[kyle101]

Some excellent tips all on one page to make your pc load faster, use fewer resources and improve efficiency. My fps in games has increased, overall boot time reduced and application performance increased. Contains some useful direct links to recommended software.

Found it at digg.com

http://digg.com/software/26_Windows_XP_Speed_Tweaks

The direct link is

http://www.pccallouts.co.uk/freexpspeedtweaks.html

[Blackmirror]

8. Cleaning the Windows Registry

The Windows registry contains important application data and which grows alot as more software is installed. However, software uninstalled, orphaned registry entries and other settings usually remain. Reducing the size of the registry makes Windows faster.
I dont agree with that one

[JohnWill]

I have to agree with BM on the registry cleaning!

Don't fix stuff that ain't broke!©

[Blackmirror]

Originally Posted by JohnWill

Don't fix stuff that ain't broke!©

I love it when you say that John

[Blackmirror]

20. Remove junk files with Crap Cleaner

Dont agree with that one either

One of the most quick and effective ways to remove alot of junk files is to run Crap Cleaner on your system.

Download and install Crap Cleaner 2.04 (2.6mb).

Select the 'Run Cleaner' button for 'Cleaner' tab.

Select the 'Scan for Issues' button and for 'Registry' tab.

Now Select the 'Fix selected issues' button and for 'Registry' tab.



Kiss your pc goodbye

[aarhus2004]

Originally Posted by Blackmirror

20. Remove junk files with Crap Cleaner

Dont agree with that one either

One of the most quick and effective ways to remove alot of junk files is to run Crap Cleaner on your system.

Download and install Crap Cleaner 2.04 (2.6mb).

Select the 'Run Cleaner' button for 'Cleaner' tab.

Select the 'Scan for Issues' button and for 'Registry' tab.

Now Select the 'Fix selected issues' button and for 'Registry' tab.



Kiss your pc goodbye

Hello,

I thought of PMing you, BM, but decided against it. Why? Because I hope many others might benefit from a response here.

I am convinced that your responses to posts on a technical level leave much to be desired. I'll go further since I have personal experience of seeking help (and receiving it from you). Help which I ultimately found can best be described as flippant, even foolish. For example see here.

In your response above clearly demonstrated is a carelessness which, all too often, disgraces your writing and thinking.

You make no attempt to differentiate between your comment and quoted comment. And your summation of the outcome resulting from using CCleaner Registry clean "Kiss your pc goodbye" is dramatic, in error and therefore misleading to the TSG membership. This a freeware I have seen recommended by some of our most knowlegable members who work in the security and other fields of technical-help response.

You have the edit function and I suggest you use it. And in the case to which I link above please notice my response to your apparent offer of help - an offer which I now see was flippant and one to which you had no intention of returning.

What say you, Blackmirror?

aarhus2004.

[jbm1991]

Originally Posted by aarhus2004

Hello,

I thought of PMing you, BM, but decided against it. Why? Because I hope many others might benefit from a response here.

I am convinced that your responses to posts on a technical level leave much to be desired. I'll go further since I have personal experience of seeking help (and receiving it from you). Help which I ultimately found can best be described as flippant, even foolish. For example see here.

In your response above clearly demonstrated is a carelessness which, all too often, disgraces your writing and thinking.

You make no attempt to differentiate between your comment and quoted comment. And your summation of the outcome resulting from using CCleaner Registry clean "Kiss your pc goodbye" is dramatic, in error and therefore misleading to the TSG membership. This a freeware I have seen recommended by some of our most knowlegable members who work in the security and other fields of technical-help response.

You have the edit function and I suggest you use it. And in the case to which I link above please notice my response to your apparent offer of help - an offer which I now see was flippant and one to which you had no intention of returning.

What say you, Blackmirror?

aarhus2004.

never mind what she says aarhus, i'll chip in my 2 pennys worth now. i have seen BM offer good and constructive help on many an occasion, and was certainly not flippant. she has a point as messing around with registry etc does in general cause more damage than its worth, and as for you quoting her post in that link. would you care to post the thread it came from as that is a perfectly valid response to many problems. also, how the hell is cleaning out internet temporary files foolish? you also cannot complain about her comments on crap cleaner and other such programs as it is down to personal preference more than anything.

What say you, aarhus2004?

[Stoner]

Hi Ben.

