Advantages and Disadvantages
Due to the sheer size and complexity of the registry database, manually cleaning up redundant and invalid entries may be impractical, so registry cleaners try to automate the process of looking for invalid entries, missing file references or broken links within the registry and resolving or removing them.
The correction of an invalid registry key can provide some benefits, as listed above; but the most voluminous will usually be quite harmless, obsolete records linked with COM-based applications whose associated files are no longer present.
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