M.Balarama

My registry cleaner keeps deleting my shockwave flashplayer..I cannot add
the necessary lines of my registry to be over looked-not deleted.- excluded
I use regcleanerXP.
I would change to another cleaner that allows me add the registry lines to
be excluded and not deleted.
anyone know what to do..or know of a good cleaner
thanks
Michael

David H. Lipman

From: "M.Balarama" <mbalar@sbcglobal.net>

| My registry cleaner keeps deleting my shockwave flashplayer..I cannot add
| the necessary lines of my registry to be over looked-not deleted.- excluded
| I use regcleanerXP.
| I would change to another cleaner that allows me add the registry lines to
| be excluded and not deleted.
| anyone know what to do..or know of a good cleaner
| thanks
| Michael


Please don't Multi-Post.
Please learn to Cross-Post to pertinent, On Topic, news groups instead.

Use of Registry Cleaners is NOT recommended. They have the potential to do more harm then
good and some are malware.

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Dave Seven

David H. Lipman wrote:

> Use of Registry Cleaners is NOT recommended. They have the potential to do more harm then
> good and some are malware.


I use CrapCleaner to clean the registry and it has never caused me any
issues. It's a lightweight cleaner but that is all I need.

Andy W.

Dave Seven wrote:
> David H. Lipman wrote:
>
> > Use of Registry Cleaners is NOT recommended. They have the
> > potential to do more harm then good and some are malware.
>
>
> I use CrapCleaner to clean the registry and it has never caused me any
> issues. It's a lightweight cleaner but that is all I need.

I use RegVac (not freeware), it finds hundreds of useless entries, the only
problem I get is I have to re-associate Irfanview to view pictures.

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VanguardLH

Andy W. wrote:

> Dave Seven wrote:
>> David H. Lipman wrote:
>>
>>> Use of Registry Cleaners is NOT recommended. They have the
>>> potential to do more harm then good and some are malware.
>>
>>
>> I use CrapCleaner to clean the registry and it has never caused me any
>> issues. It's a lightweight cleaner but that is all I need.
>
> I use RegVac (not freeware), it finds hundreds of useless entries, the only
> problem I get is I have to re-associate Irfanview to view pictures.

So you have admitted that this commercialware registry cleaner fucks up
by removing filetype associations. If it can't figure out the
interdependency of a filetype association with an application then why
would it be any smarter regarding other interdependent registry keys?
That you've had only that problem simply means you haven't discovered
the other problems that it creates or you have a simple environment that
doesn't involve registry entries that the cleaner can't understand.

VanguardLH

M.Balarama wrote:

> My registry cleaner keeps deleting my shockwave flashplayer..I cannot add
> the necessary lines of my registry to be over looked-not deleted.- excluded
> I use regcleanerXP.
> I would change to another cleaner that allows me add the registry lines to
> be excluded and not deleted.
> anyone know what to do..or know of a good cleaner
> thanks
> Michael

Explain how YOUR deliberate use of a registry cleaner in anyway relates
to the topic of this newsgroup - which is SPYWARE.

And knock off the multiposting.
And post on-topic.

M.Balarama

"Dave Seven" <notfor@email.invalid> wrote in message
news:9igRj.98267$rd2.49879@pd7urf3no...
> David H. Lipman wrote:
>
>> Use of Registry Cleaners is NOT recommended. They have the potential to
>> do more harm then good and some are malware.
>
>
> I use CrapCleaner to clean the registry and it has never caused me any
> issues. It's a lightweight cleaner but that is all I need.

Thanks I have this program and used the Reg cleaner..worked great and my
flashplayer is still working...thanks

Andy W.

VanguardLH wrote:
> M.Balarama wrote:
>
> > My registry cleaner keeps deleting my shockwave flashplayer..I
> > cannot add the necessary lines of my registry to be over looked-not
> > deleted.- excluded I use regcleanerXP.
> > I would change to another cleaner that allows me add the registry
> > lines to be excluded and not deleted.
> > anyone know what to do..or know of a good cleaner
> > thanks
> > Michael
>
> Explain how YOUR deliberate use of a registry cleaner in anyway
> relates to the topic of this newsgroup - which is SPYWARE.
>

alt.PRIVACY.spyware, removing useless registry items can lead to better
privacy and stop spyware finding out what you did have on your system.


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Andy W.

VanguardLH wrote:
> Andy W. wrote:
>
> > Dave Seven wrote:
> > > David H. Lipman wrote:
> > >
> > > > Use of Registry Cleaners is NOT recommended. They have the
> > > > potential to do more harm then good and some are malware.
> > >
> > >
> > > I use CrapCleaner to clean the registry and it has never caused
> > > me any issues. It's a lightweight cleaner but that is all I need.
> >
> > I use RegVac (not freeware), it finds hundreds of useless entries,
> > the only problem I get is I have to re-associate Irfanview to view
> > pictures.
>
> So you have admitted that this commercialware registry cleaner fucks
> up by removing filetype associations.

Only one, and the setting that does it has a warning and can be disabled. If
all other software products had just one bug it would be a much better
world.

>If it can't figure out the
> interdependency of a filetype association with an application then why
> would it be any smarter regarding other interdependent registry keys?

As I've already stated, it doesn't affect anything else, apart form making
my boot time quicker as it no longer tries to alter or look at things that
no longer exist.

> That you've had only that problem simply means you haven't discovered
> the other problems that it creates or you have a simple environment
> that doesn't involve registry entries that the cleaner can't
> understand.

No, I'm installing and uninstalling programs all the time, if I didn't clean
out my registry on a regular basis it would become bloated and possibly
unstable.


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Dave Seven

Andy W. wrote:

> alt.PRIVACY.spyware, removing useless registry items can lead to better
> privacy and stop spyware finding out what you did have on your system.
>
>

Better privacy for sure. And is why I use a reg cleaner and not because
I think it will make my PC run like snot.