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href="http://chris.pirillo.com">Chris Pirillo</a></p><p>People ask me all of the time if registry cleaning software is safe to use, and which one I would recommend. The truth of the matter is &#8211; I don&#8217;t recommend using any of them! I <a
href="http://chris.pirillo.com/registry-cleaner-software/">did a video about this last year</a>, with the help of some very knowledgeable people.</p><p>As most of you know, my assistant <a
href="https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=E0A47E3E-DD43-4FCC-89DE-CC24141CAD80">Kat </a> is considered an expert in the field of Malware removal and Windows Security in general. In fact, she has been awarded the prestigious <a
href="http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpexecsum">Microsoft MVP award</a> four years in a row now. She&#8217;s been removing malware on huge sites like <a
href="http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/forums.html">GeeksToGo</a> for more than six years, and is a site administrator there. She also teaches malware removal in its free training program.</p><p>Over the years, Kat has helped literally thousands of people online to clean and fix up their computers. It&#8217;s something she has a lot of passion for, and is very good at. She answers questions like this every day, and recently posted a blog on Geeks about this very question. The information she posted is gleaned from her own experience with users, as well as many of the other experts she works with. I asked her permission to copy it here, so that more of you might be able to read her advice, and even add to the discussion.</p><blockquote><p> Programs like CCleaner can be very dangerous to your computer. <strong>NO</strong> registry &#8220;cleaner&#8221; is completely safe. There is also no hard evidence that &#8220;cleaning&#8221; out the registry has any effect on the overall speed of a machine. It will speed up searches within the registry itself &#8211; but has no effect on overall performance.</p><p>There are a few misunderstandings about the registry. People seem to think that &#8220;cleaning&#8221; the registry will make it smaller and easier to manage. Unfortunately, it doesn&#8217;t work that way. What you are doing is creating mini gaps in the registry&#8217;s file. These gaps will be reused by new data that inserts itself into your registry. The end result is that the registry becomes fragmented. Searching the data in a fragmented file is way slower than it is within an optimized file. In short &#8211; the only way to speed up the handling of the registry is by completely rewriting the file(s)&#8230; and even that is marginal at best.</p><p>Registry cleaning will not improve your system speed. Even though there are a lot of orphaned keys and/or values present, you won&#8217;t notice a difference in your system speed. The only difference you&#8217;ll notice is when actually searching your registry. Do you even ever DO that? I know I don&#8217;t.</p><p>To be quite frank, if you &#8220;clean&#8221; your registry often enough, it will become fragmented. That <strong>WILL</strong> result in slower system performance&#8230; quite the opposite of what you were trying to accomplish in the first place. I think I&#8217;d rather have orphaned keys in my registry, instead of deleting something by a so-called &#8220;cleaner&#8221; that should have never been touched.</p><p>That&#8217;s the problem with programs like these. The will miss entries that are &#8220;bad,&#8221; and mark good entries for removal. I&#8217;ve seen it happen hundreds of times over the years. A novice or &#8220;normal&#8221; computer user hoses their system completely, simply by deleting everything a program such as CCleaner told them to.</p><p>If you must do something with your registry, do it manually. If you don&#8217;t know how &#8211; leave it alone! You honestly never &#8220;NEED&#8221; to do anything in there. If you have a case of malware that attacks your registry, I urge you to seek help from someone trained to know how to properly remove it. Also, even if you consider yourself to be an expert on the registry&#8230; I beg you to take a few extra minutes to make a backup before you begin. I promise you&#8217;ll thank me later.</p><p>Last, I know there will be people who argue with me. There will be those who swear up and down that CCleaner is a wonderful program. They&#8217;ve never had a problem with it! Maybe you&#8217;re a tech who uses it in your line of work. Good for you! I&#8217;m glad you&#8217;ve never had a problem &#8211; <strong>YET</strong>. Even when you know exactly what you&#8217;re doing, programs like this still occasionally can and will completely hose a system. I sincerely hope it never happens to you.</p><p><em>credit to Sari and Bobbi_Flekman for some of the wording of this writing.</em></p></blockquote><p>Kat makes excellent points in the above writing. I hope everyone will take the time to ponder what she&#8217;s written, and even add your own thoughts to the mix. If you&#8217;re using something like CCleaner to clean out your temporary files &#8211; <strong>STOP IT NOW</strong>. There are some excellent free alternatives that are much safer for your machine &#8211; such as <a
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href="http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/TFC-Temp-File-Cleaner-OldTimer-file187.html">TFC</a>. Both are very safe, and very effective.<ul
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href="https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=E0A47E3E-DD43-4FCC-89DE-CC24141CAD80">Kat </a> is considered an expert in the field of Malware removal and Windows Security in general. In fact, she has been awarded the prestigious <a
href="http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpexecsum">Microsoft MVP award</a> four years in a row now. She&#8217;s been removing malware on huge sites like <a
