Registry cleaning, is it real?
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Registry cleaning, is it real?
12-09-2009 12:21 PM
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Seen lots of ads for registry cleaners, don't particularly believe the hype and back when everyone was being told to run MS regclean I read that some systems were damaged and that regclean was a developer tool not intended for wider use?
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12-09-2009 8:04 PM
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12-09-2009 10:16 PM
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Re: Registry cleaning, is it real?
13-09-2009 10:52 AM
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My only concern is that given a registry entry that appears to contain no data it seems to progressively strip away one level at a time each time its used. Assuming that an empty container serves no purpose this is probably fine.
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13-09-2009 12:55 PM
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13-09-2009 5:29 PM
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Of course you can do all these tweaks and cleanings etc yourself if your a dab hand at it,I most certainly am not,heres a link to there site if your interested http://www1.uniblue.com/products/campaigns/ppc/ub/google/uk/?s_kwcid=uniblue|
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13-09-2009 10:59 PM
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you will find you need to do a few cleans before it picks every thing up
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14-09-2009 9:35 AM
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14-09-2009 9:56 AM
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14-09-2009 10:13 AM
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Quote from: mal0z What do the IT professionals here recommend - what do they do to the hundreds of company PC's ?
Personally...nothing until it breaks.
I only manage 25 client PCs but don't have the time to go round them all doing a 'spring clean'.
To argue with someone who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead - Thomas Paine
Re: Registry cleaning, is it real?
14-09-2009 10:27 AM
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If it helped click the thumb
If it fixed it click 'This fixed my problem'
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14-09-2009 10:37 AM
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Quote from: mal0z What do the IT professionals here recommend - what do they do to the hundreds of company PC's ?
Same as Adiewoo and Stat. I only look after three sites and around 55 PC's but the average user (99.9%) is locked out from doing most things like adding programs, access to Control Panel etc. A spring clean is usually done when I have to sit in front of a given PC for something that cannot be done remotely or there is a Major change in application software. CCleaner is certainly part of the Toolbox.
Superusers are not staff, but they do have a direct line of communication into the business in order to raise issues, concerns and feedback from the community.
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14-09-2009 1:07 PM
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14-09-2009 1:58 PM
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The users cannot do anything to their machine to fill it with junk in the same way that many of us do with our home machines (myself included), so the requirement for cleaning is pretty minimal (plus PC specs these days are often significantly higher than users actually need, so they don't notice real performance issues like they may have with older kit)
Mine gets a dust down with CCleaner every now and then, and CCleaner also accompanies me to many machines if I have cause to actually sit in front of one of them.
Generally I prefer to conform to type and do everything remotely though - if nothing else it freaks out the users that you have so much control, even from a distance.
Re: Registry cleaning, is it real?
14-09-2009 2:46 PM
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yes of course when I had laptops in large companies - the machine was indeed tied down quite a lot, and no installing programs allowed etc. and updates remotely downloaded across the network.
But what they also did - was to have a Standard PC image with Windows, MS Office plus a few other programs, removed things like all the games and similar things etc - and if a PC had any problems - the user data was backed up, the hard disc wiped and a fresh image installed - but I suspect this only applicable to the larger companies ? .
I have recently installed CCleaner - and it certainly seemed to speed things up - especially after I did a defrag after cleaning with CCleaner.
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