right along and I'm not one to add/remove programs. This system is 1.5 years old and I've only used 28GB of 320. A friend was running a reg cleaner and it got me to wondering if I should. I've always been a "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" gal but I thought I'd ask you guys what you thought. The current version does not tho it does clean the registry. To me, it doesn't sound like you need it yet. http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/features |
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Do You Believe in Registry Cleaners?
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Monica wrote: I used to, as a computer novice in the mid 90s and let other people that had no idea what they were doing talk me into them. I'm not having any problems but I'm sure there are errant files in there that need removed/moved/fixed. Are Reg Cleaners EVER a good idea? Maybe by now they're improved?? If so, are there any "free" reg cleaners you guys would suggest? Thanks, Monica The first time I ran CCleaner on an old XP machine I was amazed how much was cleaned up. I run it occasionally on several machinrd if only for the disk space. I've never seen CCleaner repair the registry on any of my machines. -- Al Dykes News is something someone wants to suppress, everything else is advertising. - Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the Daily Mail |
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On Sep 8, 7:02*pm, "Monica" wrote:
I used to, as a computer novice in the mid 90s and let other people that had no idea what they were doing talk me into them. I'm not having any problems but I'm sure there are errant files in there that need removed/moved/fixed. *Are Reg Cleaners EVER a good idea? *Maybe by now they're improved?? *If so, are there any "free" reg cleaners you guys would suggest? Thanks, Monica I have been using TP (CrapCleaner) for many years for file and reg clean-up. Files weekly and reg monthly (or immediately after uninstalling a program). |
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