[Graham Mayor]

However it might stop your PC coughing out posts in triplicate?

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


wrote:
I understand that even a massively inflated registry has no
significant effect on anything except the length of time required to
search the registry. Yet despite this knowledge, it is hard to eschew
registry cleaning. I don't know why exactly. There's something like a
pre-wire intution that if your remove 1,000 useless registry entries,
it has to imply there was a problem.

I myself don't run any serious risks, because I never proceed without
a full disk image. Worst case scenario, I lose 20 minutes while I
restore the disk. Sometimes problems arise with applications long
afterwards, but here the worse case is a reinstallation of the
application.

Still, why waste the time. Registry cleaning may qualify as an
addiction.

Stephen R. Diamond

Graham Mayor wrote:
In the hands of people who don't know what they are doing, registry
cleaners do more harm than good. It's all very well having a smaller
registry, which might save a few seconds when you open Windows, but
if the required entries are scrubbed along the way, then the
applications may not work properly and in a worst case Windows will
not start.

Some of these applications also remove 'redundant' dlls! Disaster in
the hands of the unwary

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



wrote:
If some people want or need such thorough cleaning that their
settings have to be sacrificed in the process, I'm glad CCleaner
provides this capability for them. But it isn't a behavior the user
has any reason to expect. There must be a mechanism to bring the
behavior to the user's attention before the effect is felt. One
obvious way would be to turn Office cleaning OFF by default and
pop-up a warning when the user checks Office. At this point, the
CCleaner developer's irresponsible marketing of the product has
destroyed the confidence in a product I need to allow it access to
my registry, and I have deleted CCleaner.