Registry cleaners - fraud or good thing?

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• The risks of the use of registry cleaners

  Let me start by saying from the beginning using registry cleaners is a bad idea, and it is not recommended for the average user.

  Let's get into the details as to why you don't want to use a registry cleaner. Your computer registry is the brain. It is where your computer keeps its database of configuration settings and options.  When you have learned to walk your brain stored this information and kept in a sealed off the coast of the section of your brain, it's your computer. When your computer has learned how to run a particular program, it updates this information within the registry.

  Here's what looks like your registry database.

  

  Most of the time, it doesn't matter what are these different categories, we're not going to mess with them. This is just a general if you see this screen, so you know what you're watching.

  So what is a registry cleaner and why is it sometimes advisable to launch. A registry cleaner announces that it will enter into your registry and delete all files that are no longer needed. By removing these rogue registry files, your computer will be theoretically run faster and better.

  What are rogue registry files? When you uninstall a program, it should remove all traces of itself from your computer, including the registry files. Not all programs do correctly or even can do it properly. So when the program is uninstalled its existence can still live in your registry. To bring the analogy to your brain, if you have a traumatic event (in this case the traumatic event on your computer by uninstalling the program) your brain will help you forget, it happened, but it's still there. Even if you uninstall this program there are traces of it that still exist.

  Then uninstall a program is not really uninstall the program completely and there are programs that will remove these files why would I not do? It's simple, really, most registry programs will cause more problems than they solve. Registry cleaners are trying to identify programs and registry files is no longer, your computer needs and remove them which are very well if it is a 100% guarantee that it delete only what is really necessary should be deleted.

  The problem is that they do not guarantee that and some may eventually give false positives and accidentally delete registry files needed for your computer to act and function properly.

  You know the risks and can always wants to go with a registry program, there are some things you can do to protect yourself at least.

  1. Make sure that the program you are purchase or acquisition is from a reputable company
  2. Ensure that you have the latest version of the software for your operating system and the program is designed to work on your operating system
  3. Make sure that it backs up your registry database before you start to go through the deletion of all.

  Ensuring that you take at least measures to protect you when you run a registry cleaner that you find that you get good results. Most of the time but if you don't know then let it be. There are many other solutions available that can help you keep your computer running efficiently, personally, I would recommend this read computer maintenance and its importance, but I may be biased.

  If you have any questions or comments, I am open to hear them.

  1. If you have already run a registry cleaner and have problems, my recommendation is to do a system restore to a date before the execution of the program

  2. I won't give any recommendations on programs to use

• 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

• Are legitimate or fake registry cleaners?

  Hey guys

  I have recently decided to give a try to affiliate marketing and selected registry cleaners as one of my niche products to promote on my site RegWhiz. However after some research, it became obvious that there is a possibility that these applications can not do what they say they can and this may affect my site user reviews.

  So right now I'm stuck between the strings and trying to check if these applications are technically capable of resolving registry errors, or whether they are completely fraudulent in their actions by promising to get the sales knowing that these applications will cause more problems? I mean for this kind of looks like users do not understand how use these applications and thus to have wrong opinions when errors occur due to their lack of understanding and not a lack of capacity of the applications.

  So my question is who is never able to meet.

  Registry cleaners are really able to fix, clean and optimize the Windows registry in terms of capacity?

  Concerning

  HG

  "WhizKid26" wrote in message News: 96255060-a0e5-4946-bd33-0a1855a2b561...

  "heyGotcha" wrote in message News: 51125026-c533-4771-bcf7-035ebf1d2bee...

  Hey guys

  I have recently decided to give a try to affiliate marketing and selected registry cleaners as one of my niche products to promote on my site RegWhiz. However after some research, it became obvious that there is a possibility that these applications can not do what they say they can and this may affect my site user reviews.

  So right now I'm stuck between the strings and trying to check if these applications are technically capable of resolving registry errors, or whether they are completely fraudulent in their actions by promising to get the sales knowing that these applications will cause more problems? I mean for this kind of looks like users do not understand how use these applications and thus to have wrong opinions when errors occur due to their lack of understanding and not a lack of capacity of the applications.

  So my question is who is never able to meet.

  Registry cleaners are really able to fix, clean and optimize the Windows registry in terms of capacity?

  Concerning

  HG

  My opinion of the cleaners registry (and optimizers) is

  (1) If you need to use them, then you have insufficient knowledge to use them safely.

  (2) If you have enough knowledge to use safely, you need not use them.

   

  Yes, in * some * conditions, they can do a great job - but ONLY when the machine is absolutely stable and the user checks each change before allowing it.

  too many times, I saw people with installs Office-type (where some elements are install overuse first) which is irretrievably broken by using a registry clean, because dependent registry entries are removed by the cleaner. The only solution is therefore a complete uninstall/reinstall the product, and maybe even that does not work properly.

  The raw numbers of '' correction '' produced by these tools look impressive - but are inconsequential in the scheme of things, actually, and make almost no difference to the functioning or the speed of the PC.

