Are Registry Cleaners Still Needed on Windows 10?

Hi,

What makes you think that MS would create a tool that would be so dangerous and a third party vendor would make one so much better?

MS had a tool for just that but they quickly abandoned it.Too powerful for the punters.
Guess it came with a resourcekit years ago. or Sysinternals.

Cheers,

BunnyJ said:

Isn't CCleaner just an automated process and you really don't need to know that much?

It can, I wouldn't really do it. You can run the program and it will present you a list of suggested items for removable and you can select which ones to remove.

Hi,

How about a Petarch one then : Who naught suspects is easily deceived. Petrarch

How true. Applicable to the Registry as well .

Good quote Sir.

All in good spirit, bien entendu.

Cheers,

Hi,

CountMike said:

Only "defense" is to use portable programs.

Those too write to the registry.

Cheers,

Hi,

CountMike said:

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And, if I may ask, what has changed to the registry and how it's read and handled since then ?

Answer: Nothing.

Cheers,

A while back with xp and vista (95?), I do remember seeing performance increases after running ccleaner's registry cleaner. I recall one computer could barely run at all - slow motion - and a registry cleaning (there were many hundreds of entries) made the computer normal. I guess this is not the case these days with improved OS functioning and memory etc. I haven't seen any performance or improvements with cleaning... just with defragging but even that Windows takes care of pretty well now. I still clean the registry very occasionally I guess mainly out of habit and I just like the registry totally correct - an anal thing i guess. I ran it after creators update (twice) and the computer is fine. And the registry is perfect.

Here is the rationale given for registry cleaning by ccleaner:

CCleaner - Use the registry cleaner to repair your registry

Hi,

DooGie said:

This debate has been going on for years with no definitive outcome.

My last post on this thread. Each to their own.

It's important to know how registry entries affect a computer though. All binary and all that @ Doogie.
It's that binary part that makes the registry so important to have it right.

Cheers, ; )