Re: CCleaner and the Registry

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Bill

I relish brown sauce but I do not need to discuss it night and day.

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Bill in Co. wrote:
He obviously relishes it. :-)

Gerry wrote:
Twayne

It's a waste of my time to discuss Registry Cleaners with you. On
this subject you continue to make a fool of yourself. Bye.

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Twayne wrote:
Gerry,

99% of knowledgeable contributors to newsgroups do not agree with
your views on registry cleaners.

Show me any non-microsoft newsgroup not occupied with the same
closed minds that are here then, which perpetuates the same
information. Perhaps someone on one of those groups has something
to back up their claims, unlike the ignorant closed minds here. I'd
love to read anyone's post/s who may have something intelligent
to support their claimes, unlike the ignorant closed minds here can
provide. What group? Since you quoted 99%, I MUST have already
encountered
many of them; but have not. Maybe 0.99% or 0.0099%. But I KNOW
your 99% figure is unsubstantiated, an ignorant claim, and baseless.

I expect a list of at least say ten then? If they exist, they must
be terrible obscure, along the lines of aumha. In which case
that's no 99%. If fact, you should be able to produce a hundred,
or a thousand groups, if what you say is true. But obviously it is
not.



Gerry
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Twayne wrote:
The Registry is a highly complex/intertwined database or
reference. I doubt if there is anyone outside of Microsoft who
can readily know and understand all the subtle interactions of
keys & values.

It is not actually "highly complex"; in fact, its actually pretty
simple. Any complexity is perceived due to the huge amount of
information available and the necessity to know beforehand where
something relevant may be located. In other words, not for the
inexperienced, and thus the appearance of registry "cleaners".


I've never found a single program that can analyze/recommend and
"Safely" remove these "Bad" keys/values. ( Beyond MRU & Temp
data ).

Then your world must be a tiny one. You need to expand it.


The problem with Registry cleaning is what you remove may not
immediately show up as problems but somewhere in the future as a
Key/Value is referenced you'll see the impact of cleaning.

Any problems will show up as immediately as the affected
application gets used. And if that should happen (it never has to
me), then you just roll back the changes to what they were. 99%
of software that may be detected as a problem by registry
cleaners will TELL you so, and what to do about it, at install
time or by their readme. If they don't, then it's crapware
anyway and was poorly tested before hitting the ether.

As to Adobe issues, a Registry Cleaning is not going to fix a
problem with a install. People who globally recommend that do not
understand how to fix a computer correctly.

That's true. Actually, the best solution is to upgrade to version
9. Unless there is a later version; I didn't check. Ver 8 did
have problems.

"W. eWatson" <notvalid2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:i1o7l.410$%54.408@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I tried using CCleaner for the first time to see if I could
shake the difficulty or correcting the bad update of Adobe
Acrobat 8 (see other recent posts regarding this.)

It was recommended by a post made to the Adobe Forum back in
July. I tried it to clear all registry problems, and it
produced a list of about 30-50 items. None seem related to
Acrobat, but I plunged ahead. It singled out one, despite my
request to fix them all. That didn't fix the problem. My
question is what in the world are all those other registry
problems? For example, Unused File Extension (.cmp,.ka,.wfx,
Office,actor), Access.Extension.8, ActiveX/Com Issue, ...
Perhaps I should clean them out too?

You don't need to as they likely cause no problems, but on the
other hand it would hurt nothing to remove them. Go ahead if you
wish. Twayne


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