I will preface that this whole post is basically OT: That FAQ entry is basically a longer assertion of truth with no actual explanation as to why what is asserted is true, nor any references to any authority or company I recognize as having particular Microsoft Windows OS level insight. I.e. Wikipedia would say that article [citation needed].
That said, the OP would clearly not be helped by a registry cleaner, this seems obvious precisely because of your point that X2Go was *installed* at the time the cleaner was run.
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).
-- James Pulver CLASSE Computer Group Cornell University
-----Original Message----- From: x2go-user-bounces@lists.x2go.org [mailto:x2go-user-bounces@lists.x2go.org] On Behalf Of Stefan Baur Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2015 4:30 PM To: Robert Dinse Cc: x2go-user@lists.x2go.org Subject: Re: [X2Go-User] where are settings stored on Windows
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Am 18.07.2015 um 22:25 schrieb Robert Dinse:
That isn't how CCleaner works. Also, I would strongly advise against using any registry cleaner, most of them are just making things worse.
I've used CCleaner on an old XP machine for years and it's never toasted X2Go or anything else unintentionally.
You are aware that registry cleaners promise to clean up registry entries left behind by uninstalled programs, and even if they would be 100% accurate in that, it would not have helped the original poster, *as he had X2GoClient (re)installed at the time he ran CCleaner*?
OT: For a short, but very comprehensive FAQ on registry cleaners and why you should not use them, visit http://decentsecurity.com/registry-cleaners/
Kind Regards, Stefan
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