"John Barnett MVP" <freelance@invalid.invalid> wrote in
news:A2EDC16C-3D4B-4E71-BA8B-59B56D517F5A@microsoft.com:

> The best advice that anyone can give you is this:
>
> If you are not competent enough to manually edit the registry, then
> leave well alone.
>
> In general registry repair software usually ends up causing more
> trouble than it 'apparently' cures. My advise is stay well clear of
> them.
>

Sometimes you need to though because some ****ware has caused an issue in
the registry. I use CrapCleaner as it has a very safe reg cleaner and I
need it to easily clean my system of left over temp files, cookies etc. on
occasion.