Delete registry using ccleaner?

antioch wrote:
> "lonely_2006" <lonely2006.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
> in message
> news:C866D10D-9B9E-4703-926D-1D0DD40325B1@microsoft.com...
> > HI. Is it safe to delete registry using ccleaner?
> >
>
> If you are computer technically challenged as myself, then
> do NOT touch your registry, unless you get a step-by-step
> guide from within a group. I have made two changes to my
> Registry and each time I did
> it with help, here in the groups.
> Both have caused no problems for me.
> If you want a programme to do the work for you, it is my
> opinion from other threads, that these programmes are not
> 100% safe to use or reliable. Again, if you do not know what
> you are doing in Registry,
> then don't use a programme either.
> I did once, a couple of years ago and I immediately
> regretted it. Rgds
> Antioch

What program did you use, and what did it cause to go wrong?

Pop

"POP" <nobody.RemoveThis@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message
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> antioch wrote:
>> "lonely_2006" <lonely2006.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
>> in message
>> news:C866D10D-9B9E-4703-926D-1D0DD40325B1@microsoft.com...
>> > HI. Is it safe to delete registry using ccleaner?
>> >
>>
>> If you are computer technically challenged as myself, then
>> do NOT touch your registry, unless you get a step-by-step
>> guide from within a group. I have made two changes to my Registry and
>> each time I did
>> it with help, here in the groups.
>> Both have caused no problems for me.
>> If you want a programme to do the work for you, it is my
>> opinion from other threads, that these programmes are not
>> 100% safe to use or reliable. Again, if you do not know what you are
>> doing in Registry,
>> then don't use a programme either.
>> I did once, a couple of years ago and I immediately
>> regretted it. Rgds
>> Antioch
>
> What program did you use, and what did it cause to go wrong?
>
> Pop
>

I think it was (I do not like to comment on products in open forum like some
do) R.M. - I used it on a Win 2000 system at that time. Thinking back it
was more like three years or more. It was the result of an article in a
computer magazine that I had read.
To be honest, I didn't know what I was doing, and I had removed a Win98 and
installed the Win2000.
I don't think I had cleared the 98 properly and there was all sorts of
conflict as I remember it.
I had to call in a local comp-man to get it sorted.
I had not heard about newsgroups in those days, or forums.
I have heard that most of these cleaners have improved over the years, but I
don't feel confident enough to use one just for the sake of using it.
If/when they become idiot proof, then I might
Rgds
Antioch