[X2Go-User] where are settings stored on Windows

[James M. Pulver]

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).

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James Pulver
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Cornell University


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From: x2go-user-bounces at lists.x2go.org [mailto:x2go-user-bounces at lists.x2go.org] On Behalf Of Stefan Baur
Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2015 4:30 PM
To: Robert Dinse
Cc: x2go-user at 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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