Re: Registry Cleaners
- From: "Will Denny" <willdenny@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 12:07:53 +0100
"Alias" <aka@[notme]maskedandanonymous.org> wrote in message
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> "Bruce Chambers" <bchambers@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> James wrote:
>>> Are they reasonably safe to use and is there a recommendation in terms
>>> of which is best? I've been in a discussion on another forum in which
>>> several highly tout the new Regseeker. I've read here that most MVP's
>>> (if not all) discourage the use of registry cleaners but I wanted to
>>> make certain that I wasn't misunderstanding something. Thanks.
>>
>>
>> The registry contains all of the operating system's "knowledge" of
>> the computer's hardware devices, installed software, the location of the
>> device drivers, and the computer's configuration. A misstep in the
>> registry can have severe consequences. One should not even turning loose
>> a poorly understood automated "cleaner," unless he is fully confident
>> that he knows *exactly* what is going to happen as a result of each and
>> every change. Having seen the results of inexperienced people using
>> automated registry "cleaners," I can only advise all but the most
>> experienced computer technicians (and/or hobbyists) to avoid them all.
>> Experience has shown me that such tools simply are not safe in the hands
>> of the inexperienced user.
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> On Sunday I removed over 300 entries to the registry using SystemSuite
> 5.0. SS 5.0 has a feature that searches your registry and comes up with a
> list of entries that are not right, catagorized as green, yellow and red.
> The green ones are safe to remove. The yellow and red ones require looking
> at the path and seeing whether you should remove them or leave them alone.
> SS 5.0, unlike regedit, makes a back up of what you've removed to you can
> restore it if something goes wrong. I have been using SS 5.0 for over
> three years and have never, ever, had to restore what I have removed and I
> am no computer expert. I highly recommend SS 5.0 not only for that but for
> the TrendMicro AV and Sygate Firewall. It's clean up is far more thorough
> than XP's resident Disk Clean Up. The also give you Power Desk as a part
> of the deal.
Hi
Color coding Registry entries - who was the brains behind that idea!!??
It's a ridulous suggestion that all the 'green' colored entries are 'safe'
to remove. These are the kind of so called Registry 'cleaners' that can and
do cause untold harm to a system. A lot of people don't know what the paths
for the 'yellow' and 'red' entries may mean to the overall working of the
Registry!!
--
Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
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