reg cleaner deletes flashplayer

[Dave Seven]

David H. Lipman wrote:

> Use of Registry Cleaners is NOT recommended. They have the potential to do more harm then
> good and some are malware.


I use CrapCleaner to clean the registry and it has never caused me any
issues. It's a lightweight cleaner but that is all I need.

[Andy W.]

Dave Seven wrote:
> David H. Lipman wrote:
>
> > Use of Registry Cleaners is NOT recommended. They have the
> > potential to do more harm then good and some are malware.
>
>
> I use CrapCleaner to clean the registry and it has never caused me any
> issues. It's a lightweight cleaner but that is all I need.

I use RegVac (not freeware), it finds hundreds of useless entries, the only
problem I get is I have to re-associate Irfanview to view pictures.

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[VanguardLH]

Andy W. wrote:

> Dave Seven wrote:
>> David H. Lipman wrote:
>>
>>> Use of Registry Cleaners is NOT recommended. They have the
>>> potential to do more harm then good and some are malware.
>>
>>
>> I use CrapCleaner to clean the registry and it has never caused me any
>> issues. It's a lightweight cleaner but that is all I need.
>
> I use RegVac (not freeware), it finds hundreds of useless entries, the only
> problem I get is I have to re-associate Irfanview to view pictures.

So you have admitted that this commercialware registry cleaner ****s up
by removing filetype associations. If it can't figure out the
interdependency of a filetype association with an application then why
would it be any smarter regarding other interdependent registry keys?
That you've had only that problem simply means you haven't discovered
the other problems that it creates or you have a simple environment that
doesn't involve registry entries that the cleaner can't understand.

[Andy W.]

VanguardLH wrote:
> Andy W. wrote:
>
> > Dave Seven wrote:
> > > David H. Lipman wrote:
> > >
> > > > Use of Registry Cleaners is NOT recommended. They have the
> > > > potential to do more harm then good and some are malware.
> > >
> > >
> > > I use CrapCleaner to clean the registry and it has never caused
> > > me any issues. It's a lightweight cleaner but that is all I need.
> >
> > I use RegVac (not freeware), it finds hundreds of useless entries,
> > the only problem I get is I have to re-associate Irfanview to view
> > pictures.
>
> So you have admitted that this commercialware registry cleaner ****s
> up by removing filetype associations.

Only one, and the setting that does it has a warning and can be disabled. If
all other software products had just one bug it would be a much better
world.

>If it can't figure out the
> interdependency of a filetype association with an application then why
> would it be any smarter regarding other interdependent registry keys?

As I've already stated, it doesn't affect anything else, apart form making
my boot time quicker as it no longer tries to alter or look at things that
no longer exist.

> That you've had only that problem simply means you haven't discovered
> the other problems that it creates or you have a simple environment
> that doesn't involve registry entries that the cleaner can't
> understand.

No, I'm installing and uninstalling programs all the time, if I didn't clean
out my registry on a regular basis it would become bloated and possibly
unstable.


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[M.Balarama]

"Dave Seven" <notfor@email.invalid> wrote in message
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> David H. Lipman wrote:
>
>> Use of Registry Cleaners is NOT recommended. They have the potential to
>> do more harm then good and some are malware.
>
>
> I use CrapCleaner to clean the registry and it has never caused me any
> issues. It's a lightweight cleaner but that is all I need.

Thanks I have this program and used the Reg cleaner..worked great and my
flashplayer is still working...thanks