Re: Why you need a registry cleaner

On Jul 30, 9:33 am, John John <audetw...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
bj...@xxxxxxxx wrote:
On Jul 28, 4:46 pm, John John <audetw...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

bj...@xxxxxxxx wrote:

And even Microsoft had a utility available for download (called
RegClean.exe) to clean the Windows registry sometime ago.

Yes, you mean that thing that was made to clean Office entries on
Windows 95 comptuters... Was then pulled by Microsoft when it was found
to be unfit for use on any thing other than Windows 95.

Using Google, we see:

"Microsoft article Q147769
(http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q147/7/69.asp)
indicates
that RegClean 4.1a runs on Win2K, NT, Windows Millennium Edition
(Windows
Me), and Windows 9x. Microsoft originally introduced the tool for
Office 97. "

But the article is no longer available!

Yes, because the utility was later found to cause problems with other
software and Microsoft pulled the utility from its site.http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299958

Regclean never was much of any good for anything except cleaning earlier
Office entries on Windows 9x, even on Windows ME, I think before before
Microsoft pulled the application, users started noticing bugs with the
utility.http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=regclean&num=10&scoring=r&as_epq...

Thanks for the info.

And let's not forget Microsoft's other attempts at cleaning the
registry:
scanreg, scanregw and RegMaid.

The need for a registry cleaner is there, and even Microsoft engineers
have attempted it a couple of times.
But they all seem to get pulled if it interferes with any of
Microsoft's revenue producing products :)

Has the Windows registry become too big of a beast for even Microsoft
to manage?
It's basically the "If it works at all, don't mess with it"
philosophy! :)

.

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