Hello. What do think about RegistryBooster 2 for VISTA?
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JerzyMarian

I use it to clean and defrag the registry with good results. However, I know
a lot of people have strong biases against registry cleaners and feel that
they trash your registry. They may feel this way based on eperiences with
earlier registry software from the 90's, I don't know if anyone's had a bad
experience with current registry utilities, anyone?

"JerzyMarian" wrote:

Hello. What do think about RegistryBooster 2 for VISTA?
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JerzyMarian

Generally they do not help.

Use them only if you are fully knowledgeable in the use and backup
procedures in case something goes wrong.
Also you should be able to recognize a registry key as good or bad
before making the decision to delete/change.
Do NOT blindly accept any decision made by any of these so called
tools.
Used appropriately, you may or may not see any benefit.

For the most part, registry tools rank with snake oil and other
similar so called cures.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar
http://www.dts-l.org


"JerzyMarian" wrote in
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Hello. What do think about RegistryBooster 2 for VISTA?
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JerzyMarian

Hi,

What do you hope to accomplish from the use of one? Since Vista and XP do
not suffer from the problems of registry bloat experienced by the Win9x line
of products, the only purpose of one these tools is to make money for the
distributors. The problem most of the "general" cleaners is that they
misidentify seemingly dead entries as unneeded and remove them. At some
point later, system problems occur and the user will not likely be able to
relate the error to anything the cleaner did (instead they'll complain that
Windows is unstable or easily corrupted, when in fact it's their own fault).
The only time a registry cleaner tool should be used is when it is specific
to the removal of entries related to a particular program, and these are
generally distributed by the program vendor for free.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"JerzyMarian" wrote in message
...
Hello. What do think about RegistryBooster 2 for VISTA?
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JerzyMarian

Thank you for yours (Jupiter and You) advice. I have just uinstalled this
program.
--
JerzyMarian


"Rick Rogers" wrote:

Hi,

What do you hope to accomplish from the use of one? Since Vista and XP do
not suffer from the problems of registry bloat experienced by the Win9x line
of products, the only purpose of one these tools is to make money for the
distributors. The problem most of the "general" cleaners is that they
misidentify seemingly dead entries as unneeded and remove them. At some
point later, system problems occur and the user will not likely be able to
relate the error to anything the cleaner did (instead they'll complain that
Windows is unstable or easily corrupted, when in fact it's their own fault).
The only time a registry cleaner tool should be used is when it is specific
to the removal of entries related to a particular program, and these are
generally distributed by the program vendor for free.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"JerzyMarian" wrote in message
...
Hello. What do think about RegistryBooster 2 for VISTA?
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JerzyMarian

"uvbogden" wrote in message
...
I use it to clean and defrag the registry with good results. However, I
know
a lot of people have strong biases against registry cleaners and feel that
they trash your registry. They may feel this way based on eperiences with
earlier registry software from the 90's, I don't know if anyone's had a
bad
experience with current registry utilities, anyone?

"JerzyMarian" wrote:

Hello. What do think about RegistryBooster 2 for VISTA?
--
JerzyMarian

I encountered a very serious problem only once on one XP machine that I was
working on for a client immediately after using a well regarded registry
cleanup tool whose name need not be disclosed. I have used the same
utility many times and this happened only once, never before and never
since.

The problem was that immediately after I "cleaned" the registry, restarting
the machine produced a BSOD with a Stop Code that was neither revealing nor
helpful. Stupid me, I was complacent and lazy and had not first created a
full true image backup of the machine.

Clearly the client would be upset if I gave him back the machine in that
condition. I knew that my written service agreement had all the right
legalese to protect me from financial liability, but that would not save me
from damage to my reputation in this town.

All the usual "Hail Mary" efforts (Last Known Good, Safe Mode, ASR, Bart PE,
Win PE, et al) all failed to make the machine bootable from the hard disk.
The registry was obviously corrupted in some very serious way. Although I
am very familiar with the Windows Registry, at that time it was impossible
for me to identify the specific problem. This unhappy situation led me to a
new learning opportunity -- namely, I learned how to manually reconstruct
the Windows XP Registry from the Command Line.

The story has a happy ending. After a few hours of intensely focused
struggle, I was successfully able to recover the hard disk boot
functionality without any data loss. Many thanks to Microsoft for providing
me with the needed procedure. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545

A Google search for a similar knowledge base article applicable to Vista
returned mostly just the above article for XP or references to it. I don't
know if the structure of the Vista Registry is different from the XP
Registry. I rather suspect that it *IS* different since everything else is
too.

If anyone knows of a similar registry recovery article for Vista, I would be
grateful to learn where it can be found.

Meanwhile, I did like the looks of this site:
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/Using...ta.htm#vistakb

"Howard Leighty" wrote in message
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"uvbogden" wrote in message
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I use it to clean and defrag the registry with good results. However, I
know
a lot of people have strong biases against registry cleaners and feel
that
they trash your registry. They may feel this way based on eperiences
with
earlier registry software from the 90's, I don't know if anyone's had a
bad
experience with current registry utilities, anyone?

