Hi Terry.
Not sure what you're asking so let me just say that we rarely, (if ever), recommend registry cleaners and/or 'Optimisers' in these forums. We know that many of the, (less respectable), ones often falsely report massive errors in the Windows registry in an attempt to scare users into purchasing their products. These utilities rarely work as advertised and more often than not cause more problems than before.
In inexperienced hands registry cleaners and optimisers can be dangerous. Experienced users rarely need such utilities.
The Windows registry is best left alone. It is only a glorified database and any unneeded entries are just ignored, and have no effect on performance.
I hope that helps.
Mark
I see from today's e-mail that tech-news has a `special promotion' - somewhat akin to the `liquidation sales' of some stores. It's a product that's been around for some time, for the same price [free], and is absolutely worth every cent.
Some time ago I was looking for registry cleaners. One that caught my attention - for all the wrong reasons - was uniblue/liutilities registry scan. Google links under many names led to a host of differently named sites all looking strangely similar.
They all offered the liutilities `free' scan, which reported hundreds of registry errors, warned me of the dire consequences, and offered to clean them with the paid version.
They also had a driver scanner which did pretty much the same.
The system was a new install of XP, with the latest updates, and the latest drivers for the hardware.
To me, if it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, I'll expect eggs!
I have regarded Cnet and it's reviews with great respect for many years - but this one is making me wonder...
YMMV
Terry.

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