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[Bob I]

Well, there's CCleaner, RegCleaner, Registry Mechanic und so weiter.

Ed

Exactly the point we have be trying to make!

 

[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.

 

[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

 

[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

 

[Bruce Chambers]

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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[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.

 

[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?

 

[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

 

[Stan Brown]

Windows loads the registry at boot time.

Believe that, if it comforts you.

 

[Char Jackson]

Windows loads the registry at boot time.
Spybot Search and Destroy reads the whole thing.

Ed

Tip: you're in a hole. Stop digging. ;-)

 

[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

 

[Flint]

LOL!

And in Billy Gates, his 'Big Daddy' lawyer, and the Holy Spooky dood
Steve Ballmer, we *pay*....