It's true, Microsoft and my HP have told me that I shouldn't use Registry Cleaners, they can remove registry keys that are not recognised. Go and ask Microsoft, and your computer manufacture. They will say the same information as what I said.
Aikma
I have read this statement many times over the years. In Win 98 days, Microsoft did, with justification, disapprove of their use. However (imo) the remark is now hackneyed and untrue. I would not be ashamed to be corrected, but would like any reader to point me to a page where Microsoft have currently said that. On the contrary, they have even, in recent times, pointed to cleaning software of which they approve. If they did, on the otherhand, disapprove, would they have published this, from one of their leading designers, Mark Russinovich.
Mark's Blog : Registry Junk: A Windows Fact of Life
But any registry cleaning programs,including CCleaner can be dangerous to your computer andt here is also no evidence that cleaning the registry improves the performance of the OS.
One misuderstanding is that users tend to think cleaning the registry will make it smaller and more efficient. But what is happens is gaps are created in the registry’s file, and the registry remains the same size.. Fundamentally, this means that, although they are spaces, the whole registry is still being read by programs, and does not help to speed up anything. Furthermore, the gaps will be found by new data, which will only help to fragment the registry This will actually slow down the operations, not speed them up. Registry cleaning will, most certainly, not improve your system speed. Even after removing left over keys, I doubt you will find a difference.
With this in mind, it can be seen that, the more you clean your registry, the more it will become fragmented. This will mean a slower system, opposite of what you are trying to accomplish.
Any cleaner can miss rogue entries and, at the same time, remove entries that are in use or marked for use.
The best registry cleaning is that done manually, as I reiterated in a link to an earlier post::
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ReQuote "When I install or reinstall Windows oS, whatever flavour, my first project is customisation . I then install all my software and customise it. This whole process is tedious but worth the effort. I finish up with about 28 Gbs of used space.
During the installations, I also install "Advanced System Care" and "Ccleaner". Right. Ready for action. I run the Microsoft disk cleaner, and clean all the functions on the drop menu. I then run AWC on its defaults, and Ccleaner ditto. To date I have never had a problem with this, but it may depend on your particular hardware and software installations.
That is the first and last time I use a cleaner, apart from the disk cleaner. From then on, whenever I have installed unknown software, and uninstalled it, I open the registry and go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER - software and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE - software, and manually delete any items which may have been left over from poor uninstalls.)
If a user is nervous about this, leave it entirely alone. If you are subjected to malware attacks, and have no idea how to search manually for them, then there is a darn good case for a "one off" use of a reg cleaner.
