{"id":2896,"date":"2010-04-25T19:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T23:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=2896"},"modified":"2010-04-25T19:00:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T23:00:01","slug":"registry-cleaners-avoid-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2010\/04\/25\/registry-cleaners-avoid-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Registry Cleaners: Avoid Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect most readers here knew, or at least suspected it all along: most registry cleaners are, at best, useless.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5482701\/whats-the-registry-should-i-clean-it-and-whats-the-point\">Lifehacker<\/a> has a good piece on this, although it unfortunately begins by talking about how to edit the registry, which is really something I&#8217;m content with people not knowing. The people who have good reason to edit their registry know it well; I&#8217;ve never, ever heard of a non-technical user having reason to edit anything in the registry.<\/p>\n<p>In bullet points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li>Messing with the registry is dangerous stuff. So is &#8220;cleaning up&#8221; DLL files, which most registry cleaners somehow feel compelled to do, too.<\/li>\n    <li>Unless a particular entry in the registry is actively breaking something, deleting a handful of old registry entries isn&#8217;t going to help performance or disk space when there are hundreds of thousands of them.<\/li>\n    <li>Defragging the registry is silly, since the whole thing is stored in RAM.<\/li>\n    <li>No one has <em>ever<\/em> produced statistics showing that cleaning the registry has led to any appreciable increase in speed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I tend to think that registry cleaners are like colon cleanse products: aggressively marketed, pretty much snake oil, impressive-sounding without giving any hard statistics, and really freaking dangerous.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect most readers here knew, or at least suspected it all along: most registry cleaners are, at best, useless. Lifehacker has a good piece on this, although it unfortunately begins by talking about how to edit the registry, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2010\/04\/25\/registry-cleaners-avoid-them\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}