


Running Wise Registry Cleaner Pro may break stuff. One example would be software that did not remove all its old registry keys/entries when updated/upgraded, and that stuff that's left behind *may* cause problems with the way that software, or a later version of that software works. Running Wise Registry Cleaner Pro *may* fix stuff. Some people report a noticeable difference running Wise Registry Cleaner Pro - others do not, but in fairness the difference may have been there, but just not big enough for them to notice. If you have a current disk/partition image backup that you can easily restore, what you're risking is the time it takes you to restore that backup. Yes there is a risk, but there's a risk installing & running any app. regardless whatever theories or opinions, the real question is will running Wise Registry Cleaner Pro help or not? And since the registry in most every installation of Windows is different, they only way to really answer that is to give it a try. There's also a bit of over thinking IMHO. To make things more difficult, the registry is not a single file, but several files spread between the Windows & user folder - there's even a part of the registry that's normally hidden in an app like Regedit, storing Canonical data etc., that can break things like Windows Update.Īnd in essence those two factors are at the root of any registry cleaner debate, pros & cons. There are even malware authors that put their scripts in the registry to avoid detection by security software because their malware is fileless. The registry's also bloated, over-complicated, in large parts undocumented, and when it comes to software developers, unregulated - anyone can add whatever they want to the registry, pretty much wherever they want to add it, for whatever purpose they desire. Watching the lines flow by in the window, it's plain to see why someone would want that registry as optimized as possible.ĭocsmicrosoftcom/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/ Fire it up & you'll see the thousands & thousands of times it accesses the registry in just minutes. SysInternals has a small app called Process Monitor that logs everything Windows is doing behind the scenes when it's running.
