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At the risk of being accused of continuing this discussion I offer the
following:
On 1-11-2010 at 5:39PM Twayne stated 'there are sound technical reasons to
run
a registry cleaner'. When asked to provide just one, he refuses just as he
ignores
all the posters who have damaged their system by running a registry cleaner.
I believe these discussions are important so as to prevent the likes of
Twayne
from misleading new users of PCs..
following:
On 1-11-2010 at 5:39PM Twayne stated 'there are sound technical reasons to
run
a registry cleaner'. When asked to provide just one, he refuses just as he
ignores
all the posters who have damaged their system by running a registry cleaner.
I believe these discussions are important so as to prevent the likes of
Twayne
from misleading new users of PCs..
Shenan Stanley said:<snipped>
I have never once, in at least 5 years, seen you respond to
someone who posted the damage done to
his/her machine by a registry cleaner. You conveniently ignore
them. Then, you severely criticize some who
says registry cleaners are 'snakeoil'. Why are you so two faced? Do
you work for the 'snakeoil' developers?<snipped>Well, you'd better go look again. Or put your glasses on. I don't
offer answers to someone if I don't know the answer. But I DO
address your misinformation. K? And, I'm clear about what I'm
doing. You've missed a lot of posts in 5 years.
You never offered answers to someone who damaged their
system by a registry cleaner because you don't know the
answer? Then why do you push them? And you say "I'm
clear about what I'm doing"
Are you mentally handicapped?<snipped>Prove I never offered answers.
Seriously? That's the responses and what this has come to?
You want proof you never did something instead of providing proof you did
something at least a single time which completely resolves that argument?
Go ahead - you can answer that you shouldn't have to prove anything and
stomp your feet and hold your breath and turn blue - because that is what
this conversation has [de]evolved to - or you could prove yourself and
give one link, one solitary web link to one time where you, and I will
quote "unknown" here, "offered answers to someone who damaged their system
by a registry cleaner".
In the whole 'registry cleaner' argument - I could care less in the end.
If someone has the skills to use something and know which things are
useful as tools vs. those that are not - more power to them. If someone
does not and they decide to dive headfirst into something they don't
understand and end up drowning - more power to them. Doesn't matter if it
is registry cleaners, registry editors, antimalware applications,
antivirus applications, duplicate file finders, random advice from people
they do not know or whatever - if someone is willing to do it - I am not
going to stand in their way. I will give them my experience and I will
warn them that if they are not truly prepared - things can and likely will
go wrong (get worse.)
However - stop right there - I do not care - it's their decision. I will
not push them into anything overly complicated or that should not be done
without precise instructions followed to the letter or things could go
wrong. I am careful about what I ask people to do to their system -
keeping it simple and understanding that sometimes - it is better to teach
someone how to backup and go to an expert than how to start going through
something they may never understand and might slip up on - especially
given it is seldom an 'end-of-the-world/last-hope-of-success' scenario.
In any case - I digressed - back to the only reason I responded. This is
why these posts get so long and how come it usually ends up just a couple
of people left in them (usually the same people over and over) - it breaks
down to playground (under the age of 8) antics and taunts. "I know you
are, but what am I?" and instead of one or the other producing the
obvious, easy and simple solution that could end one thread of the
conversation - it continues to break down with, "I'm rubber and you're
glue..."
Twayne, if you want to end that part of the discussion - once and for
all - give the single link to answer the question. One Google Groups link
or Microsoft Social link or whatever. That's all it takes to counter a
'never' - just one. Take the high road. You may think, might even say
(maybe not now that I mention it), I don't have to prove anything (it's a
matter of principle, whatever...) and you may be right - but it takes only
one to oust a 'never' argument. Failure to produce that one is not the
best response unless you stop responding ever again and just ignore the
other (even then - it doesn't produce the true results you might desire.)
*shrug*
In the end - I still do not care. It's a newsgroup argument over
something petty and that didn't matter 20 years ago and might not matter
20 years from now. It's just something to do to fill the gap of time
between now and then. ;-P