Hi, occam.

Very interesting read. But did you note that it is dated 10/2/05 - a full
year before Vista RTM? And you left out the best part: the later comment
there by Mark, on 10/7/05,, which closed with:

"I haven't and never will implement a Registry cleaner since it's of little
practical use on anything other than Win2K terminal servers and developing
one that's both safe and effective requires a huge amount of
application-specific knowledge. "

Sometimes it helps our argument to leave out The Rest of The Story, doesn't
it? :^{

RC
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"occam" <occam@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
news:O4a#vtU#JHA.3340@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> Mike Hall - MVP wrote:
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>>
>> I have endeavored to search for anything good about registry cleaners,
>> and have yet to locate any other than the sales blurb put out by the
>> authors of said utilities..
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>
> Mike
>
> Here is what Mark Russinovich has to say about it. Whatever you think of
> Mark (sys internals fame) he is NOT a "sales blurb author"
>
> [url]http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2005/10/02/registry-junk-a-windows-fact-of-life.aspx[/url]
>
> Summary
> "Registry cleaners have always been popular, but I never paid much
> attention to them. I originally thought that there might be valid reasons
> for their existence, but over time changed my mind, only to recently
> recognize that even today they can help maintain Registry hygiene."[/color]