Leonard said:
"Is there anything more substantial on this subject?"
The only way to truly appreciate how useless - and possibly dangerous
- is a so-called registry cleaner is to learn more about how your
computer works, and the Windows registry in particular. Otherwise,
you're pitting one person's word against another.
I agree! It sheds the light right where it needs to be! But it won't
achieve your expectations for the true researcher.
The more you learn, the more you'll understand, and you'll see why
these products are marketed to people with little computer knowledge.
These are the software equivalent of the diet and multi-vitamin pills
you hear advertised on late night infomercials. As in the case of the
Windows registry, few people understand what these pills really do in
the body, so they can be swayed by arguments that appeal more to
human emotion than to the facts.
You mean like, XP, Vista, win8, win7, Office, and all the rest of them,
right? Therer are more problems with those than even any bogus registry
cleaner ever dreamed of. MS is the only company I know of that releases
apha-ware and calls it Production. Same for anti-virus, so there's no
use in having it by that logic. What do YOU think vendors should do;
advertise nothing but problems? That's the lamest bull crap I've heard
in quite awhile.
Here's one fact: No responsible journal or test lab has published
before and after tests that prove the claims a registry cleaner
Oh, yes they have!
makes, and little wonder: They can't be proven.
That depends on the mind and how the holder of that mind wants to define
"proven".
However, these
newsgroups are routinely visited by people who've messed up their
computers with a so-called registry cleaner.
Or think that anyway. GIGO applies to any such situation. There are
many more people who visit these groups who use them, have no problems
and no wish to be talked down to and called names by the
misinformationists et al who always climb out of the woodwork. That
attitude is what actually initiated my campaign over misinformation.
IF one is human, that is.
Or think, or claim, they have.
