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From: Kevryl on 1 Jun 2010 02:30
Thaks Pip. You'd think tho that while such 3rd party utilities are dangerous
MS could get it right themselves though, especially as Uninstall Shield
doesn't seem to do harm (or does it? Dunno)

Having said that, I'm a victim of "Easy Transfer's" ability to scramble my
computer. I'm trying to forget that. :-|


"pip22" wrote:

>
> The reason Microsoft don't provide a built-in Registry Checker is
> because they consider them unsafe and capable of doing more harm than
> good. After several years of using various Registry Checkers myself I'm
> now on the side of "leave well alone".
>
> This change of opinion has been brought about by having had a few
> registry-related errors and crashes which I've never had since I stopped
> use such utilities, and I've tried many of them, both free and
> commercial ones.
>
> I now prefer to check the Registry manually after uninstalling a
> program, just to delete the program key in the 'Software' sections - and
> that's all (unless I'm fixing a particular problem and the instructions
> involve editing or adding a Registry entry).
>
>
> .
>
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