maddangerous
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This. It's usually recommended against touching the registry unless you know what you're doing.
Sure, you guys might not have had any problems with CCleaner and the registry cleaner, but it's not really necessary either. You're not really going to gain any performance by removing a few registry entries, unless that's actually the root of the problem (which rarely it is). I used to use the registry option in CCleaner as well; but as of late, when I do use CCleaner, I don't touch the registry option.
That is a good point about the registry, as i do check the entries before i delete them, and i back them up every time as well.
however, it does help when you need to get rid of registry keys from uninstalled software, i have had a few drivers that left behind registry info that would not reinstall a later version properly, because that information was still there. Same goes for some programs. For some reason, Alcohol 120% in particular i have problems with, yet i don't know anyone else that does..