Reg Cleaners..?

[Sir_Siddy]

Ok so a friend of mine wants to use a registry cleaner on his computer and has asked me for advice about it. I really dont know anything about them though...so

Any idea if these things actually work and how useful they are?

[shanenin]

I personally have not and will never use one. I don't trust any automated program to chop apart my registry. It seems unsafe. I am not sure they really do any good, assuming they don't do harm.

[Besttechie]

I'd have to agree with shane here. Personally if the registry has gotten really big and your machine has slowed down it's probably time for a reinstall. However, with that said I've never had to do a reinstall because of the registry. You would most likely have to install/uninstall a ton. Bottom line is you don't really need one.

B

[Sir_Siddy]

Ok thats what I suspected, but I like to get second opinions

[martymas]

yes i agree with BT

i used to use regcleaner

and it is safe if you stick to the rules

but i made a bit of a poo poo poo once

that was because i didnt stick to the rules

so i got rid of it

mind you it was my fault

which is easy to do

marty

[lefty1953]

Here is my experience with one I tried. Downloaded it ran it, looked like it was going to do some real cleanup, so I ran the cleaner. Right after that my Win updates would not work. Did A RESTORE POINT AND FIXED THAT. so I thought maybe I better look at those entries and pick the ones that look safe. Ran it again and deleted about half the entries. Same thing messed up my Win Updates. So I did another restore and deleted the Reg cleaner.

So if you run one, be ware of what it can or can't do for you.