This page contains especially various important articles, explanations, information and similar about the computing-related stuff. Similar to other pages the "personal" ones (things that I've discovered), and others that I found browsing the web and reading articles written by others. Though note, for the non-personal ones, they will at least contain modified the text, i.e., text that I wrote in my own words (however, the general point remains the same), and not just copied and pasted it.



REGISTRY-CLEANING SOFTWARE MYTH EXPOSED


As far as registry "cleaning" programs being useless (and things that they do to your registry), I must say that I've always thought that this is not the case. The thing is that lots of programs leave various "left-overs" (useless values) after uninstalling them. My opinion was that is somehow clever to remove them, sooner or later. They are just taking additional space (and each additional bit that causes bigger registry means more time for system to find a particular entry/value), making the registry operations slower. Yes it is true - slower for 0.0000001 times, but it is slower anyway, and having left-overs from 20 or more uninstalled programs ...

Well and then I was told on ArsTechnica forum (especially thanks goes to user DriverGuru) that registry cleaning is rather useless ... Yes, it surely might save some disk-space, but this is so small amount. And as the most important thing: as opposed to what various sites offering these products says - the impact of so-called "registry cleaning" on any aspect of computer's performance is only minor (or better - there isn't any impact), mainly because the registry queries, reads and writes are not linear-oriented. But especially removing unused/orphaned entires will not prevent operating-system crashes and such. Heck, on some sites they even say that "cleaning" the registry will even prevent BSODs), well this is simply a big bull-shit.

See various registry-cleaning related threads, first see the Registry cleaner thread on Winforums (my nick is satyr): http://forums.winforums.org/showthread.php?p=33859, then a Suggestions For a Good Registry Cleaner thread on Wilderssecurity forums (my nick is stalker): http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?p=260057 and finally threads posted on ArsTechnica forum (my nick is shirker), and a special hint - look for the DriverGuru's posts, He really knows what he is talking about. First one is removing unused registry entries? thread: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=397004907631 and as second Keeping the registry tidy - How DO you do it ?! thread: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=12009443&m=464007507631&r=123002707631

Of course you don't need special/additional software for that, one can simply delete them with Regedit, but it is much more comfortably this way. But if you just *must* use any of these "registry cleaning" programs, see the first two threads above for programs used to do the job. One very good and powerful is called Registry First Aid (or shortly - Reg 1 Aid), from KsL Software and Published by RoseCitySoftware. I rather call this app a registry-editor (in a way), than registry cleanup application. The best is that doesn't "clean" registry automatically, but simply scans registry for orphaned invalid/orphaned data, and after that it then scans hard-disk for possible solutions, and offers the best one. You still need to decide by yourself. Sadly it is a SHAREWARE program, but anyway you get Registry First Aid here: http://www.RoseCitySoftware.com/Reg1Aid

It offers this options after completed scan:

"Fix entry" (to the value that you choose manually)
"Leave entry without change"
"Delete entry"
"Cut Invalid Substring" (for more complicated values, for instance values with more than one path)

There is also another one that is pretty widely used. It is a FREEWARE program, called RegCleaner, or shortened to RegCleanr because of Microsoft's similar (or same, I forgot) name for some in-built application on 9x systems. It was developed by/under Macecraft Software (Macecraft Inc.), their main site is: http://www.jv16.org
, while you get RegCleaner here: http://www.worldstart.com/weekly-download/archives/reg-cleaner4.3.htm

Registry First Aid application is without any doubt crucial for me, as devoted user of "non-setup" applications, and devoted explorer of finding the optimal folder-structures, therefore moving things around a lot. For example hen I move some "non-setup" program (or program "group", like Players or Internet apps), it would be such a waste of time changing their paths in registry manually, or deleting them in few cases, i.e., in cases of application which do not overwrite an entry-value on next first execution, like ATM - Another Task Manager on my Win98, or old versions of Soulseek p2p client, etc. But there are other cases also. For example when I changed my Program Files folder to just Programs, all the paths of various MS's software dlls, executables, data/config files, etc. were suddenly wrong (and therefor Outlook not working, etc.), and well, it was a matter of few clicks to fix them all in one pass. I rather not think about how it would look like, if I would try to fix them all manually. And yeah - it is the word "cleanup" that is somehow wrong in my opinion for this kind of program, I would rather say that it is a "registry maintaining" or "registry fixing" program , but only for the software capable of such operations.

