Re: Abexo Free Registry Cleaner

de teranews 05/12/2006 10:13

I have used regseeker RegSeeker.exe for since I had ME and find no
problem with it in Me or Xp.
Works great..

"Jim Byrd" <jrbyrd@spamlessadelphia.net> wrote in message
news:2eKdnTXvRIsFO_nZnZ2dnUVZ_umdnZ2d@adelphia.com...
> Hi Jeff - In my experience all of these Reg cleaners, even the best, are
> fraught with danger. I advise against using them except in one specific
> instance, that is when you have one that is capable of doing specific Reg
> searches, and you NEED (not just WANT) to remove the remaining traces of
> something that didn't get uninstalled correctly. (and you didn't have
> foresight enough to install it using Total Uninstall,
> http://www.martau.com/ or free direct dwnld here:
> http://digilander.libero.it/molearchive3/tun235.zip or here:
> http://freeware4u.com/modules/mydownloads/singlefile.php?lid=234, in the
> first place.) (As an aside, there are, however, some third party Registry
> Editors which can be of great help with both the incorrect uninstall and
> with certain malware problems, especially some of theCoolWebSearch types
> such as the AppInit_DLLs variant of the about:blank version of CWS, for
> example. I can recommend Registrar Lite, here:
> http://www.answersthatwork.com/Downright_pages/downrights_registry.htm
> This
> is intentionally the older 2.0 version - to see their most current stuff,
> take a look here: http://www.resplendence.com/registrar.)
>
> There are a couple of specific bugs that can cause abnormal growth in
> either
> the System or Software hives; however, they are rare, and unless these
> hives
> in %SystemRoot%System32config are very, very large (in the hundreds of
> megabytes), then I would council you to leave your Registry alone except
> for
> the special circumstances I mentioned above.
>
> I and most other MVP's that I know believe that Registry modifications of
> any type are probably best done manually, very carefully, with a thorough
> knowledge of what's installed on your machine, and what you're doing, and
> then only when necessary. There's very little (if any!) noticeable
> benefit
> in either space saving or speed achievable by cleaning out the Registry
> except in those few cases where there's a specific problem the client is
> experiencing (usually uninstall or malware related in my experience) that
> needs to be fixed.
>
> Lastly, if you must screw around with your Registry, then at least get
> Erunt/Erdnt, and run it before you do the Reg clean. You'll then have a
> true restore available to you. Read below to see why you might not just
> using the Reg cleaner's restore:
>
> Get Erunt here for all NT-based computers including XP:
> http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/ I've set it up to take
> a
> scheduled backup each night at 12:01AM on a weekly round-robin basis, and
> a
> Monthly on the 1st of each month. See here for how to set that up:
> http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/erunt.txt, and for some
> useful information about this subject.
>
> This program is one of the best things around - saved my butt on many
> occasions, and will also run very nicely from a DOS prompt (in case you've
> done something that won't let you boot any more and need to revert to a
> previous Registry) IF you're FAT32 OR have a DOS startup disk with NTFS
> write drivers in an NTFS system. (There is also a way using the Recovery
> Console to get back to being "bootable" even without separate DOS write
> NTFS
> drivers, after which you can do a "normal" Erdnt restore.) (BTW, it also
> includes a Registry defragger program). Free, and very, very highly
> recommended.
>
> FYI, quoting from the above document:
>
> "Note: The "Export registry" function in Regedit is USELESS (!) to make a
> complete backup of the registry. Neither does it export the whole registry
> (for example, no information from the "SECURITY" hive is saved), nor can
> the
> exported file be used later to replace the current registry with the old
> one. Instead, if you re-import the file, it is merged with the current
> registry, leaving you with an absolute mess of old and new registry keys.
>
> FWIW, the second question I ask clients is whether they've recently used a
> Reg Cleaner or tried to restore from one. (The first question I ask is
> whether they've any non-commercial Norton/Symantec software installed.
> )
>
> --
> Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP/DTS/AH-VSOP
> My Blog, Defending Your Machine, here:
> http://DefendingYourMachine.blogspot.com/
>
>
>
> "Jeff Needle" <jeff.needle@cwnet.com> wrote in message
> news:1267gi9jpgqph86@corp.supernews.com
> || "Tramp" <Jg3q2cB@Jg3q2cB.com> wrote in message
> || news:MPG.1ecd0673f6c00c7989805@news.snet.sbcglobal.net...
> ||| Use Abexo Free Registry Cleaner regularly to make your computer run
> ||| faster and with less problems.
> ||| http://www.abexo.com/free-registry-cleaner.htm
> ||
> || What is the general feeling around here about cleaning the registry?
> Is
> it
> || good, bad, dangerous???
>
>

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