Re: Uniblue Registry Booster and registry scans.

On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:40:04 -0700, "rq" <> wrote:

> I am using this program to clean up my registry and it seems to work fine except the errors keep coming back. I can do a scan, clean up all the errors and then shut down and start up and I have a new 20 registry error list and most or all of the errors relate to "bad path for the value" and its windows files that seem to be at fault.
> I don't understand why Microsoft operating system would create registry errors on a startup, before anything has been installed etc.
>
> Any ideas on this, is RegistryBooster misleading me or what. I am running win 7 but it did the same thing on vista home premium so I think the question is valid for this group.
> Thanks.


Registry cleaning programs are *all* snake oil. Cleaning of the
registry isn't needed and is dangerous. Leave the registry alone and
don't use any registry cleaner. Despite what many people think, and
what vendors of registry cleaning software try to convince you of,
having unused registry entries doesn't really hurt you.

The risk of a serious problem caused by a registry cleaner erroneously
removing an entry you need is far greater than any potential benefit
it may have.

Read http://www.edbott.com/weblog/archives/000643.html

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
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I agree with Ken. In working on hundreds and hundreds of workstations and
servers I have never ONCE tried to use a registry cleaner. If there are
problems with the registry it usually is due to it being corrupt and a
registry cleaner will not fix that. If one has has removed
applications/executables trying to load at startup use msconfig to resolve
that and use Windows Installer CleanUp utility to resolve problems with
problem applications using Windows Installer. I have clients jack up
computers and servers pretty badly trying to use a registry cleaner [I am
not saying all are junk/dangerous but too many are] and they never seem to
have a backup of the System State, the whole computer, or the registry
before they ever try such.

Steve

"Ken Blake, MVP" <> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:40:04 -0700, "rq" <> wrote:
>
>> I am using this program to clean up my registry and it seems to work fine
>> except the errors keep coming back. I can do a scan, clean up all the
>> errors and then shut down and start up and I have a new 20 registry error
>> list and most or all of the errors relate to "bad path for the value"
>> and its windows files that seem to be at fault.
>> I don't understand why Microsoft operating system would create registry
>> errors on a startup, before anything has been installed etc.
>>
>> Any ideas on this, is RegistryBooster misleading me or what. I am
>> running win 7 but it did the same thing on vista home premium so I
>> think the question is valid for this group.
>> Thanks.
>
>
> Registry cleaning programs are *all* snake oil. Cleaning of the
> registry isn't needed and is dangerous. Leave the registry alone and
> don't use any registry cleaner. Despite what many people think, and
> what vendors of registry cleaning software try to convince you of,
> having unused registry entries doesn't really hurt you.
>
> The risk of a serious problem caused by a registry cleaner erroneously
> removing an entry you need is far greater than any potential benefit
> it may have.
>
> Read http://www.edbott.com/weblog/archives/000643.html
>
> --
> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
> Please Reply to the Newsgroup