Re: Registry Tool

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

Ted Zieglar wrote:
This topic has been exhaustively covered in these newsgroups so
there's nothing more I'm going to add. When I refer to a poster as
'my friend' that's an indication I mean them no ill will.

But while I have your attention...what's the ' after your nom de
guerre all about?

If you're asking me, I have no idea what you refer to; that's got to be
someone else.

Pop`



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Ted Zieglar
"Backup is a computer user's best friend."

Pop` wrote:
Ted Zieglar wrote:
The joke's on you my friend. Nothing in this world is 100% good or
100% bad. Registry cleaners used indiscriminately - which is how
they are usually used - have a much higher percentage of bad than
good. I ain't putting the integrity of my system into their hands.

Of course, other people feel differently. Their posts often start
like this: "I used <name of registry cleaner> and now my computer
<listing of damage>."

And many others, when they bother to respond, which isn't often
because they're quite happy and not reading here, start with "They
are great for ... " etc. As the previous poster indicated. Your
first sentence I preceive as a 100% reference, which you disclaim in
the following sentence, no offense intended.

The "wrong" cleaner in the hands of a neophyte -could- cause
problems, but in general they're quite handy utilities for many
different things. I haven't been without one for well over a decade
and wouldn't be without it at any time in the future. But you know
that because I've said it before<g>.

Pop`


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Ted Zieglar
"Backup is a computer user's best friend."

WinField wrote:
Ted Zieglar wrote:
Easy: You don't need a registry tool. Any registry tool.
Until recently, I believed this 'Old Wives Tale' myself.

After a spiffy cleaning & compacting of my registry, my computer
boots faster and runs great. Stuff that got cleaned out was
basically several hundred links pointing nowhere (sorta like Ted
Zieglar's logic above) and left-over Zieglars that uninstalls had
left behind. NO ERRORS WERE FIXED ! ... though I did have
something in mind. The anomaly remains. I agree that Reg_Cleaners
cannot fix stuff. And of course, the pucker factor is very high
when massaging the registry. * ERUnt - a great little utility to
backup the registry hives before
waxing the floors.

* Disk Image or similar to have a complete partition backup.

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Programs I used in above experiment(under W2k & WinXP):
"Registry Booster"
"Registry Fix" - found even more stuff than Booster ...

"AMUST Registry Cleaner" (2003 Server)

CAUTION & disclaimer: use these tools at your own risk.
The anomaly/glitch I have is probably from deleting CLSID's on my
own, while chasing ghosts.

happy holidays,
- winfield



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