Are Registry Cleaners Worth It?

One of the Windows components that optimization programs target is the registry which is essentially the "brain" of Windows. Because of the danger associated with this, I very seldom touch my registry and I never run registry cleaners.I know there are claims that cleaning your registry will improve your system performance but I don't really see this. To me, the benefit of potentially gaining a few blinks of an eye in speed is not worth the risk of potentially hosing your entire installation. I am not the only one who thinks this, Bill Pytlovany (the guy who develops WinPatrol) has some thoughts on this as well.CCleaner is popular among a lot of our readers and I know it offers a registry cleaner. Do you use a registry cleaner and if so can you really tell a difference?

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