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I've always believed register cleaners to be little more than snake oil.
Even MS, decades ago, had its own registry cleaner, but it's long dead and buried.
I have zero trust in these apps. If I, as a developer, have my app shovel a crap-ton of entries in the registry, how does a registry cleaner understand the intent behind the data, and how does it decide whether it should be kept or deleted?
It has to boil down to so little data overall that can be safely removed that you'd be hard-pressed to measure any performance gain. And if that's the case, is it worth the risk?
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Thanks for the info. I finally decided...I will not use any registry cleaner at all!
The reason I considered one was because my two year old Win 10 SSD PC is noticeably slower now to boot up, even after cleaning up Startup apps and temporary files.
But it performs well so I can live with that!
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Well, if the registry sets up some app to auto-start, that would have a definite impact, but what you need then is something that identifies things that auto-start, not a registry cleaner. The registry is just one location for setting up auto-running apps.
SysInternals has AutoRuns, which is excellent for tracking these down. But, be careful about what you delete with it.
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Thanks for the info. Win 10 settings has a StartUp section which lists
all auto start apps and their relative impact. I don't see anything there that may cause a slow boot. I am not really concerned about it, just curious.
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Right...that thing...keep in mind that it's far from complete, and doesn't show what MS really doesn't want you to disable.
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UK To Send British Food To Moscow[^] as part of new sanctions announced by Parliament. EU deems the action to be 'inhumane and disproportionate.'
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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True enough! I had dinner at Churchill's Pub in Savannah, GA years ago, and was promised authentic British cooking. I ordered the roast beef, and played some darts with a couple of locals while it was prepared. I honestly tried to eat what was served, but it was disgusting. Only two things were fit for human consumption; the Yorkshire pudding, and the ale. Didn't the Geneva convention cover this sort of inhumane treatment?
Will Rogers never met me.
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What about the albatross? 
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The original plan was to send the Black Watch with their bagpipes. That was considered cruel and unusual even by the Scots. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Is that all the sanctions and such seem to draining the Internet of Russian troll farms.
The forums I haunt are back to being human.
Either that or it's a heck of a coincidence.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Going to war is less dangerous than trolling you and your friends?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Be careful, Daniel, or you might find out.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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On a pure technical view, I do not see how the sanctions could affect trolling - Russia still has internet, and the trolling is mostly done via VPN, so not necessarily easy to trace where it comes from to do a country-based ban.
What I could imagine is that the trolls have gotten new tasks in the last week that holds them away from their computers.
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I don't know. I'm just grateful for the relative calm, particularly since I moderate in some cases.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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When you don't get paid, you stop trolling.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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You guys are getting paid !?
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Some politicians who were "weak" a few weeks ago, have grown a spine; according to observers.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Oh man, I am not touching that. That's bait!
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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A politician is a man who is so thick-skinned that he can stand upright even if he has no spine.
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Click this link to find out what the trolls are doing now!
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Really, you need to click it now before they deplatform the poster!!
[feeling more at home now?]😊
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Outlook and Google to communicate with each other and share a damn address book.
Every time I add a contact, I have to enter the data to both, so my outlook contacts are up to date and I can email, and Google gets it as well so I can call via my phone.
(If my landline phone could also share the names and numbers that would help, but that's just pie in the sky. Just the computerised devices with internet access sharing would do.)
If it annoys me, just imaging how irritating it must be for less technical souls ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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If only we had some programmer nearby ...
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Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
modified 7-Mar-22 17:05pm.
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