John John said:
DON'T DO IT! Leave well enough alone!
Spoken like a truely closed mind with no real world experience in
reliable sysems and apps.
These things cause more harm
than good and unless you have a full backup of the registry and
A full backup of the Registry isn't much use in XP; you need to
use the System State backed up.
considerable knowledge of the registry don't bother with these
cleaners.
These "cleaners" are specifically FOR people without the time or
ability to gain considerable knowledge of the registry. Your
sour grapes are not everyone's sour grapes. If you know the
registry this well, then you also have the ability to know that a
good registry cleaner is a goldmine to have.
The errors reported are absolutely of little or no
consequence, benign as you call them.
For the moment, that's true in this case.
Removing keys that the cleaner misdiagnosed might
cause considerable grief.
Most decent cleaners put the problems they find into reasonably
understandable lay language that's easy enough to verify on one's
own without having to know the internals of the registry. If it
says something doesn't exist, it's easy enough to check that out.
If it says a shortcut is extraneous, that's easy enough to check
out, too. Most of the better ones will even give you a jump to
the Registry location so you can see it for yourself. They also
let you automatically fix, manually fix, ignore, or do nothing.
It -can- get confusing, as in the case of mscoree.dll, but ...
that's OK too because one is learning waht the various pieces are
used for.
If the software knows the registry as you seem to claim you
know it, and he'd better to have a good app, then it's pretty
simple task to verify the strings and keys. I daresay their
knowledge of the registry will be far above yours.
By all means keep on exploring and learn about the registry,
dig in it, look at it, read about it, familiarize yourself with
it,
That part's good advice if anyone has the wherewithal to do so.
but DON'T TRUST
any of these registry fixers unless you fully understand what
it is that they want to delete.
and that part's just meaningless. It's just not that hard to
understand what a good registry cleaner is going to do if one has
any reading comprehension at all and has taken the time to read.
Few of these things have a 100% batting average
and many are just plain destructive.
They are a LOT less destructive than the neophyte who jumps into
his registry and breaks the system because he knows enough to be
dangerous but doesn't realize that. I know, then he can "simply"
import his whole registry, right? Wrong! Try it and you'll see
why it's a bad thing pretty quickly.
If you want to experiment at least
start by backing up the registry. See here:
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
Erunt is a registry backup tool.
Erunt is actually a respectable tool. I don't use it because I
can do everything it can do and more with ntbackup, but ... it
does function, or it used to, fine.
NTRegopt is a registry compactor, it
remove no entries, it just make the it smaller, perfectly safe
to use.
Umm, NO, it does NOT make the Registry smaller!
If you'll read your own reference you'll see that it, and
others like it in fact, only do a form of "defrag" on the
registry to streamline it a little. And, it has some stability
problems on a machine that may have otherwise undetected
problems. One will almost never achieve ANY perceptible
improvements in anything from running a registry optimizer.
Instead of being so closed minded about these things you should
turn your interests to figuring out the reality of these things
and learn what the actual cases are. People with opinions like
yours are a wart on the ass of computing.
I'm not a closed mind, and will always listen to opposing
sensible viewpoints, especially when backed up with verifiable
facts, but a closed mind such as yours cannot tell me anything I
would consider worth following up on unless it contained
verifiable evidence. You're like the proverbial clock that tells
the exact time twice a day for a split second.
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