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Open utterances-bot opened 8 months ago

utterances-bot commented 8 months ago

The TRUTH about Registry Cleaners

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Leowhyx commented 8 months ago

Great post

VinSad3 commented 8 months ago

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!

obfuscated-loop commented 7 months ago

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.