  There is no substitute for the knowledge - and a static program cannot know everything on a non-static PC installation.

   

  
  --

  Noel Paton | Nil Carborundum Illegitemi | CrashFixPC | The lazy three fingers

  I love your opinion about registry cleaners. After your comments am I right to say that you agree that there is some good cleaners can do a decent job? If yes which cleaning products that you would recommend?

  Please read the two-liner again - it is the declaration of the device here.
  In my humble OPINION, it is not a good registry cleaner - and almost certainly never can be, as he would have to know each possible set of registry keys for every piece of software that can be installed on the computer in question. Some are not trying to do anything of the sort - they just look "dead links" and try and remove them (perhaps recursively). These are the most dangerous kind.
  There are others who make exceptions for well known application registry entries - but the lower the standard deviation takes the user and the 'clean' into unfamiliar territory with potentially disastrous potential.
  If I'm a cleaning system to the top, the last thing I look at is the registry - and I can use a cleanser to help record to do manual labor, but I NEVER allow him to remove anything until I checked or manually researched.
  I NEVER recommend registry cleaners 'Joe Public' - and if I happen to find one on the client machine I have delete or disable immediately and inform the customer why.
  I repeat...
  (1) If you need to use them, then you have insufficient knowledge to use them safely.

  (2) If you have enough knowledge to use safely, you need not use them.

   
  
  --

  Noel Paton | Nil Carborundum Illegitemi | CrashFixPC | The lazy three fingers

• Registry cleaners on Windows 9 x computers

  Before you fall back, I have a rule! The rule is first read my full question and not talk about new windows (Windows XP and later versions). Improve speed on Windows 9 x computers registry cleaners? They challenge or perhaps prevent accidents? Cause I heard that a very large registry could slow down the computer's startup time and even crash the computer. I know that this problem has been fixed in NT-OS (including Windows XP and Vista), due to a disc structure different from the registry, improved memory management and indexing. But I speak only Windows 9 x computers. So do registry cleaners work?

  Not really.  The registry is just a database.  Have a lot of data does not slow, because a database of answers to questions.  Google is the database of massive massive massvie, and it is not slow.  And it should return billions of results.

  The registry is a database which only has to return one specific answer for a query. You will be asked "what is the value of x key" and the register "it's abc" response (s).  That's all.  Only a single result.  And if no one ever asks for it, it won't slow you down.

  Registry cleaners are good if they remove a broken key that is a problem.  But broken key that requires no program may not be a problem, and cleaners are generally more trouble than fix, if even this is not recommended.

• should I use a registry cleaner or that I hear about registry cleaners do not to use a registry cleaner.

  I heard that registry cleaners are not the best thing to use.  If they are safe to use and what is the best cleaner to use approved microsoft registry

  It only is Microsoft registry cleaners not approved.

• Are registry cleaners and defrag (s) necessary?

  I was wondering for about a year now...

  On Monday, October 8, 2012 03:14:17 + 0000, Ethan Nguyen wrote:

  I was wondering for about a year now...

  You've already gotten two responses saying what I say, but
  I'll tell you a third time to reinforce the point:

  A registry cleaner is not is not only necessary, but it is very dangerous and
  must not be executed.

  Registry cleaning programs are all snake oil. Cleaning of the
  registration is not necessary and is dangerous. Let alone register 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
  and http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=28099
  and also
  http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/Archive/2005/10/02/registry-junk-a-Windows-fact-of-life.aspx

  Let me stress that neither me nor anyone else who warns the
  use of registry cleaners never said that they always cause
  problems. If they have always caused problems, they would disappear from
  the market almost immediately. Many people have used a registry
  cleaner and never had a problem with it.

  The problem with a registry cleaner is that it carries with it
  the risk of a significant problem. And since there is no
  benefits of using a registry cleaner, running that risk is a very bad
  good deal.
  Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP

• Registry cleaners are safe or not?

  Hello... I just want to know it's available on the internet registry cleaners are safe to use or not?  If use any registry cleaner it would harm my system or windows? Please tell me should I use any registry cleaner or not?

  [Edit Moderator: left the CPC for Virus and Malware forum] > moved to Windows other/unknown

  Please read:

  Support lifecycle for the use of the registry cleaning utilities
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/2563254 registry cleaners are needed?
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/are-registry-cleaners-necessary#1TC=Windows-7

  Why you should not use the optimization tools and registry cleaners

  http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/407147/answers-to-common-security-questions-best-practices/?p=2853053

• Question about backup registry cleaners...

  Hello

  Is it possible that I scan with a registry cleaner and it creates a problem in my pc but then

  the problem of surfaces 4 months later (for example when I install a new PC game)? At this point, I could

  have used the registry cleaner 16 times and have backups 16 - you try to restore the last registry

  backup and the problem won't get fixed, you must try each backup 16 - and if problem surfaces

  a year later, they could be 36 backups...

  Hope you see what I mean, honestly is it useful to use these registry cleaners?

  What is the answer of specialists?

