registry Cleaners

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I was wondering if there was any utilities out thre that might be
recommended for cleaning out the registry. I've know about Registry
Mechanic but are there better ones? Most of the ones I see are
garbage and I was hoping to find a reputable one.

Sort of that, would Virtulization of the applications (i.e. MS
Application Virtualization) prevent application from using the real
registry and jujst use it's own VIRTUAL registry?

What direction is MS taking in the future on this issue as it has been
a plague since invented

Thanks!
 
I was wondering if there was any utilities out thre that might be
recommended for cleaning out the registry. I've know about Registry
Mechanic but are there better ones? Most of the ones I see are
garbage and I was hoping to find a reputable one.
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They are *all* garbage and they all be avoided. "Cleaning out the
registry" is neither necessary nor desirable.

Here's my standard post on this subject:

Registry cleaning programs are *all* snake oil. Cleaning of the
registry isn't needed and is dangerous. Leave the registry alone and
don't use any registry cleaner. Despite what many people think, and
what vendors of registry cleaning software try to convince you of,
having unused registry entries doesn't really hurt you.

The risk of a serious problem caused by a registry cleaner erroneously
removing an entry you need is far greater than any potential benefit
it may have.

Read http://www.edbott.com/weblog/archives/000643.html
 
See inline.

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-Karl said:
I was wondering if there was any utilities out thre that might be
recommended for cleaning out the registry. I've know about Registry
Mechanic but are there better ones? Most of the ones I see are
garbage and I was hoping to find a reputable one.
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In the hands of someone knowledgable on the registry, any reputable cleaner
is good, if you can't determine whether or not it's safe to remove what a
cleaner finds, you shouldn't be using a registry cleaner.
Sort of that, would Virtulization of the applications (i.e. MS
Application Virtualization) prevent application from using the real
registry and jujst use it's own VIRTUAL registry?
Click to expand...

Doesn't really matter, as registry cleaning isn't required anyway.
What direction is MS taking in the future on this issue as it has been
a plague since invented
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Says who? What do you base this statement on?
 
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