Are Registry Cleaners Still Needed on Windows 10?

meebers said:

Why do "people" use disk cleanup? The files are there, they hurt nothing, erasing them does not speed up performance blah blah blah!

Because my last one was 86GB just in windows.old. 4. to 5GB in download folder and 2GB in Temp files and it's only 240GB SSD !!!! Good enough reason ?

The recovery of space by performing a disk cleanup. and is rarely if ever detrimental,

Registry cleaning is rarely of practical use as the amount of space saved is negligible,

Aggressive cleaning of the registry has caused system failures (ccleaner is a non aggressive registry cleaner, and I have ran it myself, after a full backup of the system and the registry, to highlight potential keys and branches to be manually removed, I allow it to analyze only, any repairs are performed manually using regedit ),.

My own experience in having to re-install systems for users who have believed the salesmen of aggressive registry cleaning products is all the evidence I have, but is sufficient for me YMMV

meebers said:

So you just want to clean them out to save space?

Of course, that's what it's for, registry is not cleaned in any way. Same reason I throw garbage out and not collect it.

meebers said:

But there are a lot of entries that are removed. (not using the word clean)

Possibly but Ccleaner didn't flag them either.

fdegrove said:

Hi,

Registry collects a lot of garbage too. Leaving it there won't harm anything mostlikely but then why collect useless entries in a registry ?

A decent regcleaner should make a ful backup of the registry and a backup of everything you let it remove.
A regcleaner does not "fix" problems but might prevent them from happening.

Cheers

Never had that privilege.