Registry Cleaner to use or not to use?
For all the years that I have been using computers I’ve used a registry cleaner maybe three times. And, on all of those occasions I never really saw a dramatic difference in system performance afterwards. In my opinion it is simply not worth using a registry cleaner.
There is no reliable way for a third party program to know whether any particular key is invalid, redundant or neither.
Badly designed registry cleaners may not know for sure whether a key is still being used by Windows or what harmful effects removing it may have. This has led to examples of registry cleaners causing departure of functionality and/or system imbalance.
Although the advantages look like they out balance the disadvantages it will only cause harm to the system.
My principal belief is that the best registry cleaner is no registry cleaner at all. Most people simply don’t need it and don’t need to have one.
Some people reach for a registry cleaner when an application is having problems, or when Windows is not functioning as it should. The problem is that these types of situations rarely respond to registry “cleaning” it often requires application or Windows-specific resolution.
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Nail on the head! There’s no need for a registry cleaner. It can cause a lot more bad then good.