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Topic: Antivirus and the Registry |
Larry R
From:
Navasota, Tx.
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Posted 1 Jun 2008 6:37 pm |
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| My AV (BitDefender) has the capability to cleanup my pc's registry. Would I be making a mistake to use the BitDefender Registry tool? |
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Wiz Feinberg
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Mid-Michigan, USA
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Posted 1 Jun 2008 7:32 pm
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Make sure it offers to make a backup of all changes it makes, so you can restore items that it breaks. They all break something at one time or another, especially regarding orphaned file associations.
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Larry R
From:
Navasota, Tx.
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Posted 2 Jun 2008 4:32 pm
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I think I'll leave it alone.
Thanks Wiz |
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Ken Lang
From:
Simi Valley, Ca
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Posted 2 Jun 2008 7:06 pm
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| I use a registry edit program called Uniblue. I have not had any problems and it does ask if you want a backup copy. It works well in cleaning up the registry. |
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 3 Jun 2008 2:37 am
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There is a lot of discussion on Registry "cleaners" and many "techies" say that it really is not needed. If there is a registry entry that is causing actual problems that's different but in 99% of the cases what is in the registry has no affect on PC performance.
I've also fixed PC's that were "cleaned/repaired" with a Registry program.
A registry entry that is not being used is similar to a "rem" (remark) or "no op" (no operation) statment in a program - it does nothing when the program is executed. |
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