Registry Cleanup

I differ from other opinions. Certain times left over registry entries, usually the driver references, affect computer speed. While it requires significant experience with manipulating registry organization, registry cleaners can help removing remanants much more easily so that you do not have to manually remove.

I find CCleaner's registry cleaner to be safe with average users. JV16 Powertools and Iolo Registry Mechanic are extreme level of registry cleaner and cause give you more problems if used incorrectly or without deep understanding. Also, not all backup registry will plug-in back smoothly. Hence for non-technical people CCleaner is enough to clean registry. I agree that CCleaner cleaned registries may not improve computer functionality.

I often use RegAlyzer to "hunt" for remnant registries that are not cleaned when a program has been removed from Control Panel / Uninstall.

On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:30:10 +0000, PMR5 wrote:

My PC seems to be getting "doogier" the more I add/remove programs. Shouls I get a "Registry Cleanup" program.

I don't know what you mean by "doogier," but regardless of what you

mean, no! Definitely not!

Registry cleaning programs are all snake oil. Cleaning of the

registry isn't needed and is dangerous. Leave the registry alone and

don't use any registry cleaner. Despite what many people think, and

what vendors of registry cleaning software try to convince you of,

having unused registry entries doesn't really hurt you.

The risk of a serious problem caused by a registry cleaner erroneously

removing an entry you need is far greater than any potential benefit

it may have.

Read http://www.edbott.com/weblog/archives/000643.html

and http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=28099

and also

http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2005/10/02/registry-junk-a-windows-fact-of-life.aspx

Let me point out that neither I nor anyone else who warns against the

use of registry cleaners has ever said that they always cause

problems. If they always caused problems, they would disappear from

the market almost immediately. Many people have used a registry

cleaner and never had a problem with it.

Rather, the problem with a registry cleaner is that it carries with it

the substantial risk of having a problem. And since there is no

benefit to using a registry cleaner, running that risk is a very bad

bargain.

Ken Blake

On Sat, 7 Mar 2015 17:31:42 +0000, NormPeckenpaugh wrote:

how do I cleanup Windows Registry?

See my earlier message in this thread. It doesn't need cleaning up and
trying to clean it up is dangerous. Leave it alone.

Registry clean up programs are pure snake oil, and could lead to a none functioning PC, If you know how to manually edit the registry you can do it yourself, which is preferable to using an automated tool. Generally removing orphan reg.entries leads to no performance increase

how do I cleanup Windows Registry?