[SOLVED] Is Reno Uninstaller a safe program to use?

For the registry cleaning I have used REGISTRY MECHANIC for a couple of years now and never had any issues with it. It does a thorough job and have had a system crash yet due to using it.

I once bought a laptop that had that program on it, mabye four years ago, but I never used it. There are dozens, if not hundreds of these programs out there, and the bulk of them are garbage. You can, if you have the time, run these free scans and it doesn't matter if you have a new computer or one ten years old. They all "find" all kinds of things wrong, and one cleaner's scan will differ from the other. If they are legit, the results should at least be close to the others. That's like if you're sick, you go to three or four doctors, one says you'll be fine with rest, on the other extreme, you need major surgery. This actually happened to me, here I was with my lower spine eat up with osteoarthritis, and that's what the first specialist said to me. Gave me a note, told me to rest for two weeks and go back to work. It took the third one to correctly diagnose me. I needed a four level lumbar fusion, have part of a cadaver's spine bones in me with twenty pounds of hardware holding it all together. Well, with registry cleaners, it's the same. I read in a tech article recently that the best registry cleaner is none. If your OS is in that bad of shape, it's time for a fresh reinstall.

Concerning Glary...I only use the basic one-click scan and never touch the Registry Defragger or the other more indepth tools. I use the same thinking for CCleaner, run the standard scan and reg scan and leave the more advanced bits alone unless I have good reason to or on the knowledgable advise of others and always, always, always create a system restore point before using any of the advanced features

I will second that draceena.

That's smart thinking, draceena. Some of those tools can mess your system up.

catilley1092 wrote I do so wish others would follow your example mate as it would make some of my work a lot easier

I know this is not funny, however I couldn't help but laugh.

This thread has gone off-topic. Started out with a question about a software uninstaller and now has gone off on registry cleaners.

IMO, the debate is over.

well its true