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I usually advise clients that the vast bulk of these tools are simply nothing more than snake-oil products. However many self-proclaimed experts on many support forums tend to get annoyed with me making such statements. I feel their annoyance may simply reflect the fact that many of these products may well support these same sites, which would be a conflict of interest. Regardless, I’ve never seen any substantial GOOD come from these tools.

After reading this article on MaximumPC, I felt that I would quote the relevent sections to indicate that they are simply products to make you part with your money and nothing more. Few if any offer any serious advantage to the average person, and even fewer advantages to the average machine. Frankly I’ve seen a fair amount of work from people who use these tools and break their systems, so I guess I can be happy for the work. I’m positive I don’t know anyone who has anything ‘positive’ to say about these tools. Registry bloat is a non-issue and no one needs to delete dead old entries UNLESS they are relevent to a malware infection. In which case ‘some’ of these tools can be handy in a malware cleaners toolbox, but only if they know what they are doing.

This article appeared in MaximumPC last fall. Link below

The Dog asked readers for their feedback regarding registry cleaners, and more specifically, RegCure,
which the Dog took a hard look at in the July issue. The upshot? The handful of readers who use strong>RegCure reported no serious issues with the application, but only one person felt that it actually improved system performance. While others thought that registry cleaners in general have nominal value as performance enhancers, some saw other reasons to use them.

Reader Eric Pullen says:

“From a software/device-driver testing perspective, CCleaner has done a pretty good job of removing remnants of keys left behind by subpar software and device driver uninstallers.

So CCleaner can act as a testing shortcut in certain cases, if you don’t have the time or feel the need to reload an entire clean OS image. CCleaner’s registry tool also works as a quick spyware checker. I had a case in which Windows Defender kept finding a malware program every so many days after deleting it, and I was able to track down the specific DLL file that was the culprit because CCleaner showed the orphan registry entry that remained after.

Windows Defender said it “removed” the threat. It was this registry entry that kept re-installing the malware from the suspect DLL file after a PC reboot.”

Original story found @ http://www.maximumpc.com/article/watchdog/registry_cleaning

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