Re: Why you need a registry cleaner

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:22:28 -0700, bjoey@xxxxxxxx wrote:

Unknown wrote:
1. Microsoft needs to come up with a program to clean the registry------Of
What?

References to missing DLLs, shortcuts, remnants of uninstalled
products, etc.

Export your entire registry (1).
Install software product X
Uninstall software product X
Export your entire registry (2).

Shouldn't (1) and (2) be identical?


I agree with you that it should, but as we both know, depending on
what software product X is, it often isn't.

Yes, there are usually extraneous registry entries left over, but from
a practical standpoint it doesn't matter. There is no performance
penalty to their being there and the amount of disk space they waste
is tiny.

My view is that it's *far* safer to leave any such leftover entries in
place than use some automated tool to remove them, with the attendant
risk that it may accidentally remove something needed. Taking a risk
that provides no potential benefit is a bad bargain.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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