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Marianne
The Real Truth MVP said:Both you and Marianne just proved what I said. Orphaned entries are NOT
ignored. Are orphaned run key entries ignored? Almost all the posts in
here about error messages on startup are caused by orphaned run keys
entries. How is newbie going to know what or where a run key is?. It has
been mentioned several times that MS includes a registry cleaner in it's
OneCare yet none of you "registry is snake oil" guru's ever answer why
that is. If MS thinks it is necessary then it is necessary and they did
not have Win98 in mind when they created OneCare..
That one is easy to answer. One Care was an attempt to get in on the
multi-billion dollar AV market. Instead of starting this AV venture from
scratch Microsoft purchased an already existing AV software company (Giant).
Giant had a registry cleaner and One Care just kept it as a marketing
gimmick, they didn't create or develop a cleaner just for One Care. We all
know that One Care was (is) a complete flop! The product was consistently
rated as one of the poorest AV product out there and it never generated the
revenue stream that Microsoft had envisioned, to wit Microsoft has decided
to discontinue it, no registry cleaner could save it.
You are ignorant of the process which owns and calls the registry run keys,
a hint for you: it isn't the applications referred in the keys. You are
grasping at straws, using a registry cleaner to clean out the run keys is
nonsense, it's akin to using a bazooka to kill a fly, the potential for
collateral damage is much greater than the problem being addressed!
Instead of telling users that cleaning the run keys is a good reason to use
a cleaner why don't you instruct users to use the built-in MSConfig utility
to remove these obsolete entries? Because you don't know any better, that
is why. Using the MSConfig utility is simpler and much safer than using
registry cleaners but you keep on insisting that those who know the least
use the most dangerous methods to remove these entries.
Why don't you tell the readers what happens when your cleaners remove
"orphans" from the Winlogon key? Why don't you tell them what happens when
registry cleaners "think" that the Userinit value is "orphaned"? Using a
registry cleaner to cleanup a virus or malware problem is sheer stupidity,
something that only the most ignorant would ever recommend. You
conveniently forget to mention the problems caused by these cleaners, posts
with tales of woes and problems caused by registry cleaners do show up in
these groups but when they show up you and your ilks in the "registry
cleaners are great" stable just put on your blinders and trot right by the
hapless folks who desperately need help after heeding your advice to use
these cleaners.
M