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From: Maurice Helwig on 11 Jul 2010 03:02
Has anyone used this registry cleaner --

http://www.auslogics.com/en/

I have used their HD Defrag successfully and an looking for a good
registry cleaner.

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

Maurice Helwig
From: Pete on 11 Jul 2010 05:04
FredW wrote:

> There is no such thing as a "good registry cleaner".
> Registry cleaners *can* cause harm to your computer.

The power switch *can* cause harm to your computer, too.

Peter
From: VanguardLH on 11 Jul 2010 09:47
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.

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 11 Jul 2010 19:47
Maurice Helwig wrote:
> Has anyone used this registry cleaner --
>
> http://www.auslogics.com/en/
>
> I have used their HD Defrag successfully and an looking for a good
> registry cleaner.
>
> 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
>

There are two things to remember about registry cleaners:

1. There is absolutely NOTHING good that can come from a registry clearner -
not efficiency, not speed, not elimination of crashes or confusion.

2. Registry cleaners can render your computer inoperable.


From: jmv on 11 Jul 2010 22:55
"Maurice Helwig" <maurice_helwig(a)internode.on.net> wrote in message
news:i1bq9q$36b$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
> Has anyone used this registry cleaner --
>
> http://www.auslogics.com/en/
>
> I have used their HD Defrag successfully and an looking for a good
> registry cleaner.
>
> 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

I have used many registry cleaners over the years and none of them
has messed up Windows so badly that it would not load. However,
some of them managed to screw up my profile so that Windows was
no longer as usable as it was before. They mostly screwed up desktop
and icon settings and some file extensions.

Most of the the time a system restore fixed the problem as the restore
function of the registry programs never worked and occasionally they
just made it worse. A few times I had to restore my hard drive from
an image, which I create on a weekly basis, so it is no big deal to me
if a registry cleaner seriously screws up the operating system.

Having said all that, I had stopped using most registry cleaners a
year ago until the one by Auslogics came along. I have been using
their disk defrag program for a few years and decided to give the
registry cleaner a try.

I have used it several times and have not had any problems, but I
only let it scan the basic categories, not the advanced ones, and I
check the results to make sure that what it is going to delete is of
no use. If it screws up my operating system to the point where I
need to re-image the hard drive then I may stop using it, but so
far no problems.


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