I remember quite awhile ago while I was taking some classes, we would play "registry roulette" with the lab PCs. We would just randomly delete registry keys until the machine puked....
- Sean On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Michael Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote: > The cleaner in spybot is slightly better, in that it asks for > confirmation before every change. After a virus removal and a major tidy > then we look at the results and usually run a single pass. I like to know > what each entry is and over time you learn what you can safely remove. > Occasionally this can have a major impact, especially if it’s a reference to > a deleted AV product, but you need to also check for where the bad reference > is. If it’s an uninstall or a start-up app then it should be ok to tidy, if > it’s a driver or a system hook then be careful, take a backup and test. > > > > Mike > > > > *From:* Jon Harris [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* 02 April 2009 01:27 > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Registry Cleaners > > > > I worked on a system last week where the user had "cleaned" the registry > and the Windows folder so well much of his system was un-usable. Since I > was not his IT guy I just sent him home to talk to the person that put all > that trash on his system in the first place. I stopped counting when I hit > 6 different registry cleaners, 4 or 5 spyware checkers, and 2 antivirus > programs. He said he was told to run certain programs daily to keep it > clean. > > > > Jon > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Steven Calvanese < > [email protected]> wrote: > > I use Your Uninstaller instead of Add/remove programs. It removes the > program and all registry entries. > > > Steven Calvanese > [IT Support Technician] > MEMBER SOLUTIONS > [P]267.287.1023 > [F]267.287.1033 > > > > WWW.MEMBERSOLUTIONS.COM <http://www.membersolutions.com/> > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTE: This email and any attachments are confidential > and intended for the sole use of the persons named in the email. If you > are not the intended recipient, please notify MEMBER SOLUTIONS > immediately at 267-287-1000 and permanently remove this email from your > mailbox. Any disclosure, copying or distribution of this email by any > person who is not the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. > ________________________________ > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 6:25 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: RE: Registry Cleaners > > +1 > > I stay very far away from cleaners... > > I'd rather re-image. > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter van Houten [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 5:12 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Registry Cleaners > > +1 > > Don't massage the registry unless you know what you are doing. > > Registry Workshop has saved me many times and its powerful cumulative > search/search-replace function is brilliant: > > http://www.torchsoft.com/en/rw_information.html > > -- > Peter van Houten > > On the 01/04/2009 23:41, Carl Houseman wrote the following: > > Don't fix what isn't broken, If you use a reg cleaner every day > > sooner or later you will break something that was working. > > > > Carl > > > > From: Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 4:23 PM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: Registry Cleaners > > > > I recently had a discussion about Registry Cleaners with a friend. I > have > > never used them before and my friend swears by them. With a little > > research different products seem to do different things. Some clean, > > some compact, and some look for errors. > > > > Just for fun I can the registry clean built into CCleaner it found a > > few hundred errors but I didn't seem to notice a difference after I > > ran it and rebooted. > > > > What are your thoughts on them. > > > > Matt > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
