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Posted by RJK on December 30, 2006, 7:10 pm
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...though having said that, and having occasionally, in the past, spent more
than the odd hour wading through my registry doing a "manual" cleanup, that
inevitibly turns into several hours because I've have to find lots of
answers before proceeding. ...I recently tried "Wincleaner from
www.WinCleaner.com - one click cleanup" that came free on a magazine dvd.
...I didn't fancy the "one-button" part ! ...but, the WinReg Cleaner button
proposed 384 deletions from my registry - none of which, (after careful
scrutiny), I could argue with !!
regards, Richard
> Sharon Franks wrote:
>> Registry cleaners need to be run more than once to be effective.
>
>
> Not necessarily. Many are quite effective at rendering the computer
> unusable on the first attempt.
>
>
>> Running
>> once will only create more invalid keys and subkeys because the first
>> pass,
>> when it deletes a subkey will cause the main key to point to the missing
>> key.There for you need to run it until it comes up clean, backing it up
>> first of course. I use crap cleaner it allows you to fix all
>> http://www.ccleaner.com
>>
>
>
> CCleaner seems relatively benign, as long as you step through each
> detected "issue" one at a time, to determine if it really is an "issue" or
> not, and then decide whether or not to let the application "fix" it. In my
> experience, most of the reported "issues" won't be issues, at all. I
> tried the latest version on a brand-new OS installation with no additional
> applications installed, and certainly none installed and then uninstalled,
> and CCleaner still managed to "find" over a hundred allegedly orphaned
> registry entries and dozens of purportedly "suspicious" files.
> (CCleaner's main strength lies in its usefulness for cleaning up unused
> temporary files from the hard drive; as a registry "cleaner," it's not
> better than any other snake oil remedy.)
>
>
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