🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 15:11:03 -0600, "philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote:

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>"Lookout" <mrLookout@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:50:35 -0600, "philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote:
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>> ><snip>
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>> >> >>> I've been using Linux almost as long as I've been using Windows.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Linux is not immune from it's own problems...
>> >> >>> and unless one is very familiar with Linux...the problems can
>> >> >>> sometimes be harder to sort out.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> That said, with a little bit of common sense, Windows should not
>> >> >>> require a re-install.
>> >> >>> I run mainly Win2k and XP and they have both been running 99% +
>> >> >>> trouble free for *many* years.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> You're living in a fantasy world.  Everybody knows that Windows
>slowly
>> >> >> accumulates bugs.  They've known almost from day one, when people
>> >> >> started griping about what a POS it was.
>> >> >
>> >> >Every OS accumulates bugs.  That's reality, son.
>> >> >
>> >> >/BHA
>> >>
>> >> Not if your regularly use a registry cleaner. I use FixIt Utilities
>> >> and to delete invalid or no longer need registry entries and files.
>> >
>> >
>> >I don't advise that at all,
>> >you can do more harm than good by using registry utilities.
>>
>> Of course that's true. You don't let it do all the work..you have to
>> watch what it points out as a problem and work from there.
>>
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>If you know exactly what you are doing...
>which I am sure is the case with you...that's fine.
>
>The only time I've used them is to cleanup the mess left behind
>by a poorly written application that would not uninstall...
>
>In that respect I found such a utility useful...
>but for someone who does not know what they are doing
>and just blindly lets one work...
>it could create a big problem.

I work with them before they use it. But if they want to learn it's a
useful tool.