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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon ChrisTitusTech

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Open utterances-bot opened this issue 11 months ago • 3 comments

The TRUTH about Registry Cleaners

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https://christitus.com/registry-cleaner/

utterances-bot avatar Mar 12 '24 10:03 utterances-bot

Great post

Leowhyx avatar Mar 12 '24 10:03 Leowhyx

Excellent advice! Another example: RevoUninstaller. I actually love this program, but recently used it to remove Apple's QuickTime, and after RevoUninstaller "cleaned up the leftovers in the registry", the sound no longer worked. Thank you Chris for the reminder!

VinSad3 avatar Mar 24 '24 08:03 VinSad3

The reason they still exist is because the vast majority of registry entries are used for fingerprinting. Of course uninstallers will still 'market' them as a cleaning operation, but real open source uninstallers like BCUninstaller know why these entries should be removed.

obfuscated-loop avatar Mar 29 '24 14:03 obfuscated-loop