Ccleaner and the registry?

[thewolfe]

I use Ccleaner but not the Registry area. Normally don't like to mess with the registry although I can back it up and also do a "Restore point" to be safe. What say you?

Heard Steve Gibson (grc.com) talk about using it on the Security Now show with Leo Laporte.

[Spidey]

Cleaning the reggie is way over hyped, unless you actually have a corrupted reggie.

[fliptw]

Cleaning a corrupted registry won't do anything... as windows won't boot with a corrupted registry.

[thewolfe]

My reg isn't corrupted but probably has a lot of leftovers after deleting programs although I use Revo Uninstaller that does a god job of getting the stragglers.

[Krom]

Registry cleaners really don't do anything worthwhile, and won't speed up your computer. Even the one in ccleaner really doesn't accomplish anything, clearing out the bits left behind from an uninstall isn't necessary since they won't do anything anyway even if they are left there.

[thewolfe]

Thanks for the posts.

[Tunnelcat]

I've used it sparingly for cleaning bits left over from things I uninstalled and know shouldn't be left over in there, like some game entries. There will usually be a name that I recognize in the list. But there's still a lot of crap in there I haven't touched. Too chicken.

[ThugsRook]

i clean my registry with CC quite often, never had a single problem.
been using CC for many, many years.

[Jeff250]

Registry cleaners are more likely to contribute to Windows rot than prevent it.