paul's e-scrapbookRegCleanr.exeBy Paul QuekThe badly written (although still useful) Microsoft Windows "operating system"
(OS) suffers from "registry creep" -- that is, the so-called "registry", after
some length of time, contains lots of entries that are (like ALL politicians)
uninvited, unrequired, unwanted, and useless ... in a word, obsolete ... There are several "registry editors" and "registry cleaners" utilities available on the Net, but unless you know what you are doing, you are likely to screw up the sensitive registry system in Windows, such that the OS itself becomes even more unstable than it already is. (Notwithstanding its ubiquity, Windows is after all the most un-robust OS around, and can easily be "crashed" in at least 10 different ways by any self-respecting "hacker", not to mention the unsociable and criminally-minded "cracker" -- make sure you are not as ignorant as those so-called "journalists" who can't even distinguished a hack from a crack, what fools!) ... Anyway, the most useful, free and simplest registry-cleaning utility (and it is possibly the smallest @ 470-Kbytes -- given its clean UI or user interface, especially the "visual" and "interaction-control" components; never mind, it's a "UI thingy"!) that I have tried for cleaning up the stupid Windows registry is a piece of old software called RegCleanr.exe, which I got from a website maintained by someone somewhere in the old USSR ... I don't know where the website is now, it appears to have disappeared along with the USSR (!), such is the "dynamism" of the Net ... Back to RegCleanr.exe ... No installation required ... just place it in your favorite folder, click on it to execute it, then click on the "Registry Cleanup" button on the bottom left-hand corner of the display/screen. Once all the useless entries in the Windows registry have been located by RegCleanr.exe, select "All" from the Select menu at the top menubar, then click on the "Remove selected" button on the bottom right-hand corner of the display/screen. When done, click on the "Done" button on the bottom left-hand corner of the display/screen. (By now, you should be appreciating that all these actions you are forced to do just goes to show that perhaps the utility writer had some warped sense of humor, placing the buttons where he or she did; must be some sort of Russian humor). Anyway, you can view the entire set of useless registry entries if you select the "Backups" menu item on the top menubar, and even remove those entries PERMANENTLY if you go through the "Select All" menu and "Remove selected" button actions a second time. I used RegCleanr.exe a few times a day, especially if I have been opening and closing document files (which most people do, anyway), AND ESPECIALLY if you have been installing and/or uninstalling software as frequently as I do (most of these software I downloaded from the Net). By the way, if all of the above sounds a bit daunting (I can't imagine why!), go use the newer "TweakNow RegCleaner Standard" version of the TweakNow registry-cleaning utility, whose main file is also "RegCleanr.exe" -- you can visit the TweakNow.com website, and download the "Standard" version that comes with a "Non-commercial License" that "grants the End User to install the Software Product in non-commercial evirontment" (sic). Mine was an old "version 1.3.2", but the latest version is always available at the TweakNow website ... click here. Ok, have fun playing with the stupid "registry"! Cheerio! (And don't let my rants about Microsoft's Windows, politicians, journalists, and Russian humor, affect you too much! Hey! Windows is still a useful albeit unstable piece of shit! Come to think of it -- so are politicians, journalists and Russian humor!!!) [One last note: anyone as BRAIN-DEAD as the politicians and journalists and Microsoft software writers, can do the rest of us a TREMENDOUS AND HUMONGOUS favor by jumping into the nearest pond, reservoir, lake or sea -- or some suitable tall building would do just as well. Really!] Chiao! |