Re: Registry clean-up software?

Ben Myers wrote:

Micro$oft would have to approve its own software, which would never happen. A
nice idea, but the fox in the chicken coop never works out.

While you're at it, how about all of the garbage files left behind by most major
products including (surprise!) Micro$oft Office and Internet Explorer. DId you
ever look in the %temp% folder and see all the files in there? Windows 'Disk
Cleanup" barely scrapes the surface of files which can be safely removed.

And, while we're at it, how about the many gigabytes of space taken up by
restore points. Do we have to keep ALL of them? The only choice with Windows
"Disk Cleanup" is to remove all of them, not to remove them selectively. I
recently refurbed a Dell Optiplex GX240 for a client, starting with XP SP2, then
applying all the updates from the Windows Update site. I added a few other
items which were right for the hardware and software like AV software and
Acrobat Reader. When I was done, the mess took up 11GB of space. Then I
removed all the restore points, did a MANUAL file cleanup, and a complete disk
cleanup on the rest. The result? Only 6GB hard drive space occupied. And I
won't even get into the number of times I had to reboot the system after a
applying an update.

If this is perceived as an anti-Microsoft tirade, that is an incorrect
perception. It's just the facts, ma'm... Ben Myers

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It makes you wonder what "Windows Approved" actually means.

Notan
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