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From: HeyBub on 13 Jul 2010 08:05
Nicetameetya wrote:
>
> Never had a problem and notice a marked improvement in speed after I
> run WRRP and clean my registry every couple of months.

And many notice an improvement, even a cure, after chiropractic adjustment,
naturopathy, aroma therapy, homeopathy, placebos, astrological charts, or
sleeping under a pewter pyramid.

I'm not saying you didn't experience nirvana, but until you can demonstrate
the specific cause of the improvment and/or quantify the results, I'm
reluctant to accept anecdotal assertions as evidence.


From: Bob Adkins on 13 Jul 2010 08:28
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:05:50 -0500, "HeyBub" <heybub(a)NOSPAMgmail.com>
wrote:

>Nicetameetya wrote:
>>
>> Never had a problem and notice a marked improvement in speed after I
>> run WRRP and clean my registry every couple of months.
>
>And many notice an improvement, even a cure, after chiropractic adjustment,
>naturopathy, aroma therapy, homeopathy, placebos, astrological charts, or
>sleeping under a pewter pyramid.
>
>I'm not saying you didn't experience nirvana, but until you can demonstrate
>the specific cause of the improvment and/or quantify the results, I'm
>reluctant to accept anecdotal assertions as evidence.
>

Yea, but knocking down annoying error dialogs are real, as is killing
dozens of dead links/start menu entries, etc.

I agree that "registry repair" benefits are mostly placebo effect. But
what would people think when they came for a visit and saw your
registry in a goshawful mess? You can't take a chance on that, people
talk you know. :)
From: Franklin on 13 Jul 2010 13:16
VanguardLH wrote:

> Maurice Helwig wrote:
>
>> Has anyone used this registry cleaner --
>>
>> http://www.auslogics.com/en/
>>
>> I realize that the registry is a place where one treads carefully
>> so a good cleaner is a must -- and an image backup before you start
>> too
>
> Don't know of any registry cleaners that do a [partition] image
> backup so you can recover when (not if) the registry cleaner with
> its static rules ends up fouling your registry so bad that Windows
> won't load.
>
> There are many that save backups of the registry (to undo their
> changes) but that is worthless if Windows won't load after the
> changes were made. You need Windows to load okay in order to run
> their registry cleaner program so it can do its restore.

Reg cleaners can sure be a menace.

In theory I suppose you could copy the backed up registry files to the
folders in C:\Windows\System32\Config\ but it's such a painstaking
procedure and likely to result in a reg that's out of synch with the rest
of the system.

> You need to have an image backup to restore your hard disk to its
> prior state before you did the registry cleanup in case that cleanup
> hosed over Windows or your user profile so they are unusable. That
> means getting a separateNop image backup program since the registry
> cleaner programs don't include one.
From: HeyBub on 13 Jul 2010 16:39
Bob Adkins wrote:
>> I'm not saying you didn't experience nirvana, but until you can
>> demonstrate the specific cause of the improvment and/or quantify the
>> results, I'm reluctant to accept anecdotal assertions as evidence.
>>
>
> Yea, but knocking down annoying error dialogs are real, as is killing
> dozens of dead links/start menu entries, etc.
>
> I agree that "registry repair" benefits are mostly placebo effect. But
> what would people think when they came for a visit and saw your
> registry in a goshawful mess? You can't take a chance on that, people
> talk you know. :)

You raise a good point that reminds me of a wonderful book: "What do you
care what other people think?" Here's a vignette from the book (paraphrased)

RING-RING
"Hello"
"Is this Dr. Feynman?"
"Yes"
"Dr Richard P. Feynman?"
"Yes"
"Dr Feynman, my name is Joe Blow. I am the United States Ambassador to the
Court of King Gustav V of Norway. It is my distinct pleasure to inform you
that you have been awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics!"
....
"Do you know what the hell time it is in California?"
"...er, no..."
"It is three o'clock in the goddamn morning. Call back after nine."
CLICK
"????"


From: Nicetameetya on 13 Jul 2010 18:24

[Default] On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:05:50 -0500, "HeyBub"
<heybub(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> told us in complete confidence:

>
>I'm not saying you didn't experience nirvana,

No ... you're just putting words in my mouth and being very
patronising. Do your own homework, bub.

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