Vista - Easycleaner Registry Cleaner on Vista

I tried most 3rd party defrag software and found that initially the all looked good but after a while you will notice a loss of performance. Have gone back to the Vista one. But that test was performed on 64bit.

The only reason I use the built-in one is because it's automatic and free. Why bother with third-party apps? Because I run it off-hours, it doesn't affect me that much whether it takes 10 minutes or 60. I don't notice any changes in performance between the built-in defragger and third-party apps (although I have only free defraggers which were Auslogics and JKDefrag).

On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 06:29:13 +0530, supertechgeek
<supertechgeek.32je7d@xxxxxx> wrote:

Unfortunately, yes.


Unless what the registry cleaner does is bad enough that you can not
boot. And that sometimes happens.


I'm glad to hear you haven't had a problem, but you've been lucky.
Nobody claims that a registry cleaner will screw up your computer
every time you use one. Most of the time, you get away with it. But
there is *always* a risk, and since the registry cleaner does nothing
that's worth doing, it makes no sense to take any risk at all.



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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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the Free CCleaner is very good and I think nessesary on all win. OS's

On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 05:35:06 -0600, caretaker
<caretaker.32ntpd@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net> wrote:

Although CCleaner is certainly not at all necessary, it *is* a good
product. I use it myself. But it does many different things, and the
one thing I strongly recommend *not* using it for is its registry
cleaning function.

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CCleaner is A1. As long as one makes a backup first it's a very good product, and it will speed up XP or Vista by removing the crap. Highly recommended by thousands of people

What are these things doing anyway? I used Registry Mechanic for quite
awhile. It is very busy... can you explain what it is doing that is
worthless?

Anyway... I did a Disk Cleanup once and had some huge "per user archived
windows error reports"... many gigs. Looked wrong to me but I cleaned
them anyway and that was the end of my system... totally trashed. Had to
start from scratch. I found that error was caused by a couple missing
items in the registry and, supposedly, the missing items were caused by
running Registry Mechanic.

So now I run the registry thing but I never delete per user files using
Disk cleanup. I gather that is just plain stupid from your way of thinking.

so... what are those cleaners doing?

John


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