"Bruce Chambers" wrote:
> LarCrow wrote:
> > I just used a program called PC mover to transfer all of my system settings,
> > application programs and data from my XP machine to my new Vista machine. It
> > all appeared to go pretty well. However when I ran Easy Cleaner (version
> > 2.0.6.380) on the new machine I was surprised to find 1100 illegal registry
> > entries. I checked my old machine and at the time of transfer I had only 3
> > entries I hadn’t cleaned out. I've never seen anything like that in all my
> > many uses of Easy Cleaner and while I normally assume EC is correct and
> > deltete all the entries in this case I think something else has happened and
> > need some guidance as to how to proceed.
>
>
> Once you've irretrievably damaged the registry by using a snake oil
> registry "cleaner," and if you cannot restore the registry from the
> backup you made before running the "cleaner," your next step is to try a
> repair installation. If that doesn't help, format the hard drive and
> start over.
>
>
>
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> Bruce Chambers
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I appriciate the responses but am surprised at the attitude taken about
registry cleaners. Now I'm just an old duffer who relies a quite a bit on
adice from the "experts". For several years I have subscribed to the
Langalist newsletter written by someone who seems to be pretty knowledgable
and who writes in a way that I can often understand. His conistent advice
ofver the yeas has been to to use a registry cleaner and specifically one
called Easy Cleaner. I have used it and probably have cleaned out 1000s of
lines of supposedly worthless entrie sin the register data that accumulated.
But this time was different, I was now using Vista and the quantitty is
huge. I guess I'm surprised that none of you think it's wise , or worthwhile
to keep the registry clean.
One of you ak what is it I want to do? I'd really want to delte all those
entries and move on, but I'm concerned that somewhere in this PCMove software
process that what might appear to be errouneous or illegal entries are in
fact good stuff. I n retrospect I should have made sure that Easy Cleaner
has been validated with Vista but I am currently trying to determine that. I
guess I was hoping that one of you might have had an experiene like it.
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