Should I still use one of those registry cleaner programs or is that what Disk Defrag is for?

2 thoughts on “Should I still use one of those registry cleaner programs or is that what Disk Defrag is for?”

1. Sandy G says:

   May 7, 2011 at 5:37 am

   No and no.

   Registry cleaners are not safe. If you get a specific problem with an error message, research and fix it. Otherwise don’t go messing with things that probably aren’t there.

2. Colinc says:

   May 7, 2011 at 5:37 am

   Defrag is NOT for registry fixing, saving disk space, or removing infections. Since any Microsoft OS will always try to save a file in the first available space, without checking that space first. When it gets the big surprise, not enough space, it simply records the section it just saved in the file system database and puts the next part in the next available space, probably still too small. If the file later gets edited, the last part of it may well end up on the front of the disk. Your drive heads now need a sat nav to map where all the bits are, and will spend a large percentage of their time looking up the individual locations in stead of moving, then be required to travel the equivalent of round the world to find all the bits. This tends to reduce read and write speeds dramatically. Defragmenting is picking up all these bits of any file, moving them all to the end of the drive and putting them together. Then as the front of the drive becomes empty, moving them all to the front in continuous lumps. Heads now only have minimal amounts of searching to do to access any file. For registry cleaning use ccleaner.exe, it is fairly gentle, as it removes any unlinked entries and stops. Then you repeat the scan and entries which pointed to the removed links are found. Generally 3 to 5 scans will clear anything. But it does not risk leaving a missing group of required entries. It also offers to save the registry before repairing, I always save the first scan’s backup just in case. You do not need to save the rest. And its’ tools section can sometimes see programs that don’t show in the control panel, useful for uninstalling the stubborn bad download. and then has the facility to remove left-over entries which actually do not still have the program installed.

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