Donald wrote:
>After doing a scan it reported that there were over 400 problems.
>I thought this was strange because I regularly run EasyCleaner and it seems
>to be doing a good job at keeping the registry free of any unwanted stuff.
>When I clicked on RegCure's "fix" button, it told me  I had to register it
>before it would actually do anything>>


Leave it alone. If it doesn't define the "problems", chances are they'll be 
unimportant like dead shortcuts or MRU lists or unused file associations. 
Waste of money.

Most registry cleaners don't achieve much, and I've never seen any 
discernable improvement in performance after using any. The difference they 
make, if any, is miniscule. It gives you a nice warm fuzzy feeling to know 
that you've cleaned out some of the dead wood, but in reality you've 
achieved virtually nothing.

With modern registries running well over 40 Mb in most cases--often much 
bigger---even the best registry cleaner might only eliminate no more than 
40Kb (and more likely closer to 4 Kb). That's about a 1000th improvement at 
best. However, there's no harm in running one occasionally, if only for the 
sake of your imagination.

More important is removing rubbish that uninstalled programs and hardware 
such as old printers leave behind. Registry cleaners generally won't touch 
these except in the most superficial way.

Much the better alternative, which really will result in keeping a computer 
up to scratch, is to maintain a regular system of registry backups and 
restorations, using free ERUNT. (see my website tutorials for a tutorial on 
this).

Don Penlington

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