What is upsetting my Vista Registry?
Tuneup Utilities 2008 found, and fixed, 403 problems in my registry. Tuneup Utility 2007 would find maybe ten per cent of that. Yet, everything is working fine. I have used over aggressive registry cleaners and they break things. Nothing is broken, but where are all these problems coming from in the first place?
Most of the debris cleaned up with registry sweepers are caused by programs that are uninstalled and orphan files and folders left behind. Also, anytime you move a file or folder that had a short cut linked to it it leaves an orphaned shortcut in the registry. Also, a lot of programs are written by "sloppy" programmers and have a lot of junk deposited around after the installation that never gets deleted.
I’d caution you to be careful with registry cleaners. Machines don’t think and software that is supposed to be written to think FOR machines usually think even less. A lot of times what these cleaners see as junk are in fact things like install.dat files that are needed to uninstall some programs. Once deleted you can’t uninstall the program the conventional way and usually do more damage to the registry trying to get rid of the program.
Just my two cents………
For a start tune up utilities is inclined to invent non existent problems. Also the system often changes registry settings during updates etc, and a registry checker will pick up changes which are not important. These are not all problems, an unused entry does no harm.
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Most of the debris cleaned up with registry sweepers are caused by programs that are uninstalled and orphan files and folders left behind. Also, anytime you move a file or folder that had a short cut linked to it it leaves an orphaned shortcut in the registry. Also, a lot of programs are written by "sloppy" programmers and have a lot of junk deposited around after the installation that never gets deleted.
I’d caution you to be careful with registry cleaners. Machines don’t think and software that is supposed to be written to think FOR machines usually think even less. A lot of times what these cleaners see as junk are in fact things like install.dat files that are needed to uninstall some programs. Once deleted you can’t uninstall the program the conventional way and usually do more damage to the registry trying to get rid of the program.
Just my two cents………
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