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<blockquote data-quote="struppigel" data-source="post: 930051" data-attributes="member: 86910">The whole idea of registry cleaning is built on the assumption that Microsoft doesn&#039;t know their OS as well as these registry cleaner companies do and cannot take proper care of their own software. Even worse: Marketing these tools as performance boosting or helpful in any way is blatantly deceiving. While those cleaners remove entries that are not inherently necessary, many of the cleaned entries are there to improve performance for certain features (e.g. search indexing, recently accessed files), and their impact is often blown out of proportion. Users are made to feel like their system is dirty or in danger unless they use these tools.Many Auslogics products are detected as potentially unwanted programs (PUP) by Antivirus scanners. E.g., <a href="https://blog.malwarebytes.com/detections/pup-optional-auslogics/" target="_blank">Malwarebytes does</a> and their criteria for the verdict PUP is <a href="https://www.malwarebytes.com/pup/" target="_blank">posted here.</a>Actual leftovers from uninstalled programs can be removed with, e.g., Revo. But even those do not impact performance in a notable way.Microsoft does <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/microsoft-support-policy-for-the-use-of-registry-cleaning-utilities-0485f4df-9520-3691-2461-7b0fd54e8b3a" target="_blank">not support the use of registry cleaners</a>.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="struppigel, post: 930051, member: 86910"] The whole idea of registry cleaning is built on the assumption that Microsoft doesn't know their OS as well as these registry cleaner companies do and cannot take proper care of their own software. Even worse: Marketing these tools as performance boosting or helpful in any way is blatantly deceiving. While those cleaners remove entries that are not inherently necessary, many of the cleaned entries are there to improve performance for certain features (e.g. search indexing, recently accessed files), and their impact is often blown out of proportion. Users are made to feel like their system is dirty or in danger unless they use these tools. Many Auslogics products are detected as [B]potentially unwanted programs (PUP)[/B] by Antivirus scanners. E.g., [URL='https://blog.malwarebytes.com/detections/pup-optional-auslogics/']Malwarebytes does[/URL] and their criteria for the verdict PUP is [URL='https://www.malwarebytes.com/pup/']posted here.[/URL] Actual leftovers from uninstalled programs can be removed with, e.g., Revo. But even those do not impact performance in a notable way. Microsoft does [URL='https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/microsoft-support-policy-for-the-use-of-registry-cleaning-utilities-0485f4df-9520-3691-2461-7b0fd54e8b3a']not support the use of registry cleaners[/URL]. [/QUOTE]

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