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11 months ago
in 19 Ways To Speed Up Windows XP on How To Split An Atom
Registry cleaners will do more harm then good. People take for granted that the software must know what its doing but I've seen a couple of programs that will tell the user "oh look we found something, not going to tell you what it is or what it does or where its located but you should delete it 'cause it'll speed up your computer uh-huh so just go ahead and click the OK " and the next thing you know the computer is righteously fubar'd. If you don't know what a registry is just leave it alone. Please. A lot of these are obvious, some don't work and running disk cleaner or defragging isn't going to make noticeable improvements for the average user and is really only helpful if done maybe twice a year. Ever meet users who insist on defragging weekly in a futile attempt to keep system performance up? If you want to replace your drive inside of 18 months be my guest.
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Registry cleaners are only bad if you hit delete without checking the log. I like C Cleaner because it shows you every single thing it will delete before deleting it. I spend a ton of time making sure the keys it's found are associated with programs and services that just failed to clean up after themselves. If you happen to do the shotgun approach you are setting yourself up for some really bad times.
Disk cleaners will recover a lot of space, if you do it once every 6 months or so. Will it supercharge your computer? Sources say unlikely, however, if you are looking for non-hardware approaches to getting a few extra cycles it couldn't hurt.
Great points though. To sum it up, if you really want to see noticeably improvements, get better hardware. All of these will "help" but they won't be night and day changes.