IMO......all registry cleaners have the potential to do damage.
I've used reg cleaners in the distant past and had my L&H voice recognition broken ....and so badly that undoing the action still left L&H broken with a reinstall of L&H not fixing the problem.
That required re-imaging the drive.

My sister used CCleaner registry cleaner and experienced the same on her work laptop, but with more than one of her scientific applications.
That also required reinstalling her saved drive image.

CCleaner file cleaner is good and I use it often......but the reg cleaner app is just too dangerous to use, imo and my experience with other cleaners.

[Blackmirror]

Im so sorry . have i upset you ?
That was not my intention

I can remove my posts if you so wish but it will not change the fact that CCleaner does more harm than good ..
Now if i injected a little humour at the same time please forgive me .

I offer my help here freely . and if you have a problem with any of my posts kindly use the pm feature..or the big red triangle

what more can i say ?

[Rich-M]

aarhus2004,
Your comments are a bit personal and out of place on a public forum, and while you allude to BM help being ineffective from a technical level, and I think as an Admin of another forum she posts on quite frequently, as well as what I have observed here, I find your opinion offensive and unfounded.
Now as for reg cleaners I agree 100% that use of a reg cleaner is totally unnecessary as there is nothing to clean frankly in your registry and while it can do no good at all, it can cause a great deal of harm.
I personally have "hosed" quite a few systems running "Ccleaner" and find it destructive software with no real positive purpose. Why, because most people have a minimum 150 gb hard drive today on which they probably use 8 gb with XP or 25 gb with Vista and have absolutely no need to clean anything off it as space is totally unimportant to them, yet the possible damage by using a "freebie" program for which there is no hope to hold the developer responsible for "trashing" their system as it is a valueless and more importantly no retail priced product. When you use free products, not only do you trust your system to a possibly unsupported program with little updating because of lack of funding, but also no developer responsibility for problems the program might cause.

[emoric]

Pardon me, but I use CCleaner's registry cleaner weekly. No problems so far. Maybe I should just pull my feet out of the water before I fall all the way in. :/

Honestly, no problems! I've been using it for about 1 and a half.

[JohnWill]

The vast majority of people that use CCleaner experience no significant issues. However, there are many examples of folks not so lucky, and in extreme cases it will render the machine unbootable. I've seen it screw up applications like Microsoft Office and Visual Studio. As I understand, some of those issue have been resolved in recent versions.

The basic premise of "cleaning" the registry just to be "tidy" is a bad idea.

Don't fix stuff that ain't broke!©

[valis]

IMO, anything that cleanses the registry and isn't trained to do so is a danger to the pc. If you personally do not know how to navigate through the hives and clean up after yourself, do NOT let an automated app do it, as they frequently cannot delineate between what is necessary, what is not necessary, and where the most damage is incurred, what is shared.

If you want to 'fix' your registry, the best freeware app I can recommend is ntregopt, and all that does is compress the registry; it does not touch any keys. If you want to go around manipulating keys, it's best that you learn how to do so yourself and then do it manually.

Very, very rarely have I had to manipulate my registry on my home rig; maybe once a year, if that. However, doing malware removal I'll frequently need to manipulate it to remove/rename/replace a certain key that has been adjusted by a bad app; in these instances, I've seen many cases (well over 2 dozen) where CCleaner had rendered the computer completely inoperable, requiring a repair install/re-install of the OS.

A good little app to have laying around is ATF for All Temp Files; it does pretty much the same thing that CCleaner does, except it doeesn't go anywhere near the registry.

hth,

v

[valis]

also, to reiterate what John said, the idea of the registry needing cleaning is a bit outdated; the only time it needs manipulating is when something has incurred a failure that will affect higher up applications, and that is frequently malware.

As the registry is the bottom level of a fairly tall house of cards (windows) you want to be rather careful as to what card you move around, or the entire shebang will come down around your ears.

I've got a 98 box that serves as a server in my house, and I think I've been in the registry 3 times since I bought it, back in 98. The registry just doesn't need that sort of maintenance.

[Rich-M]

Actually if you are such a "neatnik" I can recommend "Advanced Disk Cleaner" which is strictly a hard drive cleaner and does not screw with the registry...I have never had issues with this one though as I said, it isn't something I even believe is in anyway necessary to use.
http://www.innovative-sol.com/cleaner/