Are the "registry cleaners" safe to use?

Hello

I just want to know if these so-called "registry cleaners" are safe to use.  Since they are all over the Internet, I guess a lot of people use them.  They give promises of better performance of the computer, get rid of all the waste left by the previously uninstalled programs.  But I think that an untrained hand, isn't it will cause more trouble?

The reason I ask is that Yes, I see records left by the previously uninstalled programs and it is quite annoying to find records that have nothing in them.  I just need advice if using these things will be OK.

And I would also be very happy if you could give suggestions on what cleaning products I'd use.  As you have noticed I am not very good with computers, but I also try to avoid delayed damage anything because I know I can't fix it.

Thank you!

-Queen

We sat, December 19 09 19:55:23 GMT, reineshadow wrote:

> Hi, I just want to know if these so-called "registry cleaners".
> are safe to use.

No!

> Since they are all over the Internet, I guess that a lot of
> people use.

Yes, unfortunately.

> They give promises of faster computer performance, getting
> get rid of all the waste left by the previously uninstalled programs.
> But I think for an untrained hand, isn't it
> will cause more trouble?

Yes! Registry cleaning programs are * all * snake oil. Cleaning of the
ve only registry and
do not use any registry cleaner. Despite what many people think, and
What software record cleaning suppliers are trying to convince you,
have unused registry entries is not really make you hurt.

The risk of a serious problem caused by a registry cleaner by mistake
delete an entry you need is much greater than any potential benefit
It can have.

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

> The reason I ask is that Yes, I can see folders left
> of uninstalled programs before and it is quite annoying
> to find records that have nothing in them.

This has nothing to do with registry cleaners, who do nothing
talk at all.
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows desktop experience) since 2003
Ken Blake

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