Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.115.84.2 ( talk) 00:44, 5 January 2009 (UTC) Reply
If you have a link in your registry startup group to \\somedeadmachine\somemissingshare\somefile.exe and that server isn't available, its requires no mystic power to figure out that's a suspect link. The underlying storage structure is closed, but the data stored in it is open.
You're confusing the internal storage structure of the registry (proprietary to Microsoft) with the metadata contained in it. You're incorrect about how much of the Registry is used by applications - most of the configuration data on modern versions of Windows is NOT application specific unless you've installed thousands of COM-based components. Every Microsoft knowledgebase article with even the smallest Registry change carries a warning about potentially fatal damage can be done by editing the Registry. Lofote ( talk) 18:42, 21 April 2008 (UTC) Reply These tools are not supported or endorsed by Microsoft because their writers don't have the inside information required so that the changes they make don't break anything. Plus, using utilities like REGMON you can quite easily check what keys are used by Windows or any given application. also use the registry to store information and configuration, so the fact, that Windows is closed source does not make life really harder. What does closed source have to do with all this? I am mean the keys that Windows uses are only a small part of the registry, mostly all modern programs, services, server+client applications, tools.
'is closed source, so registry cleaner designers can not know for sure whether any particular key is still being used by Windows or what detrimental effects removing it may have leading to examples of registry cleaners causing loss of functionality and, potentially, system instability'
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