Re: Registry Cleanup
- From: John John <audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 21:40:04 -0400
DON'T DO IT! Leave well enough alone! These things cause more harm than good and unless you have a full backup of the registry and considerable knowledge of the registry don't bother with these cleaners. The errors reported are absolutely of little or no consequence, benign as you call them. Removing keys that the cleaner misdiagnosed might cause considerable grief.
By all means keep on exploring and learn about the registry, dig in it, look at it, read about it, familiarize yourself with it, but DON'T TRUST any of these registry fixers unless you fully understand what it is that they want to delete. Few of these things have a 100% batting average and many are just plain destructive. If you want to experiment at least start by backing up the registry. See here: http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
Erunt is a registry backup tool. NTRegopt is a registry compactor, it remove no entries, it just make the it smaller, perfectly safe to use.
John
PT wrote:
I run WinXP Home on a new (several month old) Desktop..
I downloaded a shareware program "Registry Booster" from the Ziff Davis PC Magazine website. I ran it in diagnostic mode. It came up with 150+ "problems". Most all were of the forms:
missing or invalid path
missing CLSID
missing or bad file
missing file association
I have the option to make a backup and then "repair". But I ran the program mostly out of curiosity - not because of any perceived problems.
Are problems of this type generally benign?--
PT
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