FYI:
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Stefan Baur <X2Go-ML-1@baur-itcs.de> wrote:
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Am 20.07.2015 um 14:31 schrieb James M. Pulver:
I'm not anyone with special insight, nor have I done a study, but in my personal experience, Registry cleaners like CCleaner have never hurt a Windows computer in any noticeable way. That said, I haven't seen them help noticeably either. To me, the concept is plausible, like defragmenting your disk - but on modern equipment, it rarely makes much difference in the vast majority of cases. And the only possible improvement might be a slight performance improvement - what Registry cleaners do doesn't fix specific issues as far as I can tell. For an almost obligatory automobile analogy, changing your transmission fluid(registry cleaner) is a different sort of thing than rebuilding your transmission(professional registry alterations to address very specific issues).
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Remember that CCleaner is a bunch of tools in one application.
There's the regular "Cleaner", as seen here: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9N3zmmn7mUw/Uqw4V11u2eI/AAAAAAAABfc/gLFAX0Um4qY/s1...
The regular "Cleaner" is not a registry cleaner.
The Registry cleaning is under the "Registry" tab. http://computeropschonen.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/screenshot-ccleaner....
Then there's the 6 other tools (newer versions added "Disk Analyzer" too): http://betanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ccleaner.jpg
Usually when someone says "I ran CCleaner", they ran the regular "Cleaner" and not the Registry Cleaner.
-Mike