OK, so is it safe to use a registry cleaner? Or, are they a no-no? Thank you.
Note: This question comes from our forums , and the response below is used with permission of the forum member ( Bill Castner - MS MVP ).
Mark Russinovich (Author of the “Bible”, Windows Internals , co-founder of Winternals and Sysinternals, and since both companies were bought by Microsoft, now a senior Microsoft employee) was asked:
Hi Mark, do you really think that Registry junk left by uninstalled programs could severely slow down the computer? I would like to ‘hear’ your opinion.
His reply fairly captures my own view (quoting Mark Russinovich):
No, even if the registry was massively bloated there would be little impact on the performance of anything other than exhaustive searches (ed. of the registry itself).
On Win2K Terminal Server systems, however, there is a limit on the total amount of Registry data that can be loaded and s...
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There is no need to go low-level. Take a look at System.Environment.GetFolderPath and System.Environment.SpecialFolder
That way you will not lose compatibility with Mac OS X (the function also returns values that make sense on OSX) and you don’t have to worry about the details of grokking the registry.
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