I will preface that this whole post is basically OT: That FAQ entry is basically a longer assertion of truth with no actual explanation as to why what is asserted is true, nor any references to any authority or company I recognize as having particular Microsoft Windows OS level insight. I.e. Wikipedia would say that article [citation needed].
That said, the OP would clearly not be helped by a registry cleaner, this seems obvious precisely because of your point that X2Go was *installed* at the time the cleaner was run. I'm not anyone with special insight, nor have I done a study, but in my personal experience, Registry cleaners like CCleaner have never hurt a Windows computer in any noticeable way. That said, I haven't seen them help noticeably either. To me, the concept is plausible, like defragmenting your disk - but on modern equipment, it rarely makes much difference in the vast majority of cases. And the only possible improvement might be a slight performance improvement - what Registry cleaners do doesn't fix specific issues as far as I can tell. For an almost obligatory automobile analogy, changing your transmission fluid(registry cleaner) is a different sort of thing than rebuilding your transmission(professional registry alterations to address very specific issues). -- James Pulver CLASSE Computer Group Cornell University -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stefan Baur Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2015 4:30 PM To: Robert Dinse Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [X2Go-User] where are settings stored on Windows -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Am 18.07.2015 um 22:25 schrieb Robert Dinse: >> That isn't how CCleaner works. Also, I would strongly advise against >> using any registry cleaner, most of them are just making things >> worse. > > I've used CCleaner on an old XP machine for years and it's never > toasted X2Go or anything else unintentionally. You are aware that registry cleaners promise to clean up registry entries left behind by uninstalled programs, and even if they would be 100% accurate in that, it would not have helped the original poster, *as he had X2GoClient (re)installed at the time he ran CCleaner*? OT: For a short, but very comprehensive FAQ on registry cleaners and why you should not use them, visit http://decentsecurity.com/registry-cleaners/ Kind Regards, Stefan - -- BAUR-ITCS UG (haftungsbeschränkt) Geschäftsführer: Stefan Baur Eichenäckerweg 10, 89081 Ulm | Registergericht Ulm, HRB 724364 Fon/Fax 0731 40 34 66-36/-35 | USt-IdNr.: DE268653243 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJVqrczAAoJEG7d9BjNvlEZOWsH/0Rvktfkt0oQK8L3pWLJAw+M Z2BNM5StR7CROXr+bD2kqKW/uxWAeM6GobyQmCruDUn6V48ERtBNWQjXfACmOqdN ZzF6u5kKn31gWO2zOSiE+/SRrtBjyHIyl0IJuqndsY7kipbUcFpbdvc2dewpGP7K 34ZEhInpzQ+/sXgaLe2n7ypLsb5aT4u5yvRTJIRPg52t7tb2sHmhY4FtxMe4idkZ XJTC2ZPCH6/qW5o22OTy9hFd6rSTB+nv86cOpAPWK2cY5QX5XN26RHhOT4YO+5DQ qG1s37bZz4zi8AdbcwdsYuz/Q00+NlCrErrv0EYOSCr1kW8sdYxRlhZ9DUf3M2k= =QBpV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ x2go-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x2go.org/listinfo/x2go-user _______________________________________________ x2go-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x2go.org/listinfo/x2go-user
