Ah, Bruce, the most closed minded, ignorant and lying narcissist
spreading their tripe amongst the others here. In the spirit of
correcting misinformation:
Bruce Chambers said:
There are lots of them. But I won't do you the disservice of pointing
them out.
Why would you even think you'd ever need to clean your registry?
What specific *problems* are you actually experiencing (not some
program's bogus listing of imaginary problems) that you think can be
fixed by using a registry "cleaner?"
Quite a put down. And wrong, of course.
If you do have a problem that is rooted in the registry, it would
be far better to simply edit (after backing up, of course) only the
specific key(s) and/or value(s) that are causing the problem. After
all, why use a chainsaw when a scalpel will do the job? Additionally,
the manually changing of one or two registry entries is far less
likely to have the dire consequences of allowing an automated product
to make multiple changes simultaneously. The only thing needed to
safely clean your registry is knowledge and Regedit.exe.
Right. And what's the learning curve to learn the registry? What is
the purpose of ANY program? Manually editing the registry is the
fastest way there is for the uninitiated to clobber their machines. It
only takes one wrong move in the right place. Perhaps if you understood
anything about the registry you could actually help such a person as
the OP here rather than put him down.
The registry contains all of the operating system's "knowledge" of
the computer's hardware devices, installed software, the location of
the device drivers, and the computer's configuration.
Actually, that's not true; it does not contain "all" of the OS's info.
There are bits and pieces of it saved in many other places and you know
that but figure you can ignore it because you assume the OP knows less
than you do. So you spout your misinformation and jaded opinions for
all to observe your ignorance.
A misstep in
the registry can have severe consequences. One should not even
turning loose a poorly understood automated "cleaner," unless he is
fully confident that he knows *exactly* what is going to happen as a
result of each and every change.
By that logic, you must not use any program or application that makes
any changes to the registry. THAT is a good trick! It's fear-mongering
and nothing more on your part.
Having repeatedly seen the results of inexperienced people using
automated registry "cleaners," I can only advise all but the most
experienced computer technicians (and/or hobbyists) to avoid them all.
But that comes from your ignorance on the subject.
Experience has shown me that such tools simply are not safe in the
Has shown YOU? So, anything that has happened to YOU is something that
happens to ALL and thus YOUR opinions must be applied to ALL? You show
your ignorance so clearly when you try.
hands of the inexperienced user. If you lack the knowledge and
experience to maintain your registry by yourself, then you also lack
the knowledge and experience to safely configure and use any
automated registry cleaner, no matter how safe they claim to be.
Prove it. Show me a damage done by every, or just most, registry
cleaner in existance, and be certain to include the reliable, reputable
ones along with the feces-coders you make up.
You can't prove it. You can't even show more than a few perfunctory
references to it. If you find it from a reliable source, I'll read it.
But you can't do that.
More importantly, no one has ever demonstrated that the use of an
automated registry "cleaner," particularly by an untrained,
inexperienced computer user, does any real good, whatsoever. There's
Nor have YOU demonstrated the opposite. While to ME, I've seen, read
and experienced it over and over, over the years, you have no such
experience to fall back on. All you have is hear-say from unproven,
unverifiable resources.
certainly been no empirical evidence offered to demonstrate that the
use of such products to "clean" WinXP's registry improves a computer's
performance or stability. Given the potential for harm, it's just not
worth the risk.
Yes, there has. I provided it to you. You ignored it and were a black
hole with any response to it. Over the years I've done so three times,
in fact. I even offered to participate in a test with you and develop
records concerning the results of those evaluations but once again you
were a black hole, too cowardly to participate. Another clear
demonstration of your ignorance on the subject.
Granted, most registry "cleaners" won't cause problems each and
every time they're used, but the potential for harm is always there.
The potential harm is "always there" with ANY software code you run.
The fact is, good registry cleaners, or which there are quite a few now,
do less harm than non-registry cleaners. They are better designed. They
are stable. They are reliable. You on the other hand are a liar when
you claim much of this misinformation to be true.
And, since no registry "cleaner" has ever been demonstrated to do any
good (think of them like treating the flu with chicken soup - there's
no real medicinal value, but it sometimes provides a warming placebo
effect), I always tell people that the risks far out-weigh the
non-existent benefits.
More ignorance. See previous comments; still lying and ignorant.
I will concede that a good registry *scanning* tool, in the hands
of an experienced and knowledgeable technician or hobbyist can be a
useful time-saving diagnostic tool, as long as it's not allowed to
make any changes automatically.
Oh: That's what's required to answer YES to, "link to x.rtf not found;
repair?" when you know you just deleted it? Or "link to x.com broken:
found on drive D: Repair?" THAT requires your specialist? Your are a
king of the ignorant, I swear.
But I really don't think that there
are any registry "cleaners" that are truly safe for the general
public to use.
Huh! NOW you just "think" it! What about all that prose and crap you
just went through making what you hope are factual statements as though
they were true, not that you "think"!
Experience has proven just the opposite: such tools
Well, YOUR expeience is apprently a bunch of tripe and hogwash. Again,
"YOUR" must apply to ALL, right? Riiiigghht!!
simply are not safe in the hands of the inexperienced user.
A blatant, inconsistantly stated lie.
A little further reading on the subject:
Why I don't use registry cleaners
http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=643
AumHa Forums . View topic - AUMHA Discussion: Should I Use a Registry
Cleaner?
http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=28099
lol! Yeah, right, write or assist with an article/post whatever and
then refer to it as "proof"! Ya gotta love it! Only a moron ...
Thanks again for the opportunity to expose you for the misinformationist
you are. It's been fun.
Twayne`
