Is there "A Better Registry Cleaner Than CCleaner?" - Depends what exactly is meant by better. To the best of my knowledge I've only had two problems that were a direct result of using CCleaner. Like the OP, I've been a regular user of CCleaner Pro for many years. Stay away from all software that advertises registry optimization.
How one can imagine that you can trust some obscure software studio to do a better job than MS of optimizing the registry and uninstalling software is beyond me. Whatever steps can be taken to optimize said registry that are 100% reliable are already beeing taken by MS. People who download a ton of programs, then decide they don't like them and uninstall them, then later re-download it after an update are the kinds of people who are more prone to these kinds of issues.Ī registry and central unuinstalling of software is a paradign that's been around since W95. Have I encountered this sort of issue? Not personally, but I have seen it in client machines.
Getting rid of keys related to a program during the uninstall process (even if the built in uninstaller doesn't remove them), is what I would consider to be the correct path. This is why I recommend keeping it clear of leftover keys after an uninstall. But when one gets in the way of something, it can become a true nightmare to just figure out that the problem is in the registry. I still stand on my agreement earlier that unused registry keys are not usually harmful. I believe the term Correct Path, in this circumstance, is subjective. "i would take teh correct path, which is to deal with such things on a one to one basis." However, were i to encounter such issues, i would take teh correct path, which is to deal with such things on a one to one basis. Have you encounetred many such problems with installing newer versions of previously uninstalled software? I sure haven't. Not as bad as a "registry cleaner", but not that good either.
I recommend Revo Uninstaller because it doesn't function as a "Registry Cleaner" in the sense that it would scan the entire registry and be like "Oh hey this is useless, let's delete it." Instead, it's like "Oh hey, this may be a problem to future installations, let's remove it." But there are times that it will affect the installation of a newer version of an older program that's been uninstalled and the registry keys not removed after uninstallation.
I agree that having unused keys in the registry is not usually harmful to the computer in any way. Who told you that yop should be messing with teh registry? Not that CCleaner is bad, just that you shouldn't use that part of it. MS explicitly recommends against it, and for good reason. Do not, under any circumstance, ever use so called registry cleaning software.
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