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Char Jackson

Well, there's CCleaner, RegCleaner, Registry Mechanic und so weiter.
That looks like a list of programs to be avoided. CCleaner is good at
cleaning other things up, but I wouldn't let it loose on a Registry.

I doubt if there are other general purpose programs (other than
so-called Registry programs, I mean) that happen to read the entire
Registry. The usual case simply specifies a single key to be read,
rather than reading the whole thing and parsing the results.
 
E

Ed Cryer

A very apt analogy.

I have a quote for you to add to your sig. list.

"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must
wash my hands".
(Friedrich Nietzsche)

Ed
 
Y

Yousuf Khan

Has anybody run this yet on W7?

Ed
Seems similar to CCleaner, only without all of the safety options of
disabling certain things from being scanned.

Yousuf Khan
 
B

Bruce Chambers

Ed said:
And, of course, Registry Defrag;
http://tinyurl.com/3axvkpw

Ed



Well, since the only programs you can identify are all useless snake
oil products that shouldn't be used, anyway, I don't think we need be
very concerned, do we?




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Bruce Chambers

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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand Russell

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has
killed a great many philosophers.
~ Denis Diderot
 
S

Stan Brown

Some programs operate by reading the whole registry.
Other than programs designed to operate on the Registry, which would
these be? (Even Regedit doesn't read the whole registry; it opens
particular keys as you expand them.) The only example I can think of
would be a backup utility, and of course that's not reading the
registry as a registry, simply as a couple of files to be backed up.

Windows API provides calls to read or write a particular Registry
key, and I find it *extremely* difficult to believe there is any sort
of application program that bypasses that and reads the entire
Registry.
 
S

Stan Brown

I do not like having orphaned registry entries in my registry.
Why? That is the question: *why* do you not like it. What
*specific* harm does it do?
 
E

Ed Cryer

Well, since the only programs you can identify are all useless snake oil
products that shouldn't be used, anyway, I don't think we need be very
concerned, do we?
Windows loads the registry at boot time.
Spybot Search and Destroy reads the whole thing.

Ed
 
L

Lewis

I have a quote for you to add to your sig. list.
"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must
wash my hands".
(Friedrich Nietzsche)
"He sees the good in every one. No one would ever take him for a
clergyman." -- Lucy Honeychurch
 

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