The bottom line is WHY are you cleaning the Registry? The system can typically read through the entire Registry in under a minute, but that is not how software reads, writes to the Registry. In some cases on a computer with detailed auditing enabled it can show errors that were not there prior to the cleaning, but again these are typically things that would be nearly impossible to know after the fact what caused it. How it can sometimes manifest itself is with an application simply not behaving as it used to, a program feature that no longer launches. Normally the damage done is rarely seen or even attributed to the cleaning. In most cases regardless of which Registry Cleaning tool you use it's not going to outright break Windows from booting or running. Miekiemoes' Blog Registry Cleaners and System Tweaking Tools Microsoft support policy for the use of registry cleaning utilitiesĪn often posted and quoted article (Ed no longer hosts the site but did mention again on Twitter), Ed Bott's Why I don't use registry cleaners.Issues caused by these utilities may not be repairable and lost data may not be recoverable' 'Microsoft cannot guarantee that problems resulting from the use of a registry cleaning utility can be solved.

Registry cleaners are not supported by Microsoft Thanks for the update on Avast use any Registry Cleaner eitherĪ few recommended articles to read on registry cleaners:

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