How much do you trust registry cleaners?

If you use CCleaner, and I do, and haven't visited the Piriform web site lately, they've installed a "donate button" so you can toss a little money at the devs, if you're so disposed. It's the right thing to do.

So there is alot of debating here on this topic and had read every one very interesting, so i just decided to give ccleaner another shot, i ran the regular cleaner that deleted about 1 gigs of temporary files and internet history, than i went ahead and ran the registry cleaner which had detected about 671 issues, alot of them referring to missing dlls and etc, so i did all of that and restarted my pc ( Its still under warranty and i can always do a system recovery so didn't really matter) the strange thing is i did notice some what of a improvement with the booting of windows went down to a little 5 seconds and programs seems to open quicker and a bit responsive. Im not sure if thats ccleaner doing or what, all i know was the last time i did ran it my pc performance was decreased now it increased by a bit, either my pc is drunk or it is just me, any answers on what happened because im still confused

Britton that caught my attention. I've been warned over the years not to run CCleaner (or defrag) that often. I once ran it once a week and was warned by several experts I trust that isn't a good idea. I now run it about once per month if that often and it seems to keep up nicely. Maybe others know for sure about frequency issues.

Due you run CCleaner for cleaning garbage only or do you also clean your registry about once a month?

gregrocker said:

Britton that caught my attention. I've been warned over the years not to run CCleaner (or defrag) that often. I once ran it once a week and was warned by several experts I trust that isn't a good idea. I now run it about once per month if that often and it seems to keep up nicely. Maybe others know for sure about frequency issues.

Whenever I run CCleaner I run the Registry tab too. I've done so for about 15 years it seems, without an issue. But sometimes it stretches for several months before I run it. If it finds too much schmutz, I remember to run it more often.

That is great. And I suppose that you agree with me that Registry Cleaners are not all that bad as they are being made out to be. They are a good example of "More sinned against than sinning".

gregrocker said:

Whenever I run CCleaner I run the Registry tab too. I've done so for about 15 years it seems, without an issue. But sometimes it stretches for several months before I run it. If it finds too much schmutz, I remember to run it more often.

May I butt in here please.
This discussion is now between Geeks who know exactly what they are doing...

Quite often the "Joe Blows" who ask our advice are not so tech savvy.
Often they have trouble giving sufficient information to us in a thread detailing their problem{s}.
Upon reading what is being discussed here currently they may see a green light of approval & rush headlong into who knows what.

"One cap does NOT always fit all."

With respect...
Jan.

I see the need for it in the proper hands. My irk is that it is so often given to a first poster with english as a second language where it can do great harm.

I dont recommend its use until I am sure they can understand it and far less often than the noobs think it is.


Caveat emptor