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Registry Cleaners - Do these things really work?

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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Defragmentation is generally the [i]only[/i] maintenance task your registry will require, and even then only if you're in the habit of installing and uninstalling applications repeatedly. The rest of it is generally bollocks - registry cleaners cause problems; their requirement is a myth perpetuated by companies that are trying to sell you their utilities, and then they generally tend to remove a lot of [i]useful[/i] entries with the so-called junk entries. Adding keys to block trojans?? That's a new one - anti-spyware utilities will do this without trashing the registry in the process. System defrag has nothing to do with the registry - but if you wish to manually maintain the registry in this manner anyway, I believe there is a Microsoft registry defragmentation utility that you can download. As for 'useless keys' - these are really not an issue, and certainly do not cause BSoDs... oh, hang on, you've acknowledged all that anyway, so... I maintain, with conviction, that if two identical machines used in precisely the same manner for a prolonged period of time were differentiated only by the regular use of a registry cleaner on one machine, there would be no performance improvement in the cleaned machine - in fact, you'd likely see an increase in errors and issues, and even security holes as a direct result of the cleaner. Registry cleaners just don't do anything useful, and are often the cause of serious issues. Seriously, if you feel like taking note of the BSoD information, there is much that can be garnered from it to identify the issue. Loading...
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