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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Cleaning the Windows XP registry

Can you suggest some software to maintain the registry on our PC with XP SP2 installed? Ideally, I'd like to remove any non-essential entries to speed up the performance of the machine. Greg Barton

I'm not convinced that cleaning the registry makes any practical difference to Windows XP SP2, and I wouldn't expect it to make much, if any, difference to the speed. The only cleaner I now use with SP2 is CCleaner, which includes a registry cleaner, among other things. It's a free download, but watch out that it doesn't install the Yahoo toolbar as well.

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