According to microsoft and others there is no safe way to clean registry, so why do we get told buy this or that registry cleaner. I have used one for some number of years but now being told by microsoft not to do it.Will my computer not slow down if I do not keep cleaning registry, it comes up with high thret and med and low I was pretty sure it made a difference.Can anybody give me a clear information. Yes I know windows has a utility but it will not remove anything.Thanks in avance. 1 person needs an answerI do too

On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:59:39 +0000, Skywriter 2000 wrote: > According to microsoft and others there is no safe way to clean registry, so why do we get told buy this or that registry cleaner. I have used one for some number of years And not had a problem as a result? You've been very fortunate. > but now being told by microsoft not to do it.> > Will my computer not slow down if I do not keep cleaning registry, No it will not. > it comes up with high thret and med and low > > I was pretty sure it made a difference.> > Can anybody give me a clear information. Yes I know windows has a utility but it will not remove anything.> > Thanks in avance. Registry cleaning programs are *all* snake oil. Cleaning of theregistry isn't needed and is dangerous. Leave the registry alone anddon't use any registry cleaner. Despite what many people think, andwhat vendors of registry cleaning software try to convince you of,having unused registry entries doesn't really hurt you. The risk of a serious problem caused by a registry cleaner erroneouslyremoving an entry you need is far greater than any potential benefitit may have. Read http://www.edbott.com/weblog/archives/000643.html and http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=28099 and alsohttp://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2005/10/02/registry-junk-a-windows-fact-of-life.aspx Let me point out that neither I nor anyone else who warns against theuse of registry cleaners has ever said that they always causeproblems. If they always caused problems, they would disappear fromthe market almost immediately. Many people have used a registrycleaner and never had a problem with it. Rather, the problem with a registry cleaner is that it carries with itthe substantial *risk* of having a problem. And since there is nobenefit to using a registry cleaner, running that risk is a very badbargain. Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP