How safe is RegCure Pro?

Anonymous
2013-03-13T14:49:26+00:00

Should I allow RegCure PRO from Pareto Logic make changes on my pc?

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Anonymous
2013-03-14T00:35:23+00:00

On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:49:26 +0000, richray-hotmail.com wrote:

Should I allow RegCure PRO from Pareto Logic make changes on my pc?

No! You should dump it immediately. Don't run it and don't let it do
anything.

Registry cleaning programs are all snake oil. Cleaning of the
registry isn't needed and is dangerous. Leave the registry alone and
don't use any registry cleaner. Despite what many people think, and
what vendors of registry cleaning software try to convince you of,
having unused registry entries doesn't really hurt you.

The risk of a serious problem caused by a registry cleaner erroneously
removing an entry you need is far greater than any potential benefit
it may have.

Read http://www.edbott.com/weblog/archives/000643.html
and http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=28099
and also
http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2005/10/02/registry-junk-a-windows-fact-of-life.aspx

Let me point out that neither I nor anyone else who warns against the
use of registry cleaners has ever said that they always cause
problems. If they always caused problems, they would disappear from
the market almost immediately. Many people have used a registry
cleaner and never had a problem with it.

Rather, the problem with a registry cleaner is that it carries with it
the substantial risk of having a problem. And since there is no
benefit to using a registry cleaner, running that risk is a very bad
bargain.

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Anonymous
2013-03-13T17:28:09+00:00

As with all these 'SpeedUpMyPc' type of programs as safe as holding a rattle snake by its tail

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-09-23T08:57:17+00:00

    All of which could probably be dealt with using standard tools in Windows, is does not require 3rd party tools to delete files. Deleting the internet cache or using the Disk Cleanup tool does the job

    The question is what files did it delete, how did they get there and why did it decide they were junk? Simple file deletion is not the issue although even that has its risk. It is called RegCure Pro primarily because it "repairs" the registry and that is where significant damage can occur which is then difficult to repair.

    Although deleting unreplaceable files comes a close second.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-09-23T08:42:41+00:00

    RegCure Pro IS THE REAL DEAL! My 1 of 2 hard drives, the C drive went from 174GB to 3.29GB in a matter of hours! 454GB is the max on each of my drives. I was doing some serious downloading! I knew I had to do a scan quickly! I scanned using RegCure Pro and it found 202.26GB worth of Junk Files on my computer! Wow! After scanning and rebooting my PC I checked my hard drive and low and behold it was at 201GB worth of free space! I will definitely keep using RegCure Pro! :D

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-09-10T13:31:04+00:00

    Very true, Ken.  I was dumb enough to try REGPROCURE and lost access to my printer and scanner for 2 days until I finally managed to return the system back to an earlier version and re-install my software.  No benefit and major problems costing me two days work.

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