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re: Registry cleaners Friday, July 17, 2009 at 3:35 pm Posted by taboga (10 messages posted) Same thing happened to me when I installed IE 8. So, I recommend taking it back off. Here's a link how to do it step by step. Good Luck! http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957700 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Registry cleaners Friday, July 17, 2009 at 3:46 pm Posted by Adam Bradley (8786 messages posted) I would recommend skipping registry cleaners, they have a high chance of messing things up if you do not know what they are removing. As a rule registry "clutter" is nothing but harmless old entries that do no harm by existing so just leave them be unless you have reason to do otherwise. On Friday, July 17, 2009 at 2:28 pm, JW wrote: >After installing IE 8 my computer is very slow in comparison to IE 7 ...pages take >anywhere from 3 to 20 seconds to appear after I click...whats going on here? How >do I fix this? Please help...very frustrated. Thanks JW >Is XP Medic a safe and effective registry cleaner? Should I even be considering the >use of such a product to improve my system performance, ie; speed? I'm not a techie, >so please don't bite my head off with your response.All the technical "stuff" tends >to confuse me......JW, senior citizen [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Registry cleaners Friday, July 17, 2009 at 5:13 pm Posted by Ms. Eagle (33640 messages posted) A registry cleaner isn't going to speed up a program that was slow to begin with. That's not their purpose anyway. Either uninstall IE 8 and go back to using IE 7, or... better yet, uninstall it then switch to a safer, more secure browser like Firefox or Opera as your main browser. Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Registry cleaners Friday, July 17, 2009 at 8:30 pm Posted by Ricer46 (23825 messages posted) The advice remains the same as when you asked before... uninstall IE8. And then stop using any version of IE. On Friday, July 17, 2009 at 2:28 pm, JW wrote: >After installing IE 8 my computer is very slow in comparison to IE 7 ...pages take >anywhere from 3 to 20 seconds to appear after I click...whats going on here? How >do I fix this? Please help...very frustrated. Thanks JW >Is XP Medic a safe and effective registry cleaner? Should I even be considering the >use of such a product to improve my system performance, ie; speed? I'm not a techie, >so please don't bite my head off with your response.All the technical "stuff" tends >to confuse me......JW, senior citizen [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Registry cleaners Saturday, July 18, 2009 at 8:14 am Posted by JW (7 messages posted) After installing IE 8 my computer is very slow in comparison to IE 7 ...pages take anywhere from 3 to 20 seconds to appear after I click...whats going on here? How do I fix this? Please help...very frustrated. Thanks JW Thank you Ms. Eagle On Friday, July 17, 2009 at 5:13 pm, Ms. Eagle wrote: > >A registry cleaner isn't going to speed up a program that was slow to begin with. >That's not their purpose anyway. > >Either uninstall IE 8 and go back to using IE 7, or... better yet, uninstall it then >switch to a safer, more secure browser like Firefox or Opera as your main browser. > > > > >color="006699">Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Registry cleaners Saturday, July 18, 2009 at 8:17 am Posted by JW (7 messages posted) After installing IE 8 my computer is very slow in comparison to IE 7 ...pages take anywhere from 3 to 20 seconds to appear after I click...whats going on here? How do I fix this? Please help...very frustrated. Thanks JW Thank you Ricer 46 On Friday, July 17, 2009 at 8:30 pm, Ricer46 wrote: >The advice remains the same as when you asked before... uninstall IE8. And then stop >using any version of IE. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Registry cleaners Saturday, July 18, 2009 at 8:19 am Posted by JW (7 messages posted) After installing IE 8 my computer is very slow in comparison to IE 7 ...pages take anywhere from 3 to 20 seconds to appear after I click...whats going on here? How do I fix this? Please help...very frustrated. Thanks JW thank you taboga On Friday, July 17, 2009 at 3:35 pm, taboga wrote: >Same thing happened to me when I installed IE 8. So, I recommend taking it back >off. Here's a link how to do it step by step. Good Luck! >http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957700 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Registry cleaners Saturday, July 18, 2009 at 8:21 am Posted by JW (7 messages posted) After installing IE 8 my computer is very slow in comparison to IE 7 ...pages take anywhere from 3 to 20 seconds to appear after I click...whats going on here? How do I fix this? Please help...very frustrated. Thanks JW thank you Adam On Friday, July 17, 2009 at 3:46 pm, Adam Bradley wrote: >I would recommend skipping registry cleaners, they have a high chance of messing >things up if you do not know what they are removing. As a rule registry "clutter" >is nothing but harmless old entries that do no harm by existing so just leave them >be unless you have reason to do otherwise. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Registry cleaners Saturday, July 18, 2009 at 12:01 pm Posted by Ms. Eagle (33640 messages posted) JW, I've explained in detail what I think you should do. I thought I was quite clear about it. Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Registry cleaners Saturday, July 18, 2009 at 1:23 pm Posted by Adam Bradley (8786 messages posted) looks like JW got the first post as a post header, seen it happen a few times. On Saturday, July 18, 2009 at 12:01 pm, Ms. Eagle wrote: > >JW, I've explained in detail what I think you should do. I thought I was quite clear >about it. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Registry cleaners Saturday, July 18, 2009 at 1:40 pm Posted by Ms. Eagle (33640 messages posted) It looks that way, but then what's the reason for not adding anything and repeating it several times? Talk about confusing! Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Registry cleaners Sunday, July 19, 2009 at 12:15 am Posted by NigelHH (1324 messages posted) He was thanking each respondent [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Registry cleaners Sunday, July 19, 2009 at 3:39 pm Posted by pauly007usa (178 messages posted) After trying many, many cleaners, Steve from this foum seems to have turned me on to thr best and it's free ! Try it, cCleaner. http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/ On Friday, July 17, 2009 at 2:28 pm, JW wrote: >After installing IE 8 my computer is very slow in comparison to IE 7 ...pages take >anywhere from 3 to 20 seconds to appear after I click...whats going on here? How >do I fix this? Please help...very frustrated. Thanks JW >Is XP Medic a safe and effective registry cleaner? Should I even be considering the >use of such a product to improve my system performance, ie; speed? I'm not a techie, >so please don't bite my head off with your response.All the technical "stuff" tends >to confuse me......JW, senior citizen [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Registry cleaners - don't use 'em ! Sunday, July 19, 2009 at 3:57 pm Posted by MartinM (7550 messages posted) CCleaner is great for unwanted rubbish from your system, but leave its Registry Cleaner alone. Its OK as Registry Cleaners go, but that's not the point . . . there's NO NEED to clean the XP Registry and you may do extreme harm. I regularly have to fix PCs with Registries mangled by "cleaning" and have yet to find one where "cleaning" has fixed anything worthwhile. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Registry cleaners - don't use 'em ! Sunday, July 19, 2009 at 4:20 pm Posted by pauly007usa (178 messages posted) Hello Martin, I know you know what your talking about from other advise you have given me. However, I have been using Tune up utilities Reg cleaner 2007 for two years with no problems and it seems to keep my Reg in good shape, with no adverse affects as of yet. It automatically makes a restore point before making it's changes. However, thanks for the info. cCleaner, appears to do much more. On Sunday, July 19, 2009 at 3:57 pm, MartinM wrote: > >CCleaner is great for unwanted rubbish from your system, but leave its Registry Cleaner >alone. Its OK as Registry Cleaners go, but that's not the point . . . there's NO >NEED to clean the XP Registry and you may do extreme harm. > >I regularly have to fix PCs with Registries mangled by "cleaning" and have yet to >find one where "cleaning" has fixed anything worthwhile. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Registry cleaners - don't use 'em ! Sunday, July 19, 2009 at 5:10 pm Posted by Adam Bradley (8786 messages posted) 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. On Sunday, July 19, 2009 at 4:20 pm, pauly007usa wrote: >Hello Martin, I know you know what your talking about from other advise you have >given me. However, I have been using Tune up utilities Reg cleaner 2007 for two >years with no problems and it seems to keep my Reg in good shape, with no adverse >affects as of yet. It automatically makes a restore point before making it's changes. > However, thanks for the info. cCleaner, appears to do much more. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Registry cleaners - don't use 'em ! Sunday, July 19, 2009 at 10:34 pm 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. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Registry cleaners.. oh please Monday, July 20, 2009 at 12:56 am Posted by Ms. Eagle (33640 messages posted) I'm so tired of hearing all these scare tactics about registry cleaners. I've used various registry cleaners for years, and it's never caused me a problem. Those that do, are probably scams to begin with. Performance isn't the point, but all that useless garbage collecting in the registry can cause corruption over a period of time. Plus, the registry gets bloated with all that useless junk, 'specially if you install/uninstall a lot of programs. It's a matter of personal preference, like anything else. Personally, I like to keep my system as lean and clean as possible. Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Registry cleaners . . no thank you Monday, July 20, 2009 at 3:19 am Posted by MartinM (7550 messages posted) Fair comment, but you are an expert and cautious user. The generic class "registry cleaners" is a nightmare - as you say there are many scams out there. My personal opinion is slightly different from yours - let's leave it at that ? I'd post an appropriate smiley if only I could find one :-)) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Registry cleaners . . no thank you Monday, July 20, 2009 at 12:05 pm Posted by Ms. Eagle (33640 messages posted) I've no intention of starting an argument with you or anyone else here, Martin. :) I don't know if there are generic registry cleaners, but yeah.. I advice inexperienced users, novices, not to use them too. You should have an understanding of the registry, and what the entries are for, etc. Personal opinions I can understand, but it sounds like more than a personal opinion. Trying to scare others into NOT using them, even tho they've already been using them, because that's 'their' choice is, well.. along the same line as scaring users into not installing any updates, because you don't install them... so you don't want anyone else to. Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Registry cleaners . . no thank you Monday, July 20, 2009 at 12:26 pm Posted by MartinM (7550 messages posted) No, its just that I regularly see/deal with PCs mangled by dodgy Registry "cleaners". I do occasionally use one myself for a specific purpose. Enough on this maybe ? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Registry cleaners . . no thank you Monday, July 20, 2009 at 1:22 pm Posted by Ms. Eagle (33640 messages posted) Enough on this... Certainly, I just wanted to have my say on the subject, just like you had yours. Have a good day, Martin Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum