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Mon Dec 24 14:43:26 PST 2007
Hello All:
*IF* someone wants to tread on thin ice, and try a registry cleaner,
contrary to advertising, the less aggressive ones would be the ones to go
with. This goes against the advertising claims of aggressive cleaners that
claim to find many more registry entry to delete than competing products,
but in being aggressive and deleting more registry entries, these products,
based on what I've read, are more likely to delete necessary registry
entries, causing troubles later on. The less aggressive cleaners are
probably safer as they would seem to only go after the more likely
unnecessary or duplicate registry entries.
For a review of some registries cleaners, if you are determined to go that
route, there's an online article "Langa Letter: Testing 10 Windows 'Registry
Cleaning' Software Packs" at:
http://www.informationweek.com/LP/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=171203805&pgno=1&queryText= .
Note that Fred Langa is in favor of using a good registry cleaning utility,
advice that goes against that of *many* MS MVP Usenet contributors,
including Mike M. here. Langa writes highly of the original freeware JV
Power Tools, the newer shareware editions of JV Power Tools, and EasyCleaner
by ToniArts. For a paid product, Langa recommends the newer shareware
editions of JV Power Tools. For freeware products, he likes the original JV
power Tools and EasyCleaner. And, unfortunately, he did not include CCleaner
in his review.
But as mentioned in the Win XP Usenet groups, freeware registry cleaners can
possibly wreak havoc on your system at no cost to you, and the
commercial/shareware products will charge you good money for the opportunity
to cause problems on your system.
At the very least, if you are tempted to try one/some of these utilities, be
sure to follow the advice presented here to backup first!
Just some observations from someone who is reading and trying to make sense
of this all.
Cheers,
O.J.
"Heirloom" <nobodyhome@noplacelike.hom> wrote in message
news:O9RN3VnRIHA.1164@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>I have used CCleaner and, for that matter, jv16 PowerTools...the old free
>version, for a long time....never a prob. I always look at what is about
>to be cleaned and put my blessings on it, as well as making a backup.
>Plus, I have a complete disc backup in two other places.
> Guess you could say I don't trust myself or the hardware/software.
> Heirloom, old and backup my backups