From: PhilD on

<carl(a)where33.org> wrote in message
news:5rgqp55qo6tsfa3dvpcv3fkd1675nmremv(a)4ax.com...
> On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:01:22 -0700, Boris Badenov
> <boris(a)plotsylvanian.invalid> wrote:
>
>>Peter Foldes wrote:
>>> Registry Cleaners does nothing to speed up your system. All it will do
>>> is mess it up and at times to the point where you cannot boot.
>>
>>That is mostly true but the reg cleaner in CCleaner is quite safe and
>>does not remove all invalid entries. I've used it many times and it has
>>never 'effed things up on me yet. I use it to erase history info which
>>is stored in the registry so it does have it's uses. Speeding up the PC
>>is not my reason for using it.
>
> CCleaner screwed my registry the very first time I ever tried it.
> Luckily, I believe in backing up my registry with Erunt before ever
> screwing with it. After another 'adventure' or two with registry
> cleaners, I gave up on them. Their dangerous. I use the registry
> optimizer here,
> http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
> along with Erunt. The only work I do on my registry is to manually
> remove entries after I uninstall a program. Even this can get you
> into trouble if you aren't very careful.
>
> ALWAYS backup your registry with Erunt BEFORE modifying it in any way.
> (Don't even bring up that joke of a Windows program, Windows Restore
> Point.)
Why not just export the Registry from within itself, save to Desktop, and if
things go wrong just run the saved file to re-enter previous settings?


From: David Kaye on
ASCII <me2(a)privacy.net> wrote:

>None of that will prevent big brother from kicking the door, screwing a pistol
>in my ear and taking the computer, but it won't have anything interesting.

So, you're saying that it has nothing to do with running a fast machine and
everything to do with hiding under a bed and waiting for the commies to come
and take over? Sorry to be disagreeable here, but your post does appear to
be a bit paranoic.

From: Boris Badenov on
smurf wrote:

> that must be an automated bot response

My PC is finally fast, FINALLY FAST!
From: Boris Badenov on
~BD~ wrote:

> Indeed, I have always been amazed that posters a prolific as you, Peter
> Foldes, Tom Willett, PABear, Siljaline (to name just a few) are still
> using Outlook Express as their newsreaders. It just strikes me as odd.
>

Why? It gets the job done and does have a spell-checker.
From: Boris Badenov on
David Kaye wrote:

> Oh? I have done benchmarks that prove defragging speeds up a PC. I have also
> done two benchmarks that show that even the best registry cleaner, CCleaner,
> doesn't do anything measurable to speed. Yeah, there was about a 1% speedup
> but that could have been attributable to a prefetch or pagesys I forgot to
> remove.


Post your benchmarks and testing method. The benchmark probably measures
in nano-seconds which may look like a huge difference on paper but is
neglible in the real world.

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