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To: GuinnessGuy who wrote (88501)	4/28/2015 12:34:19 AM
From: Gottfried	Respond to of 110624

GG, we had a discussion about registry cleaners last year. I decided not to do this any more after learning MS says it's unnecessary windows.microsoft.com Until then I used Ace Utilities for years. It allows you to reverse a cleaning. There's a computer builder on iHub who recommended it and then decided not to use it any more. We had a poll here and 12 out of 29 never use a cleaner Message 29334732 CCleaner is popular, though. PS: I also stopped defragging [Win 8]. Not needed as win 8 defrags itself

To: GuinnessGuy who wrote (88501)	4/28/2015 1:39:32 AM
From: goldworldnet	3 Recommendations Recommended By Gottfried Judi Simpson Mario :-) Respond to of 110624

Something you could do is keep your old OS hard drive and start a new OS hard drive with a fresh install and have a dual boot option with your computer. This way you can have it both ways by trying to clean up your current drive and having a very fresh installation to boot up when you want that you can slowly restore your software applications to. Another recommendation is that you start gathering up the setup files and licence keys for your software in a convenient location. I use an external hard drive and a large capacity thumb-drive for this. You will find this very useful the next time you build a computer. Also something I do with my computers is that I start out with 2 hard drives for my operating system. I call one my virgin-drive and I call the other my working-drive. After the build, I clone my virgin-drive over to my working-drive and I only use my working-drive to surf the internet, evaluate software, and mess around. Only after evaluating software on my working-drive will I install new programs I like on my virgin-drive. When I make software additions to my virgin-drive, I also install all the windows updates and then clone the updated virgin over to my working-drive. This requires saving my bookmarks and personal files to an external backup drive to be loaded back onto my working drive later, but this keeps my virgin-drive very pristine and free of trash. In addition to this, I also have images of my virgin drives at various stages of development and have used this method building 3 computers with very good success. * * *

To: GuinnessGuy who wrote (88501)	4/28/2015 1:58:57 AM
From: B.K.Myers	1 Recommendation Recommended By goldworldnet Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110624

if anyone can recommend a non-destructive, competent registry cleaner, that would be great. I have used CCleaner many times and never had it cause a problem. It creates a backup of the registry entries before it deletes any registry entries. However it is very rare that cleaning the registry will result in any computer performance improvement. Removing unwanted/unnecessary software is a much more effective way to improve performance; especially programs that load automatically when you start Windows. Cleaner can enable/disable what runs on Windows start up. CCleaner can also help you remove the unwanted software, but Revo Uninstaller does a much better job of uninstalling and completely removing software. B.K.