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Re: Registry Cleaners
On Sun, 5 Aug 2007 17:47:26 +0100, "Ian Betts" <igb123@talktalk.net>
wrote:
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>"Adam Albright" <AA@ABC.net> wrote in message
>news:u0rbb39rv0c69lns0pcuddadginicgs4om@4ax.com...
>> On Sun, 5 Aug 2007 16:17:30 +0100, "Ian Betts" <igb123@talktalk.net>
>> wrote:
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>>>You can physically delete things like icons and Start menu entries. You
>>>could also edit the register an easy way, but be very careful and save the
>>>reg before starting so you can go back,
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>>>First change your Start menu to Classic by right click/Properties.
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>>>Then click Run and type in regedit Go
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>>>In the Reg go Edit /Find and type the name of the program. Find every
>>>entry
>>>by hitting Find Next. Delete all highlighted program entries.
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>> I suppose there is a way to go to a beach and one by one pick up the
>> individual grains of sand and count them, but who would want to? Using
>> Regedit to manually search for specific tidbit over and over seems
>> silly to me when a Registry Clearer will generate a list of what it
>> finds suspect without interaction on part of the user.
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>> OF COURSE it is up to the user to determine what if anything should be
>> deleted from the Registry. What I object to is the numbnuts crowd
>> automatically rejecting Registry Cleaners outright pretending everyone
>> will just push some auto clean button. That is no more a reflection of
>> reality than the example of counting grains of sand on a beach is.
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>I don't reject Reg Cleaners but there are so many its a mine field for most
>users and most are time limited full cost programs.
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>The Find button example takes about 3 mins tops for any program so don't
>exaggerate
The find button in Regedit assumes you KNOW beforehand what exactly
you're looking for or it is useless. Don't mislead people. That's one
advantage of using Registry Cleaners since they can quickly scan the
entire Registry and build a list of orphaned keys. As always, with any
software you still need to decide what to do with the information
presented. The fanboys club always pretends people will foolishly push
some auto button most Registry Cleaners have which is just as silly as
suggesting people will keep shoveling food in their mouth and not stop
until they puke.
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