Re: anybody know of . . .

LOL !! ...brillliant !

....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


"Bruce Chambers" <bchambers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23I1Gq17KHHA.3560@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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