On the other hand, a clogged registry can slow performance and bring  
your system to a dead halt and I've seen recommendations to wipe and  
restall when it was found instead that registry recovery was all that  
was required yes, even on a fast pc.

On Mar 12, 2009, at 7:02 AM, Mike Pietruk wrote:

Chris

What makes you think that cleaning a registry, especially on a new pc,  
is
a good habit.  Having watched discussions and outcomes on many lists,  
and
testifying from personal experience, cleaning a registry should be done
with great care and sparingly.
Remove one entry that shouldn't have been touched can turn your pc  
into a
proverbial non-working machine.
My rule of thumb, which I have violated occasionally more often than not
with regret, is leave the regiswtry alone.  Today's pcs are inherently
fast so the tweeking with the idea of increasing boot up time is
meaningless.
Moreover, the amount of space registry entries take up on today's  
massive
hard drives isn't even mentioning.

Before using a registry cleaner, I would make certain that I have an  
image
of my harddrive that I could restore in the event something went awry.

By far, the best and most valuable habbit to develop is backing up  
things
-- freqently and thoroughly.  That is what will save you the most grief 
down the road and has saved my proverbial pc butt more often than I can
count on my fingers and toes.  External drives are great for this.







All the world's thrones are occupied by rulers under God's authority.
John Blanchard

Read more on this here:
http://thechristspot.blogspot.com/2009/03/turn-to-ancient-of-days-in-these.html


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