Re: can be empty registries harmful

Leave the Registry alone. All Registry cleaning tools are snake oil remedies. Those
reg entries (orphans) will not do any harm or will not slow down your computer and
cleaning them out will not make your computer faster. Leave it alone. One entry
removed by those tools can cause irreparable damage by not letting your computer
boot up. Even if the tool makes back ups of the reg entries that it removes then
what will you do if you cannot get to those back ups to rectify the issue when you
are not able to boot your system

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> Hello, I was just curious and scanned my computer for empty registries,
> I have never done it, it showed five hundred empty registries, then I
> installed another program it showed another number, now I dont know if
> they are harmful or not and what program to use if there is a need to do
> it. l also run defragmentation but it is very slow.
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Neophytes have no business fooling with the registry. Yet, it is sometimes
necessary to do so.
There are recovery methods available that load sort of a stripped down
registry version to run with, until
the registry can be "restored" or replaced with a properly configured
version.

I blame software vendors for making manual registry editing necessary. This
is usually due to poorly written uninstall schemes, or an uninstall
done impropely. The most common offenders in the past were printer and
camera vendors. A more recent problem was with a well known and respected
backup and disk utility. Some vendors have deliberately made changes during
the install process that are difficult to find, not fully documented, and
not removed with the vendors or windows uninstall process. Sometimes, these
changes prevent competing software from installing, or working properly.

"Peter Foldes" <> wrote in message
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> Leave the Registry alone. All Registry cleaning tools are snake oil
> remedies. Those reg entries (orphans) will not do any harm or will not
> slow down your computer and cleaning them out will not make your computer
> faster. Leave it alone. One entry removed by those tools can cause
> irreparable damage by not letting your computer boot up. Even if the tool
> makes back ups of the reg entries that it removes then what will you do if
> you cannot get to those back ups to rectify the issue when you are not
> able to boot your system
>
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> "id999" <> wrote in message
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>> Hello, I was just curious and scanned my computer for empty registries,
>> I have never done it, it showed five hundred empty registries, then I
>> installed another program it showed another number, now I dont know if
>> they are harmful or not and what program to use if there is a need to do
>> it. l also run defragmentation but it is very slow.
>>
>>
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I agree.
By the way, remember the old days... no vendor was expected to provide
automated Uninstall, and Registry - in fact entire filesystem was so small I
still remember not using a Search to find files; as I simply memorized what
is where! I even remember when Windows didn'tr have much of a search other
than DOS-style string search....
I knew every system file and registry could be scrolled from top to bottom
with a few "PageDown" clicks (the wheel mice were not yet common).

Registry was not even used by many applications, instead they kept their
stuff in "*.ini" files".
And once per day you would get "GPF error" and lose your work!