href="http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/forums.html">GeeksToGo</a> for more than six years, and is a site administrator there. She also teaches malware removal in its free training program.</p><p>Over the years, Kat has helped literally thousands of people online to clean and fix up their computers. It&#8217;s something she has a lot of passion for, and is very good at. She answers questions like this every day, and recently posted a blog on Geeks about this very question. The information she posted is gleaned from her own experience with users, as well as many of the other experts she works with. I asked her permission to copy it here, so that more of you might be able to read her advice, and even add to the discussion.</p><blockquote><p> Programs like CCleaner can be very dangerous to your computer. <strong>NO</strong> registry &#8220;cleaner&#8221; is completely safe. There is also no hard evidence that &#8220;cleaning&#8221; out the registry has any effect on the overall speed of a machine. It will speed up searches within the registry itself &#8211; but has no effect on overall performance.</p><p>There are a few misunderstandings about the registry. People seem to think that &#8220;cleaning&#8221; the registry will make it smaller and easier to manage. Unfortunately, it doesn&#8217;t work that way. What you are doing is creating mini gaps in the registry&#8217;s file. These gaps will be reused by new data that inserts itself into your registry. The end result is that the registry becomes fragmented. Searching the data in a fragmented file is way slower than it is within an optimized file. In short &#8211; the only way to speed up the handling of the registry is by completely rewriting the file(s)&#8230; and even that is marginal at best.</p><p>Registry cleaning will not improve your system speed. Even though there are a lot of orphaned keys and/or values present, you won&#8217;t notice a difference in your system speed. The only difference you&#8217;ll notice is when actually searching your registry. Do you even ever DO that? I know I don&#8217;t.</p><p>To be quite frank, if you &#8220;clean&#8221; your registry often enough, it will become fragmented. That <strong>WILL</strong> result in slower system performance&#8230; quite the opposite of what you were trying to accomplish in the first place. I think I&#8217;d rather have orphaned keys in my registry, instead of deleting something by a so-called &#8220;cleaner&#8221; that should have never been touched.</p><p>That&#8217;s the problem with programs like these. The will miss entries that are &#8220;bad,&#8221; and mark good entries for removal. I&#8217;ve seen it happen hundreds of times over the years. A novice or &#8220;normal&#8221; computer user hoses their system completely, simply by deleting everything a program such as CCleaner told them to.</p><p>If you must do something with your registry, do it manually. If you don&#8217;t know how &#8211; leave it alone! You honestly never &#8220;NEED&#8221; to do anything in there. If you have a case of malware that attacks your registry, I urge you to seek help from someone trained to know how to properly remove it. Also, even if you consider yourself to be an expert on the registry&#8230; I beg you to take a few extra minutes to make a backup before you begin. I promise you&#8217;ll thank me later.</p><p>Last, I know there will be people who argue with me. There will be those who swear up and down that CCleaner is a wonderful program. They&#8217;ve never had a problem with it! Maybe you&#8217;re a tech who uses it in your line of work. Good for you! I&#8217;m glad you&#8217;ve never had a problem &#8211; <strong>YET</strong>. Even when you know exactly what you&#8217;re doing, programs like this still occasionally can and will completely hose a system. I sincerely hope it never happens to you.</p><p><em>credit to Sari and Bobbi_Flekman for some of the wording of this writing.</em></p></blockquote><p>Kat makes excellent points in the above writing. I hope everyone will take the time to ponder what she&#8217;s written, and even add your own thoughts to the mix. If you&#8217;re using something like CCleaner to clean out your temporary files &#8211; <strong>STOP IT NOW</strong>. There are some excellent free alternatives that are much safer for your machine &#8211; such as <a
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href="http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/TFC-Temp-File-Cleaner-OldTimer-file187.html">TFC</a>. Both are very safe, and very effective.<ul
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isPermaLink="false">http://chris.pirillo.com/2008/02/29/registry-cleaner-software/</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p><a
href="http://chris.pirillo.com/registry-cleaner-software/">Registry Cleaner Software</a> is a post from <a
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href="itms://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=73330048">Add to iTunes</a> | <a
href="http://youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=lockergnome">Add to YouTube</a> | <a
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href="http://feeds.pirillo.com/ChrisPirillo">RSS Feed</a></p><p>I know many of you out there feel that registry cleaners will help speed up your computer. The truth of the matter is that they will NOT. In fact&#8230; using one can end up rendering your system useless if you don&#8217;t use it properly. I don&#8217;t recommend using them&#8230; EVER.</p><p>Programs like CCleaner are very powerful. If you run one on a brand-new computer, with a completely clean Windows install&#8230; they will still show &#8220;bad&#8221; registry entries, and try to remove them. To a non power-user who doesn&#8217;t know everything that <strong>should</strong> be in the registry&#8230; that can spell disaster. Remove the wrong key(s), and you could quickly kill your entire computer.</p><p>IF you feel you have to clean your registry, make a backup. ALWAYS take the time to export the registry, and back that sucker up. Also&#8230; why not educate yourself on the registry? Learn what is there, and why. Then, remove any bad keys manually. You&#8217;ll be much safer in the long run.</p><p><ul><li
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src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ngcskwp-0a4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="325" height="264"></embed></object></p><p><a
href="itms://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=73330048">Add to iTunes</a> | <a
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href="http://feeds.pirillo.com/ChrisPirillo">RSS Feed</a></p><p>I know many of you out there feel that registry cleaners will help speed up your computer. The truth of the matter is that they will NOT. In fact&#8230; using one can end up rendering your system useless if you don&#8217;t use it properly. I don&#8217;t recommend using them&#8230; EVER.</p><p>Programs like CCleaner are very powerful. If you run one on a brand-new computer, with a completely clean Windows install&#8230; they will still show &#8220;bad&#8221; registry entries, and try to remove them. To a non power-user who doesn&#8217;t know everything that <strong>should</strong> be in the registry&#8230; that can spell disaster. Remove the wrong key(s), and you could quickly kill your entire computer.</p><p>IF you feel you have to clean your registry, make a backup. ALWAYS take the time to export the registry, and back that sucker up. Also&#8230; why not educate yourself on the registry? Learn what is there, and why. Then, remove any bad keys manually. You&#8217;ll be much safer in the long run.</p><p><ul><li
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