This page contains especially various important articles, explanations, information and similar about the computing-related stuff. Similar to other pages the "personal" ones (things that I've discovered), and others that I found browsing the web and reading articles written by others. Though note, for the non-personal ones, they will at least contain modified the text, i.e., text that I wrote in my own words (however, the general point remains the same), and not just copied and pasted it.



REGISTRY-CLEANING SOFTWARE MYTH EXPOSED


As far as registry "cleaning" programs being useless (and things that they do to your registry), I must say that I've always thought that this is not the case. The thing is that lots of programs leave various "left-overs" (useless values) after uninstalling them. My opinion was that is somehow clever to remove them, sooner or later. They are just taking additional space (and each additional bit that causes bigger registry means more time for system to find a particular entry/value), making the registry operations slower. Yes it is true - slower for 0.0000001 times, but it is slower anyway, and having left-overs from 20 or more uninstalled programs ...

Well and then I was told on ArsTechnica forum (especially thanks goes to user DriverGuru) that registry cleaning is rather useless ... Yes, it surely might save some disk-space, but this is so small amount. And as the most important thing: as opposed to what various sites offering these products says - the impact of so-called "registry cleaning" on any aspect of computer's performance is only minor (or better - there isn't any impact), mainly because the registry queries, reads and writes are not linear-oriented. But especially removing unused/orphaned entires will not prevent operating-system crashes and such. Heck, on some sites they even say that "cleaning" the registry will even prevent BSODs), well this is simply a big bull-shit.

See various registry-cleaning related threads, first see the Registry cleaner thread on Winforums (my nick is satyr): http://forums.winforums.org/showthread.php?p=33859, then a Suggestions For a Good Registry Cleaner thread on Wilderssecurity forums (my nick is stalker): http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?p=260057 and finally threads posted on ArsTechnica forum (my nick is shirker), and a special hint - look for the DriverGuru's posts, He really knows what he is talking about. First one is removing unused registry entries? thread: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=397004907631 and as second Keeping the registry tidy - How DO you do it ?! thread: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=12009443&m=464007507631&r=123002707631

Of course you don't need special/additional software for that, one can simply delete them with Regedit, but it is much more comfortably this way. But if you just *must* use any of these "registry cleaning" programs, see the first two threads above for programs used to do the job. One very good and powerful is called Registry First Aid (or shortly - Reg 1 Aid), from KsL Software and Published by RoseCitySoftware. I rather call this app a registry-editor (in a way), than registry cleanup application. The best is that doesn't "clean" registry automatically, but simply scans registry for orphaned invalid/orphaned data, and after that it then scans hard-disk for possible solutions, and offers the best one. You still need to decide by yourself. Sadly it is a SHAREWARE program, but anyway you get Registry First Aid here: http://www.RoseCitySoftware.com/Reg1Aid

It offers this options after completed scan:

"Fix entry" (to the value that you choose manually)
"Leave entry without change"
"Delete entry"
"Cut Invalid Substring" (for more complicated values, for instance values with more than one path)

There is also another one that is pretty widely used. It is a FREEWARE program, called RegCleaner, or shortened to RegCleanr because of Microsoft's similar (or same, I forgot) name for some in-built application on 9x systems. It was developed by/under Macecraft Software (Macecraft Inc.), their main site is: http://www.jv16.org
, while you get RegCleaner here: http://www.worldstart.com/weekly-download/archives/reg-cleaner4.3.htm

Registry First Aid application is without any doubt crucial for me, as devoted user of "non-setup" applications, and devoted explorer of finding the optimal folder-structures, therefore moving things around a lot. For example hen I move some "non-setup" program (or program "group", like Players or Internet apps), it would be such a waste of time changing their paths in registry manually, or deleting them in few cases, i.e., in cases of application which do not overwrite an entry-value on next first execution, like ATM - Another Task Manager on my Win98, or old versions of Soulseek p2p client, etc. But there are other cases also. For example when I changed my Program Files folder to just Programs, all the paths of various MS's software dlls, executables, data/config files, etc. were suddenly wrong (and therefor Outlook not working, etc.), and well, it was a matter of few clicks to fix them all in one pass. I rather not think about how it would look like, if I would try to fix them all manually. And yeah - it is the word "cleanup" that is somehow wrong in my opinion for this kind of program, I would rather say that it is a "registry maintaining" or "registry fixing" program , but only for the software capable of such operations.

This page contains especially various important articles, explanations, information and similar about the computing-related stuff. Similar to other pages the "personal" ones (things that I've discovered), and others that I found browsing the web and reading articles written by others. Though note, for the non-personal ones, they will at least contain modified the text, i.e., text that I wrote in my own words (however, the general point remains the same), and not just copied and pasted it.



REGISTRY-CLEANING SOFTWARE MYTH EXPOSED


As far as registry "cleaning" programs being useless (and things that they do to your registry), I must say that I've always thought that this is not the case. The thing is that lots of programs leave various "left-overs" (useless values) after uninstalling them. My opinion was that is somehow clever to remove them, sooner or later. They are just taking additional space (and each additional bit that causes bigger registry means more time for system to find a particular entry/value), making the registry operations slower. Yes it is true - slower for 0.0000001 times, but it is slower anyway, and having left-overs from 20 or more uninstalled programs ...

Well and then I was told on ArsTechnica forum (especially thanks goes to user DriverGuru) that registry cleaning is rather useless ... Yes, it surely might save some disk-space, but this is so small amount. And as the most important thing: as opposed to what various sites offering these products says - the impact of so-called "registry cleaning" on any aspect of computer's performance is only minor (or better - there isn't any impact), mainly because the registry queries, reads and writes are not linear-oriented. But especially removing unused/orphaned entires will not prevent operating-system crashes and such. Heck, on some sites they even say that "cleaning" the registry will even prevent BSODs), well this is simply a big bull-shit.

See various registry-cleaning related threads, first see the Registry cleaner thread on Winforums (my nick is satyr): http://forums.winforums.org/showthread.php?p=33859, then a Suggestions For a Good Registry Cleaner thread on Wilderssecurity forums (my nick is stalker): http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?p=260057 and finally threads posted on ArsTechnica forum (my nick is shirker), and a special hint - look for the DriverGuru's posts, He really knows what he is talking about. First one is removing unused registry entries? thread: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=397004907631 and as second Keeping the registry tidy - How DO you do it ?! thread: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=12009443&m=464007507631&r=123002707631

Of course you don't need special/additional software for that, one can simply delete them with Regedit, but it is much more comfortably this way. But if you just *must* use any of these "registry cleaning" programs, see the first two threads above for programs used to do the job. One very good and powerful is called Registry First Aid (or shortly - Reg 1 Aid), from KsL Software and Published by RoseCitySoftware. I rather call this app a registry-editor (in a way), than registry cleanup application. The best is that doesn't "clean" registry automatically, but simply scans registry for orphaned invalid/orphaned data, and after that it then scans hard-disk for possible solutions, and offers the best one. You still need to decide by yourself. Sadly it is a SHAREWARE program, but anyway you get Registry First Aid here: http://www.RoseCitySoftware.com/Reg1Aid

It offers this options after completed scan:

"Fix entry" (to the value that you choose manually)
"Leave entry without change"
"Delete entry"
"Cut Invalid Substring" (for more complicated values, for instance values with more than one path)

There is also another one that is pretty widely used. It is a FREEWARE program, called RegCleaner, or shortened to RegCleanr because of Microsoft's similar (or same, I forgot) name for some in-built application on 9x systems. It was developed by/under Macecraft Software (Macecraft Inc.), their main site is: http://www.jv16.org
, while you get RegCleaner here: http://www.worldstart.com/weekly-download/archives/reg-cleaner4.3.htm

Registry First Aid application is without any doubt crucial for me, as devoted user of "non-setup" applications, and devoted explorer of finding the optimal folder-structures, therefore moving things around a lot. For example hen I move some "non-setup" program (or program "group", like Players or Internet apps), it would be such a waste of time changing their paths in registry manually, or deleting them in few cases, i.e., in cases of application which do not overwrite an entry-value on next first execution, like ATM - Another Task Manager on my Win98, or old versions of Soulseek p2p client, etc. But there are other cases also. For example when I changed my Program Files folder to just Programs, all the paths of various MS's software dlls, executables, data/config files, etc. were suddenly wrong (and therefor Outlook not working, etc.), and well, it was a matter of few clicks to fix them all in one pass. I rather not think about how it would look like, if I would try to fix them all manually. And yeah - it is the word "cleanup" that is somehow wrong in my opinion for this kind of program, I would rather say that it is a "registry maintaining" or "registry fixing" program , but only for the software capable of such operations.

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