[X2Go-User] [OT] Registry Cleaners (was: where are settings stored on Windows)

[Robert Dinse]

      I've found them useful for things like removing keys drivers install,
particularly if I'm messing around with things like overclocking video cards.

      All that said, has anybody else noticed any general flakiness in either
X2Go or NX since the last set of nx-libs updates?  I'm getting, with both NX
and X2Go, situations where it connects then immediately disconnects.  I'll
connect back in, then it will be fine.

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On Mon, 20 Jul 2015, Stefan Baur wrote:

> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 23:07:50 +0200
> From: Stefan Baur <X2Go-ML-1 at baur-itcs.de>
> To: x2go-user at lists.x2go.org
> Subject: [X2Go-User] [OT] Registry Cleaners (was: where are settings stored on
>      Windows)
> 
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> Am 20.07.2015 um 14:31 schrieb James M. Pulver:
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>> 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).
>
> Well, sorry, your personal experience is just anecdotal experience and
> not considered a reliable source by Wikipedia standards, either. ;-)
> So here's a [citation needed] for you, too. ;-)
>
> I can say I've seen more than just one machine that some clueless user
> had issues with, tried to fix them by applying some more or less shady
> registry cleaner, and botching the machine even further, to the point
> that it wouldn't even boot into Windows anymore, BSOD'ing or getting
> stuck in the "Loading Windows" screen.
>
> That's because even the most well-meaning registry cleaners try to
> apply certain, well, let's call them "standard procedures".  They will
> work, or at least cause no further harm, on a standard machine - but
> if the user (or even some driver installation, say, for a FakeRAID
> controller or some special Intel chipset rather than the standard
> SATA/PATA driver) previously tweaked the registry in a way the tool
> doesn't expect, things are going south.
>
> And yes, I've seen that happen.  More than once.  Usually with people
> of the "clueless tinkerer" kind, that installed every
> performance-tuning tool and registry patch they could find in the
> computer magazine of their choice.
>
> Which may explain why you didn't encounter it - in your environment,
> machines are probably centrally managed and most users don't have the
> rights to mess with the registry or to install "performance tuning"
> tools, so if anybody ever uses a registry cleaner, it's someone from
> your IT staff with at least a little bit of a clue of what they're
> doing, and they're operating on a standardized Windows installation,
> not one that has been messed with over and over before.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Stefan
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