Defragmenting the Registry is worth doing. As for registry cleaner's they
are, to be honest, a waste of space. After I replied to your post yesterday
I downloaded Wise registry cleaner, and Auslogic.

A quick test produced the following:

Auslogic could claim back 11% of my registry by defragmenting it: Ok that
was fine I allowed it to do that. Having said that I didn't detect any
increase in startup speed.

CCleaner. This I already use, but have never used the registry cleaner. On
using the registry cleaner it flagged 4 errors. All 4 errors were MRU (most
recently used) website URL's. I knew what they were so allowed CCleaner to
remove them.

Wise Registry Cleaner. I ran this and I flagged well over 100 errors. At
least 50 of these it wasn't sure whether it could remove them safely or not.
The remaining 50 it said could be deleted but as most of the entries were
CLID's (which basically include a long string of numbers) without me
actually noting the CLID and then manually checking the registry I wasn't
prepared to let Wise registry cleaner remove them.

That was a simple, quick, test, nothing scientific. But why did Wise
registry cleaner flag so many registry problems compared to CCleaner? The
chances are that Wise registry cleaner hit so many 'false positives' that
removing them 'may' have caused more problems or me than leaving them. And
why did Wise registry cleaner advise me that 50% of the flagged errors
needed further consideration before 'I' took the decision to remove them. If
the registry cleaner was any good it should make the decision for me not, as
has happened here, start dithering!

While I agree 'it would make life easier' there is still an element of doubt
and, personally, I feel that that element of doubt isn't worth taking.

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"Coderedpl" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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> Well I wouldn't say I'm not confident in doing it myself, but it would
> definitely make my life easier.
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