anyone tried CCleaner?

shaglund1:

 

Why do you want a registry cleaner? There is scant evidence that wholescale registry cleaning confers any benefits, and plenty of evidence that messing with the registry causes grief. Dead registry entries occupy little HD space, and cause no harm.

 

I use CCleaner, but I'm with Bugbatter on this. Leave the registry alone.

alright... i guess dont wake the beast on this one (the VISTA blue screen beast).

 

you see all those reg "cleaners" that say that you will see all these performance gains, so i thought id check it out on here before i ended up with a dead computer... and glad i did haha...

 

thanks guys.

hmmm... thats what i wanted was the reg cleaner.... i can delete all the other stuff with Disk Cleanup and IE7... or is this different somehow?

 

is there another reg cleaner without "Issues"?

Yes, we use it often around here, but we do not recommend using the Registry cleaning component which is called "Issues".

http://www.ccleaner.com/download/builds
** Select to download the SLIM version.

**Because CCleaner removes everything in temp folders, if you have anything in a temp folder, back it up or move it to a permanent folder prior to running CCleaner.


1. Before first use, select Options > Advanced and UNCHECK
" Only delete files in Windows Temp folder older than 48 hours"
2. Then select the items you wish to clean up.
In the Windows Tab:
• Clean all entries in the "Internet Explorer" section except Cookies (if you want to keep those).
• Clean all the entries in the "Windows Explorer" section.
• Clean all entries in the "System" section.
• Clean all entries in the "Advanced" section.
• Clean any others that you choose.
In the Applications Tab:
• Clean all except cookies (if you want to keep those) in the Firefox/Mozilla section if you use it.
• Clean all in the Opera section if you use it.
• Clean Sun Java in the Internet Section.
• Clean any others that you choose.
3. Click the " Run Cleaner" button.
4. A pop up box will appear advising this process will permanently delete files from your system.
5. Click " OK" and it will scan and clean your system.
6. Click " exit" when done.
REBOOT.

Some info here: http://www.whatthetech.com/2007/11/25/do-i-need-a-registry-cleaner/