Re: Why you need a registry cleaner

On Aug 14, 9:20 am, "Shenan Stanley" <newshel...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Me wrote

What makes you think that they don't. There are many areas of the
registry that are not reveled by regedit. An interesting key is named
"SECRETS"
Unknown wrote:
What secrets key?
Shenan Stanley wrote:
Likely referring to:
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/WindowsNT/Registry...
Unknown wrote:
No such key on my system.

*grin*
Oh - it's there.

Why does Microsoft enable these things to go on?
If any other company tried that, they would get yelled at or sued.

I see a new breed of applications that don't make use of the
registry : http://www.portableapps.com
But even the U3 http://www.u3.com family of apps that run off U3 USB
drives sometimes leave things in the
registry after a clean eject of the drive!

.

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