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You can't argue with the wife that a clean house is better than a messy house. However some things are better left 'dirty', like the grease in a motorbike's chain. Likewise with a computer: it makes sense to dust the fingerprint marks off the screen every now and then but cleaning the registry? Whoever had this brilliant idea and thought it would 'speed up' the PC? There is a range of system optimizer software tools on sale, which I would never use. The operating system is such a complex beast that I bet even the creators don't have a full understanding of the interactions and how to 'optimize' the system. Some things made sense in the past like memory compacting, but nowadays there's no point for RAM optimization — it's like you have a shave trying to lose weight! I hate registry cleaners in particular. Whatever magical algorithm they use to figure out which registry keys are unused isn't working. I get people complaining that their xplorer˛ bookmarks disappear and they invariably use registry cleaners. Here we have an example for a so-called optimization that ends up hurting you (and xplorer˛ support). Somehow they consider the favorites section is junk and delete the relevant registry keys. I even have reports that some advanced uninstallers also end messing up other programs' registry settings while uninstalling unrelated software. How to protect your bookmarks? If you insist running such cleaners and optimizers then here's what you can do: take a backup of your xplorer˛ registry settings so if they happen to be erased again at least you can get your settings and bookmarks back. The procedure has been discussed in an older article but here are the basic steps again:
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