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Originally Posted by scottmandue
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It's very good, but you misunderstand what it's for. It removes dangling references to DLL's, malformed/bogus registry keys, missing installers/file type associations and the like - and grooms/compacts the registry. Oh, and cleans up unused/old temporary files, MRU entries and stuff.
This can make a huge speed improvement - some programs try to open the same registry key as many as 7-8 times a second to check the value (check out the Process Monitor/Explorer tools from SysInternals - bought by Microsoft several years ago - if you don't believe me).
A lean registry is A Good Thing.
But CrapCleaner (the original name) does nothing to remove malware, fake virus scanners, toolbars or that sort of junk. The defrag program (degraggler) from the same company is about 300% better than the native 'Doze tool, too...