In the hands of people who don't know what they are doing, registry cleaners
do more harm than good. It's all very well having a smaller registry, which
might save a few seconds when you open Windows, but if the required entries
are scrubbed along the way, then the applications may not work properly and
in a worst case Windows will not start.

Some of these applications also remove 'redundant' dlls! Disaster in the
hands of the unwary

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



wrote:
If some people want or need such thorough cleaning that their settings
have to be sacrificed in the process, I'm glad CCleaner provides this
capability for them. But it isn't a behavior the user has any reason
to expect. There must be a mechanism to bring the behavior to the
user's attention before the effect is felt. One obvious way would be
to turn Office cleaning OFF by default and pop-up a warning when the
user checks Office. At this point, the CCleaner developer's
irresponsible marketing of the product has destroyed the confidence
in a product I need to allow it access to my registry, and I have
deleted CCleaner.