  Thank you

  Karl

  KarlSu

  Lol the benefits outweigh the risks. If you have installed registry cleaner program, remove it and then run the SFC.exe tool.

  How to run the command "SFC/scannow" at the start or in Windows 8 and 8.1

  http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/3047-sfc-scannow-command-run-Windows-8-a.html

• Useful registry cleaners or are so bad in Vista?

  The idea of having something stuck in the useless registry makes me uncomfortable. I think I need TO unload... like 'spring cleaning' annual rite therefore, examination of the occasional reg cleaner as part of the interview... with more regularly done sfc/scannow, diskcheck to find errors, disk and reg defrags and deleting temporary files daily.

  The web is full of logs from many forums, written by geeks very decorated, strongly against reg cleaner use, including and especially our own MSN Live One Care Scanner (is it really that bad?).

  OK..., what is your vision on the registry cleaners?

  * original title - registry cleaner/s...what's the deal? *

  never use them! Windows does not load the whole registry longer (starting with XP), so the registry can be 100 MB or 1 GB, it's okay, the PC will have the same speed.

  André "a programmer is just a tool that converts the caffeine in code" Deputy CLIP - http://www.winvistaside.de/

• Recommended registry cleaners.

  I would like to know if Microsoft recommends to use Registry cleaners and if so that is according to them works best?
  Personally, I found that when I run one of these cleaners of the performance of the system at any time doesn't improve. And yes I know be careful and have a backup.

  On sea, December 2 09 20:20:33 GMT, detoam wrote:

  > I would like to know if Microsoft recommends
  > use Registry cleaners and if while we in
  > their opinion that works best? Personally, I have found that
  > from time to time when I run one of these cleaning products
  > improve the performance of the system.
  > And yes I know be careful and have a backup.

  I strongly recommend against the use of any registry cleaner. Registry
  cleaning programs are * all * snake oil. Cleaning the registry is not
  necessary and is dangerous. Let alone register and use any
  NY think and which suppliers of
  Registry cleanup software try to convince you to 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

  Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows desktop experience) since 2003
  Ken Blake

• What is so bad about registry cleaners?

  I have been using a program called by Iolo System Mechanic years. (FYI: I bought at Wal-Mart [I don't know if this helps or not])

  I used it on Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8.

  It deletes temporary and unnecessary files, defragments hard disks, verifies security issues, speeding up internet connections, fix registry errors and defragments the registry.

  It was no problem, many problems, that I had until I'm this program has also disappeared. He did my incredibly fast computers.

  In the end, why so many people say that registry cleaners are waiting to happen, to ruin your computers of disaster, etc.?

  To echo to BosDweebe start a new thread for a different subject than what help can ignore the original thread, because they know what that, we're on.

  However, what you describe is that is a classic example of a unmanaged which changed in the registry. I can't say that it is the cause in your case, but I'd be suspicious if you were using a reg cleaner on this computer.

  I'm also agreed Palcouk with all the tools you need in general are in Windows, just hunting them yourself instead of him be automated. What annoy me a little jump a lot on 'install X/Y/Z' as soon as a problem arises. In 20 years of fixing computers, I can count the times that I needed these programs on the fingers of one hand. Yes, they can help but work on the 1st computer before anything of another addition to the combination works best for me.

• Registry cleaners. Windows 7

  I downloaded a prod. called Registry Cleaner, from UniBlue. He said that I had more than 1300 errors reg. I had the comp. for 3 months and never seen an error message. Is this possible? Should I purchuse this product and run it?

  Do NOT run these stupid registry cleaners! They are useless and don't damage your windows:

  Read what Mark Russinovich wrote on these useless tools:

  "I don't and never will implement a registry cleaner since it's of little practical use on anything other than Win2K terminal servers and developing one that is safe and effective requires a huge amount of application-specific knowledge."

  http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/Archive/2005/10/02/registry-junk-a-Windows-fact-of-life.aspx

  "A programmer is just a tool that converts the caffeine in code" Deputy CLIP - http://www.winvistaside.de/

• I get an error on the use of registry cleaners on the computer.

  Original title: PLASRV does not exist in the registry

  Registry cleaner detects plasrv in windows/sys32 but reports that there is not. Can not solve the problem and can not remove. Report picks up 400 + files no that does not exist!

  Hello

  Thanks for keeping us posted and share this information with us.

  To add to the suggestions of tetraethyle3, I would like to add that registry cleaners, sometimes delete the registry files as well. The computer might end up in a State no boot as well. It is strongly recommended that you do not use these settings on the computer.

  NOTE: The use of third-party software, including hardware drivers can cause serious problems that may prevent your computer from starting properly. Microsoft cannot guarantee that problems resulting from the use of third-party software can be solved. Software using third party is at your own risk.

  Instead, you can use-

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/improve-performance-by-defragmenting-your-hard-disk

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/delete-files-using-disk-cleanup

  Let us know if you have other questions about Windows in the future. We will be happy to help you.

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  Yes, you can not. It is not supported. Maybe some hack is there...