Re: Reg Cleaner

Today Ken Blake, MVP commented courteously on the subject at
hand

william wrote:

best free one is what in your opinion?


The best one is none at all, whether or not it's free. They
are all dangerous. The registry doesn't need to be cleaned.
Extra registry entries don't hurt you. The risk of a
registry cleaner hurting you (deleting an entry you need)
isn't necessarily enormous, but it's much greater than any
potential benefit it may have.

I generally agree with this, particularly for newbies. Except
that nearly every app stores entries that never get removed by
Windoze, even upon a proper Add/Remove Programs uninstall.
And, since this often leads to trouble - not to mention
Windoze corrupting its own Registry without warning - a
prudently used advanced cleaner or editor is needed. I use
JV16 Powertools.

Simple example: I needed to uninstall/reinstall PSP 9. I knew
enough to look but was astounded to see /over/ 5,000 orphaned
Registry entries /after/ a full uninstall and Corel's
zapsp.exe cleaner. Ditto for any problems with anything Roxio
or anything Symantec. I run JV16 about once a month /after/
setting a RP and regularly get 100-200 orphaned or "useless"
Registry entries.

Bill the Gates could generate tens of billions for himself and
put all the utility writers instantly out-of-business by the
simple expedient of developing and selling an M$ solution to
an oft-repeated problem. But, then, I'd not have much
confidence of the writer of an OS knowing how to fix it.

And, for them following my rants about MVPs, your response is
exactly why I lump you all into my lack of respect garbage
bin. /Any/ kind of sweeping generalization, including mine
about MVPs, is /always/ wrong, but I've never seen an MVP not
adhere to the company line.

--
ATM, aka Jerry

"Whether You Think You CAN Or CAN'T, You're Right." ? Henry
Ford
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