Registry cleaners? Really?
While on surface it appears that registry cleaners help, in many cases they do
more harm. The few milliseconds gained from removing "dead" entries can more
than be offset by the inadvertant removal of entries needed. I've seen more than
a few Windows systems totally hosed because someone ran a registry cleaner on
it and allowed it to remove what it detected as "bad" entries. Sure, way back in
the Win9X days, cleaning the registry could boost startup time for Windows, but
current professional opinion is against the routine use of "snake-oil" remedies
such as registry cleaners by less-than-knowledgable users to "keep your system
running smoothly". Modern Windows systems do a good job of ignoring invalid
registry entries anyway.
