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Al Swearengen
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Re: [Free] Awesome Registry Cleaner-Windows Cleaner 2005

Registry cleaners will eventually bite you in the ass. Here's one example:
»Problem with XP /Nvidia

And remember, a botched registry doesn't necessarily mean catastrophic failure. It can be the cause of many minor, nagging problems that get blamed on software or hardware.

I don't use registry cleaners, and it took me years to learn the lesson. You have to ask yourself if the negligible and unsubstantiated gains in performance are worth the potential trouble.

jabarnut
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said by Al Swearengen:

Registry cleaners will eventually bite you in the ass.
Why couldn't I have said it like that???

I just wrote a total of four posts, approaching the size of a small Encyclopedia, and all I was trying to say was the exact same thing!

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said by jabarnut:
said by Al Swearengen:

Registry cleaners will eventually bite you in the ass.
Why couldn't I have said it like that???

I just wrote a total of four posts, approaching the size of a small Encyclopedia, and all I was trying to say was the exact same thing!
Now you know how it's done

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said by illJazz:

Now you know how it's done
Yes, but if I had said it that way, everyone would have missed out on all that wonderful reading material!

(Not!)

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Re: [Free] Awesome Registry Cleaner-Windows Cleaner 2005

lol!

I couldn't even get to the end of your last monster-post.. my attention span ran away
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Sorry to change the subject for a minute, but did all the "quote boxes" in the former posts just disappear, or is it just me???
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Re: [Free] Awesome Registry Cleaner-Windows Cleaner 2005

holy crap you're right.. somebody's messin with the site again ;)

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Re: [Free] Awesome Registry Cleaner-Windows Cleane

Thanks for confirming....thought I was losing my mind! (again)
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Re: [Free] Awesome Registry Cleaner-Windows Cleaner 2005

said by illJazz:

.. and don't see them as being very dangerous. I do agree that you should know what you're doing if you intend to use a registry cleaner...
There she blows right up, in your face The point remains, from my perspective that one must either wait some considerable time, until a cleaner actually defines the action performed; correlates with the desired result.

There is still no GUI interface that I have seen, that a newb could use or even people a wee bit smarter; that understands the end result of any Reg cleaner. As has been mentioned by salzan, caution with good reason.

Hey, jabarnut ..Think you had some great points...Lol

{Edit} Yer, messing with DSLR again, some people, really need to get a life or find a way to spend their time on constructive *Hug* stuff & leave Evil out the door for 2"

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Indy Sabre
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Re: [Free] Awesome Registry Cleaner-Windows Cleane

Thanks for the post on CCleaner, I was trying to figure out if it was a good registry cleaner for me.

I have been using RegScrubXP - »www.majorgeeks.com/downl ··· det=2048

and it didn't find any of those things so I was leary of letting CC do its thing.

With RegScrubXP it automatically keeps a back up everytime I clean. I found it here in an old thread when I was looking specifically for a cleaner that wasn't overly agressive.

So my take is, that unless you fully understand everything your cleaner is doing (which i don't), pick one that isn't too agressive and one that automatically keeps restore files in an easy uto use interface should you need to restore something you cleaned that you shouldn't of.

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CCleaner does provide a backup/restore function before removing invalid registry entries it finds. After it completes its scan and you click on "fix selected issues", CCleaner pops up a window asking if you want to create a backup and the choice where you want the backup saved.I've created a file called CCleaner Reg. Backup where I keep the backups.
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Thanks for the info, I knew that. In the app I mentioned it is automated and there is a one button click to see all of your backups from within the GUI.

I love CCleaner but for me it just isn't my reg cleaner of choice.
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Re: [Free] Awesome Registry Cleaner-Windows Cleaner 2005

WC 3.5.0.0 beta 2 with new interface is out
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WC beta 3 is out.

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I'm lazy. I like doing FULL installs of my software as I get tired of popping in a CD. So, when I installed Print Artist V12, I elected to put on everything. 7 disc's of data/graphics/fonts. I slammed in MS Publisher 2k, MS Home publisher. Fonts, graphics, and more fonts. I won't mention MS office 2003, wordperfect office and various other space/registry hungry programs.. The ole registry gets so big, I've seen my 500mhz P3 just about out perform my 2.4ghz P4/HT. Twice the ram, 10times the HD space. The registry gets way too big and performance drags in a big way. I got to where I would boot up and go take a shower and comeback just as it was loading it's 38 processes.

Mess with the registry? That's what backups are for. That's what reg restore is for. I've never had a PC that I had to "reinstall everything" because of registry issue. I had hardware issue after an install that required me to "go back" to a previous registry backup but I'm just a average user with enough PC background to get myself out of trouble but it's taken working with win 3.0, 3.1, workgroups, 95, 98se, and now XP to gain the ability to not fear anything MS has to offer. So, when you REALLY want to get ride of anything from, lets say Symantec, do you trust the UNINSTALL program to clean it out? No, I don't and for good reason. It leaves all kinds of junk behind. Cleaning your registry may not give you the boost in speed your looking for but it does help weed out future software issues.