On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 20:37:46 -0400, "Mayayana"
wrote:

| Whatever it is removing is obviously not needed and is affecting the
| performance in a big way. The proof is in the pudding.
|
| Com and DocX issues, Shared DLLs, Uninstall entries, are some of the
| items that are checked and removed. Not an issue if you set up a
| machine and never change it - but who does that today?? And if you
| install any apple or adobe or symantec products there WILL be crap to
| get rid of.

You never did come up with actual samples of removed
settings. Were you, by any chance, reading those items from
the CleanMyPC homepage?
http://www.registry-cleaner.net/

No I was not.
They're all irrelevant. I explained that earlier.
Work it out for yourself. Learn what the settings
actually are and you'll see they have nothing to do
with speed or efficiency. (Also it's ActiveX, not DocX.
And COM is the same thing as ActiveX. The latter is
just a marketing term for the former.)

Here's a simplified explanation of COM entries, for
anyone who's interested:

http://www.ewall.org/tech/msi/com-registration

Basically, the idea is that installers "register" files
for use by software. Software can then use the file's
functionality by looking it up in the Registry. If the file
is not registered, the software using it will not work.
On the other hand, if the software that uses that
functionality, including the COM file itself, is removed
without unregistering the COM file -- for instance, if
you just delete a program without running its uninstaller --
*nothing will happen*. The registration will still be there,
but it does no harm.

In the unlikely event that some other software wants
to use that COM file, which is now registered but gone,
you'll get an error like, "Unable to load library". And
what will happen if you remove the outdated entry as
part of your Registry "cleaning"? Same thing. It won't
matter unless some software tries to use the COM file.
If that happens you'll get an error like, "Unable to load
library". In neither case is it possible for any of this to
affect the speed of your computer.

Likewise with the Uninstall settings. At worst, a mixup
there could do something like show a program in Add/Remove
that's already been uninstalled. That might be nice to fix,
but it doesn't happen very often, and it would have
no effect on speed.

I don't see any reason to argue about this, but I
don't want to see people get misled into wasting money
on pointless software, so I'm trying to post enough
information so that people who want to can do their own
research and reach their own conclusions.


Look - I'm not going to argue any more. You believe what you believe.
I KNOW that when my machine slows down, I run the utility, and the
computer speeds right back up. That is ALL I NEED TO KNOW.