 Dude111An Awesome DudePremium
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2 edits | One reason why i hate installers! They leave crap all over your registry!! -- Even if you uninstall the program,the install keys,etc are still there on some!!!
I found 28 entries under install (components) to programs i dont have anymore,couldnt believe it..... Things i had gotton rid of long ago!!
Its always good to keep your reg as clean as can be 
I prefer stand alone EXE's .. No crap in the reg! (Or very little if there is)
I have done ALOT OF REG CLEANING lately..... Last week i checked UNINSTALL and found 2 entries... |
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 MospawMy socks don't match.Hawaiian Jellyfish
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Scrubs it clean. I do it once a month and after uninstalls. |
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Dude111An Awesome DudePremium
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I hear ya buddy! |
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 NormanSPremium,MVM
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Re: One reason why i hate installers! said by Dude111:Its always good to keep your reg as clean as can be
Why?
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Dude111An Awesome DudePremium
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Well to keep things as easy for your computer as they can be for one |
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NormanSPremium,MVM
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| said by Dude111:Well to keep things as easy for your computer as they can be for one
My computers have always been easy. No snakeoil needed! 
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PrntRhdPremium
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Fairfield, CA | CCleaner program is not snake oil, but "registry cleaners" can be categorized as such. |
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NormanSPremium,MVM
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| said by PrntRhd:CCleaner program is not snake oil, but "registry cleaners" can be categorized as such.
I don't know what else CCleaner does; only ever see it mentioned in the context of registry cleaning.
Supposedly a registry "gunked up" with orphan entries slows things down. I have no empirical evidence in support of that claim. I recently had a case of "slow browsing"; similar to a saturated upload. Ran a number of diagnostics, but found no evidence of mystery applications uploading stuff. It finally hit me, after a 'tracert' failed for trying to trace to an IPv6 address: I had attempted, unsuccessfully, to establish a '6in4' tunnel to HE. Apparently, the TCP/IP stack decided I was on a pure IPv6 network, and was trying to resolve AAAA records (IPv6) before falling back to A records (IPv4).
I doubt if a registry cleaner could have fixed that. Not even certain about CCleaner. But MS includes a nifty utility, at least since Windows XP. I just ran System Restore to a point prior to my failed attempt to create a 6in4 tunnel. All is now back to normal.
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 John2JonnieI'm An XXy Kinda GirlPremium
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Re: One reason why i hate installers! said by NormanS:said by Dude111:Its always good to keep your reg as clean as can be
Why?
Why?? Why you ask????
Why to keep that 80's minty fresh smell is why I tells ya!
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Registry entries used to be better in the 80s.
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 psafuxPremium,VIP
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Re: said by NormanS:I don't know what else CCleaner does; only ever see it mentioned in the context of registry cleaning.
Supposedly a registry "gunked up" with orphan entries slows things down.
In theory yes. In practicality its a very miniscule amount - an amount that any system built in the last 5 or 6 years is easily able to overcome with near total transparency to the user. It's the same basis with which programmers write (or should write) their code, to be as efficient on resources as possible. It stemmed from the good old days when the processors were slow & inefficient. A modern processor running through an extra 100 lines of code is quite different than it's elderly counterpart running the same code 15+ years ago.
On a sidenote, CCleaner has quite a few handy features aside from registry cleaning. It supports temp file cleaning and provides an environment from which to uninstall applications or remove the entries to those applications from add/remove (in the semi-common case of the program listed but already removed). The same can be done through the Windows registry but CCleaner has a clean interface which avoids issues related to removing wrong registry values. It also has 'secure delete' functionality among other things.
I have used CCleaner for years, I have never had it bork a system and I have never had a customer / friend / family member had a borked system from using it. The same cannot be said about Registry Mechanic, et al. |
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PrntRhdPremium
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NormanS,
Read what psafux posted.
You have to look under Tools in CCleaner to even find the registry cleaner, it is not CCleaner's primary purpose.
CCleaner is a great free utility program that cleans installers and temp files left on the system after badly behaved installers have finished loading programs, something that is all too common.
Registry cleaners have risks, remove just one incorrectly targeted DLL and you just hosed the Windows installation.
The registry cleaner in CCleaner always prompts the user to back up the registry in case something goes badly. |
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 BigBlarg
join:2008-02-10
Longueuil, QC
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Re: One reason why i hate installers! I never cleaned my registers :/
and yet, my computer still feels as fast as when I had installed Windows on it... |
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Revo Uninstaller works for me besides CCleaner. I use both in my arsenal of utilities.
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Dude111An Awesome DudePremium
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Does that scan the reg for keys to programs that you dont have anymore?? (In the INSTALL section) |
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Re: One reason why i hate installers! To counter your problem, may I present to you, our very own, Ccleaner and another rising star..TuneUp utilities. |
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 sivranOpera convertPremium
join:2003-09-15
Arlington, TX
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Re: I have a similar experience with defragging. Minuscule--if any--benefit. |
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 OlegBellsouth FastaccessPremium
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Birmingham, AL
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Re: One reason why i hate installers! Yep. It bugs me to hell. I have to think twice before installing a new app |
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 XiodenPremium
join:2008-06-10
Monticello, NY
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Re: said by sivran:I have a similar experience with defragging. Minuscule--if any--benefit.
If you're just checking email or browsing the web sure. When you go to play a game that's trying to load a couple gigs of data that is split up in 500 places around the hard drive it can begin to make a pretty noticeable difference. |
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