RE: Vista System maintenance (was Upgrade computer Was (Re: "budget" laptop?)

[Fred Ridder <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

Kathleen McDowell wrote (in small part):
> Where is the registry I need to clean? Cannot find.
Based on the fact that you do not even know what the
Windows registry is, do yourself a huge favor and stay 
away from it! As they say on TV: "Danger, Will Robinson!!"
 
The Windows registry manages a bunch of information 
that is absolutely essential to the operation of your 
system. It is very easy to corrupt the registry if you 
do not know *exactly* what you are doing. And if you 
corrupt the registry (without having made a backup of
it immediately before you started mucking around in it),
your system will most likely be completely hosed. The
registry is not for the uninitiated.
 
There are tools that specifically clean up the registry,
but unless you are sure that you know how to restore
the registry if anything goes awry, I'm convinced that
it is much safer to leave well enough alone. Yes, you
might sacrifice some performance, but unless you know
how to handle a restore the dowside risk is just too 
great, IMHO. 
 
-Fred Ridder
 
 
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