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I tried nortons WinDoctor to help fix any problems with missing
shortcuts,missing shared files, etc etc and my pc wouldnt startup the next
time! It used to work really well with XP and never did XP not start after
WinDoctor,it only speeded the pc up,in my experience.Im reluctant to "try"
any other registry fixing software,unless there are some well known Vista
registry fixing software that someone can recommend in here ???
Thanks very much for help,in advance
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I don't use registry cleaners and don't recommend their use except for
certain narrow needs that are fairly unique such as virus cleanup, etc.
They often cause incidental damages to systems that are otherwise fine, like
the damage done to your system.
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There's no such thing as a "good" registry "cleaner" for any
Windows OS. About the best that can be said for any of them is that
they don't always render the computer unusable each time you use one.
Why do you think you'd ever need to "fix" your registry? What
specific *problems* are you actually experiencing (not some program's
bogus listing of imaginary problems) that you think can be fixed by
using a registry "cleaner?"
If you do have a problem that is rooted in the registry, it would
be far better to simply edit (after backing up, of course) only the
specific key(s) and/or value(s) that are causing the problem. After
all, why use a chainsaw when a scalpel will do the job? Additionally,
the manually changing of one or two registry entries is far less likely
to have the dire consequences of allowing an automated product to make
multiple changes simultaneously. The only thing needed to safely clean
your registry is knowledge and Regedit.exe.
The registry contains all of the operating system's "knowledge" of
the computer's hardware devices, installed software, the location of the
device drivers, and the computer's configuration. A misstep in the
registry can have severe consequences. One should not even turning
loose a poorly understood automated "cleaner," unless he is fully
confident that he knows *exactly* what is going to happen as a result of
each and every change.
Having repeatedly seen the results of inexperienced people using
automated registry "cleaners," I can only advise all but the most
experienced computer technicians (and/or hobbyists) to avoid them all.
Experience has shown me that such tools simply are not safe in the hands
of the inexperienced user. If you lack the knowledge and experience to
maintain your registry by yourself, then you also lack the knowledge and
experience to safely configure and use any automated registry cleaner,
no matter how safe they claim to be.
More importantly, no one has ever demonstrated that the use of an
automated registry "cleaner," particularly by an untrained,
inexperienced computer user, does any real good, whatsoever. There's
certainly been no empirical evidence offered to demonstrate that the use
of such products to "clean" WinXP's registry improves a computer's
performance or stability. Given the potential for harm, it's just not
worth the risk.
Granted, most registry "cleaners" won't cause problems each and
every time they're used, but the potential for harm is always there.
And, since no registry "cleaner" has ever been demonstrated to do any
good (think of them like treating the flu with chicken soup - there's no
real medicinal value, but it sometimes provides a warming placebo
effect), I always tell people that the risks far out-weigh the
non-existent benefits.
I will concede that a good registry *scanning* tool, in the hands
of an experienced and knowledgeable technician or hobbyist can be a
useful time-saving diagnostic tool, as long as it's not allowed to make
any changes automatically. But I really don't think that there are any
registry "cleaners" that are truly safe for the general public to use.
Experience has proven just the opposite: such tools simply are not safe
in the hands of the inexperienced user.
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Bruce Chambers
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| | | | | Post in reply to: james
I agree with Richard and Bruce. Hard drive space used to be at a premium
back in the Win9x days and editiing and compressing the registry became
popular simply to save space. Now the registry takes up an insignifcant
percentage of a hard drive and little is gained picking at it.
Vista is not a descendent of Win9x. The issues and solutions are not the
same. The risks of a corrupted registry, however, are still the same.
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| | | | | Well,iv been using the nortons Windoctor for years,and it has always speeded
up my pc.It has never stopped XP from working properly and my pc has always
restarted,except this time with Vista.
Almost everytime i have installed programs on my pc [i dont check it after
every single program has been installed] but if i install the programs that
i need and always install on my pc,i find that my pc is much slower,until
after i have used the Nortons WinDoctor,which seems to show that files are
changed when new programs are installed and when programs are UNinstalled,as
files seem to go missing etc.And after sfc /scannow, my pc is running much
faster.
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