Safest Registry Cleaner ?? !!

Hello Sevenforums,

ive been looking for a safe (good) registry cleaner. I heard that Ccleaner ist very good to clean the registry is that right ?? Is it recomended to clean the registry ??

Thanks

General consensus here:

CCleaner is the best if you INSIST you are going to use a cleaner.

But it isn't recommended, no.

I agree with Tews (of course) No registry cleaner is absolutely safe.

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HC4L said:

Hello Sevenforums,

ive been looking for a safe (good) registry cleaner. I heard that Ccleaner ist very good to clean the registry is that right ?? Is it recomended to clean the registry ??

Thanks

No it isn't!
Current accepted wisdom with Win 7 is to NOT use a cleaner at all.

If you ever think your Registry needs to be cleaned, repaired, boosted, tuned-up, cured, tweaked, fixed, or optimized it shouldn't.

Note - IMO - there is no reliable way for a third party program to know whether any particular key is invalid, redundant or neither.
Some registry cleaners may not know for sure whether a key is still being used by Windows or what detrimental effects removing it may have.
This has led to examples of registry cleaners causing loss of functionality and/or system instability.

HammerHead said:

But in the end result the skill of the user determines how safe they are.

Yeah, and how can any of use know with 100% certainty what to do?

You have a 1 in x chance of making an error due to lack of skill.

And you have a 1 in y chance of any perceptible benefit.

As far as I know, x is nearly always smaller than y---the risks exceed the benefits.

But I'm as big a fool as any of you--I occasionally can't restrain myself and insist on some registry cleaning.

No, I've never noticed any benefit from doing so.

But it gives me the reassuring feeling that I am in charge of things and "maintaining my computer". It's a useful fiction that I like to keep around.

All is vanity.