Vista - can be empty registries harmful

Hello, I was just curious and scanned my computer for empty registries,
I have never done it, it showed five hundred empty registries, then I
installed another program it showed another number, now I dont know if
they are harmful or not and what program to use if there is a need to do
it. l also run defragmentation but it is very slow.


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"id999" <id999.3zwjvc@newsgroup> wrote in message
news:id999.3zwjvc@newsgroupGet a faster PC.
Better CPU, more RAM, a good GPU, Fast hard drive.
That matters.

The rest is hogwash, and any performance gain is imaginary.

that's because different programs
scan for different keys.

one registry program may only
scan for some keys that have no parent
files on the disk

while another may do the same
but also look for additional keys
in other branches in the registry.

in any case, when it comes to
registry cleaner simply use
Microsoft's online scanner called
one care to tune up your system.

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On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:42:20 +0530, id999 <id999.3zwjvc@newsgroup>
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What do you mean by "empty registries"? Exactly what did you do to
scan for them? What program did you use?


What other program?

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Leave the Registry alone. All Registry cleaning tools are snake oil remedies. Those
reg entries (orphans) will not do any harm or will not slow down your computer and
cleaning them out will not make your computer faster. Leave it alone. One entry
removed by those tools can cause irreparable damage by not letting your computer
boot up. Even if the tool makes back ups of the reg entries that it removes then
what will you do if you cannot get to those back ups to rectify the issue when you
are not able to boot your system

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"id999" <id999.3zwjvc@newsgroup> wrote in message
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Neophytes have no business fooling with the registry. Yet, it is sometimes
necessary to do so.
There are recovery methods available that load sort of a stripped down
registry version to run with, until
the registry can be "restored" or replaced with a properly configured
version.

I blame software vendors for making manual registry editing necessary. This
is usually due to poorly written uninstall schemes, or an uninstall
done impropely. The most common offenders in the past were printer and
camera vendors. A more recent problem was with a well known and respected
backup and disk utility. Some vendors have deliberately made changes during
the install process that are difficult to find, not fully documented, and
not removed with the vendors or windows uninstall process. Sometimes, these
changes prevent competing software from installing, or working properly.

"Peter Foldes" <okf22@newsgroup> wrote in message
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Ken Blake, MVP;4647566 Wrote:I used Reg Cure and Revo. Revo was advised to me.


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