"JerzyMarian" wrote:

Hello. What do think about RegistryBooster 2 for VISTA?
--
JerzyMarian

I encountered a very serious problem only once on one XP machine that I
was
working on for a client immediately after using a well regarded registry
cleanup tool whose name need not be disclosed. I have used the same
utility many times and this happened only once, never before and never
since.

I always put a clean build on any machine I buy (you should always test your
recovery procedures and you don't want to do that when you need to). So
before I wiped this one I tried an Ashampoo product that claimed to be vista
compatible and it wiped the registry out. They still keep emailing me cheap
offers even though I told them it was destructive and I would never buy it.
I must admit that I was expecting problems as registry cleaners are at best
iffy.

I got a Uniblue popup and let it scan my registry out of curiousity. It told
me that I had 477 registry errors, and that I could have 15 fixed for free.
That was a bit of a flashing light for me, as any fool can write a code that
will tell you anything you want it to. So if I was to download and pay for
Uniblue, and have it clean my registry for 30 bucks, or however much it
costs, how do I know that it isn't just showing me some nice pretty dialogue
boxes and it's not doing anything real? What if it makes my PC sick and I
have to pay money to Uniblue for advice on how to fix it? It's all very
fishy to me. You never know.
I decided to see what this site had for advice and I'm glad I did. I'm
getting rid of Uniblue!

"JerzyMarian" wrote:

Thank you for yours (Jupiter and You) advice. I have just uinstalled this
program.
--
JerzyMarian


"Rick Rogers" wrote:

Hi,

What do you hope to accomplish from the use of one? Since Vista and XP do
not suffer from the problems of registry bloat experienced by the Win9x line
of products, the only purpose of one these tools is to make money for the
distributors. The problem most of the "general" cleaners is that they
misidentify seemingly dead entries as unneeded and remove them. At some
point later, system problems occur and the user will not likely be able to
relate the error to anything the cleaner did (instead they'll complain that
Windows is unstable or easily corrupted, when in fact it's their own fault).
The only time a registry cleaner tool should be used is when it is specific
to the removal of entries related to a particular program, and these are
generally distributed by the program vendor for free.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"JerzyMarian" wrote in message
...
Hello. What do think about RegistryBooster 2 for VISTA?
--
JerzyMarian

Don't use any cleaners on your registry. Just don't. Leave it alone.
Please.

Use Auslogics to compress your registry, if you want. It's free. They also
have a good disk defragmenter. It's free, too.

I'm sure others here will chime in on this and tell you the same thing.

Take care,

mE



"Catsoup" wrote in message
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I got a Uniblue popup and let it scan my registry out of curiousity. It
told
me that I had 477 registry errors, and that I could have 15 fixed for
free.
That was a bit of a flashing light for me, as any fool can write a code
that
will tell you anything you want it to. So if I was to download and pay
for
Uniblue, and have it clean my registry for 30 bucks, or however much it
costs, how do I know that it isn't just showing me some nice pretty
dialogue
boxes and it's not doing anything real? What if it makes my PC sick and I
have to pay money to Uniblue for advice on how to fix it? It's all very
fishy to me. You never know.
I decided to see what this site had for advice and I'm glad I did. I'm
getting rid of Uniblue!

"JerzyMarian" wrote:

Thank you for yours (Jupiter and You) advice. I have just uinstalled this
program.
--
JerzyMarian


"Rick Rogers" wrote:

Hi,

What do you hope to accomplish from the use of one? Since Vista and XP
do
not suffer from the problems of registry bloat experienced by the Win9x
line
of products, the only purpose of one these tools is to make money for
the
distributors. The problem most of the "general" cleaners is that they
misidentify seemingly dead entries as unneeded and remove them. At some
point later, system problems occur and the user will not likely be able
to
relate the error to anything the cleaner did (instead they'll complain
that
Windows is unstable or easily corrupted, when in fact it's their own
fault).
The only time a registry cleaner tool should be used is when it is
specific
to the removal of entries related to a particular program, and these
are
generally distributed by the program vendor for free.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"JerzyMarian" wrote in message
...
Hello. What do think about RegistryBooster 2 for VISTA?
--
JerzyMarian

I would not recommend any Uni Blue products. I purchased the registry
booster and was sorely disappointed. It did almost nothing for my computer.

They then offered me an "extra" service to help speed my computer up even
more. Then, I heard about "C cleaner."

C cleaner is a free program that cleans all of the junk off of your hard
drive while fixing your registry. In addition, it has a quick tool for
deleting programs off of your startup menu (which is key in helping your
computer run faster.)

I use see cleaner several times a day. Save it to your desktop. It is fast
and easy to use.

When you download see cleaner, there is an option to donate through PayPal.
I gave them five dollars, as they provide an awesome product free of charge.

I paid Uni Blue $20, basically, for a fraction of what C cleaner does for
free. Avoid Uni Blue at all costs. They are just out to take your money.

Here is the link to download C cleaner:

http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/



"JerzyMarian" wrote:

Hello. What do think about RegistryBooster 2 for VISTA?
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JerzyMarian