Re: Why you need a registry cleaner

You need to rethink the following:
1. Microsoft needs to come up with a program to clean the registry------Of
What?
2.What do you think the registry was intended for?
3. Microsoft can delete their own entries because they know what they are.
Do you know how the registry should be used? I think you're confused.
<bjoey@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
On 08/01/07 11:09 am bjoey@xxxxxxxx wrote:

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...

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! :)


That's not how it works when it comes to releasing new versions of
Windows. The philosophy seems to be: "Now that we've fixed the most
serious bugs and security holes in the old version, it's time to release
a new version, collect lots of money form the suckers, then start trying
to fix the new version." (Look at XP and Vista.)

It appears that Microsoft has indoctrinated all their MVPs to
discourage the use of Registry Cleaners.
While an element of risk is there, there appears to be no easy way to
get unwanted entries out of the registry now.

I believe Microsoft should come up with a program to clean the
registry (like they have done in the past).
If some Software Vendor loses their entries in the registry as a
result, they probably didn't conform to Microsoft's vision of what the
registry was intended for.
If Microsoft starts deleting their own entries as a result, maybe they
have no idea how their registry should be used too! :)



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