Registry Cleaner

[Ridingwolf1]

Hi there.  New to the forums, but a long time follower of Linus.

 

My wife and I need a new registry cleaner and searching online for reviews is only showing articles that are about a year or more old.  Since I know Linus and his community have their fingers on the pulse of current computer technology, I thought I would implore here for help.

 

In previous years, I had used Registry First Aid, which at the time was close to the cream of the crop, but the most recent mention of it I can find is June 2016 where it was PCWorld's #1 reg cleaner.

 

Thank you in advance for any help!

[Lurick]

I've always used CCleaner for registry cleaning and other file cleanup on the system. Works well, easy to use, and free  

[Princess Luna]

you should not clean your registry, all programs that promise "maintenance" by tempering with the registry are more likely to do harm than good, technically the registry never needs any sort of cleaning it is pointless and you gain nothing from it but if something important gets messed up you'll suffer the consequences.

 

Never believe programs that should "boost performance" they are 99% of the time quite malicious and deceiving.

[manikyath]

5 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

you should not clean your registry, all programs that promise "maintenance" by tempering with the registry are more likely to do harm than good, technically the registry never needs any sort of cleaning it is pointless and you gain nothing from it but if something important gets messed up you'll suffer the consequences.

 

Never believe programs that should "boost performance" they are 99% of the time quite malicious and deceiving.

you'd be amazed how much junk ends up in the registry, and how much of a speed boost you can get from washing the junk out.

[Princess Luna]

Just now, manikyath said:

you'd be amazed how much junk ends up in the registry, and how much of a speed boost you can get from washing the junk out.

It's all placebo effect from the applications screaming "your pc is now safe/speeded up" from most I read about the subject.

 

https://www.howtogeek.com/171633/why-using-a-registry-cleaner-wont-speed-up-your-pc-or-fix-crashes/

 

[Lurick]

Just now, Princess Cadence said:

It's all placebo effect from the applications screaming "your pc is now safe/speeded up" from most I read about the subject.

 

https://www.howtogeek.com/171633/why-using-a-registry-cleaner-wont-speed-up-your-pc-or-fix-crashes/

 

The CCleaner registry cleaner is actually pretty good. It's great for cleaning up junk left behind after uninstalling products that don't properly clean up after themselves.

[manikyath]

2 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

It's all placebo effect from the applications screaming "your pc is now safe/speeded up" from most I read about the subject.

 

https://www.howtogeek.com/171633/why-using-a-registry-cleaner-wont-speed-up-your-pc-or-fix-crashes/

 

its totally placebo effect when it can have measurable difference?

 

talking a pool of ~300 devices that i personally do this stuff on.

[Princess Luna]

Just now, manikyath said:

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Heheheh yeah all placebo because ya know you're not the only that has access to multiple devices as if that should mean you're some sort of expert or something.

 

I already expressed my opinion to the OP, I'm not here to convince third people of any thing.

[manikyath]

Just now, Princess Cadence said:

Heheheh yeah all placebo because ya know you're not the only that has access to multiple devices as if that should mean you're some sort of expert or something.

 

I already expressed my opinion to the OP, I'm not here to convince third people of any thing.

i'll put it differently;

all of these devices are notably faster after this kind of junk gets cleaned up than they are before.

 

talking CCleaner specificly, i've only had one case where it did something bad, and that was entirely down to bad software development on the "receiving end" so to say, and was corrected quite easily.

 

the junk in your registry doesnt make much of a difference, but especially after a few years of regularly installing, uninstalling, and updating software it ends up piling up to pretty extreme proportions. cleaning up that junk, along with useless files taking up space (another thing that in your placebo world "doesnt make the damnest difference" in the world of SSDs), not only helps you "keep clean house", it also makes your system run notably smoother.

 

as for addressing your comments;

- i'm technically a professional in this area, considering my job

- you're not here to convince anyone, yet you're preaching around using a 4 year old article that this software is the devil?

[manikyath]

9 minutes ago, Lurick said:

The CCleaner registry cleaner is actually pretty good. It's great for cleaning up junk left behind after uninstalling products that don't properly clean up after themselves.

i've actually (rather unexpectedly) had ccleaner "fix" a piece of software that was broken even after reinstalling. running a ccleaner run in between made things less unhappy. (HP Support Assistant of all things...)