Re: Registry Cleaner

Tech-Archive recommends: Speed Up your PC by fixing your registry

dairyman wrote:
victoratsympatico.ca wrote:
I am thinking of buying a registry cleaner. Any recommendations of
which one may be best. Thanks.

Vic


CCleaner is a safe registry and HDD cleaner. I've being using it for a long time and never had any problems.


CCleaner's registry scanner seems relatively benign, as long as you step through each detected "issue" one at a time, to determine if it really is an "issue" or not, and then decide whether or not to let the application "fix" it. In my testing, though, most of the reported "issues" won't be issues, at all. I tried the latest version on a brand-new OS installation with no additional applications installed, and certainly none installed and then uninstalled, and CCleaner still managed to "find" over a hundred allegedly orphaned registry entries and dozens of purportedly "suspicious" files, making it clearly a worthless product, in this regard. (Not that any registry cleaner can ever be anything but worthless, as they don't serve any useful purpose, to start with.)

CCleaner's only real strength, and the only reason I use it, lies in its usefulness for cleaning up unused temporary files from the hard drive; as a registry "cleaner," it's not significantly better or worse than any other snake oil product of the same type.


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