re: Registry cleaners - don't use 'em !
Sunday, July 19, 2009 at 10:34 pm
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Posted by pauly007usa
(178 messages posted)
OK, Thanks for the info. I just figured, If I do nothing the Reg would just keep
growing and growing with invalid entries and my machine would slow down and mal-function.
Don't quite know what to do now. Thanks for the input. Paul
On Sunday, July 19, 2009 at 5:10 pm, Adam Bradley wrote:
>the point is registry cleaners do no good 99.9% of the time, an unused entry in
your
>registry is just that, unused. It does no harm at all by simply existing and the
>performance boost that supposedly comes from cleaning is debatable at best. Most
>errors detected are in fact harmless and might actually be there for a reason that
>the cleaner does not detect. So you are taking an action that has no real benefit
>and carries great risk, it is like playing Russian roulette to keep your gun clean.
>Sure you might have had no trouble so far but you take great risk and get no reward
>out of it.
>the .1% of the time a registry error is a problem handling it directly is better
>than running a cleaner so you know what you are fixing and how to set it back if
>you need to.
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