Guest notval@notval.nv Posted October 9, 2008 Posted October 9, 2008 I know of cookies, index files and suchlike. A great number of cleaners are available to remove/shred those files. My question is: includes the registry information on visited web sites and/or downloaded files? Thanx, Fred
Guest Ken Blake, MVP Posted October 9, 2008 Posted October 9, 2008 Re: Registry and privacy On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:48:23 +0200, notval@notval.nv wrote: > I know of cookies, index files and suchlike. A great number of > cleaners are available to remove/shred those files. > > My question is: includes the registry information on visited web sites > and/or downloaded files? Sorry, I don't understand what you mean by that question. But if you are asking about registry cleaners, here's my standard post on the subject: Registry cleaning programs are *all* snake oil. Cleaning of the registry isn't needed and is dangerous. Leave the registry alone and don't use any registry cleaner. Despite what many people think, and what vendors of registry cleaning software try to convince you of, having unused registry entries doesn't really hurt you. The risk of a serious problem caused by a registry cleaner erroneously removing an entry you need is far greater than any potential benefit it may have. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup
Guest notval@notval.nv Posted October 9, 2008 Posted October 9, 2008 Re: Registry and privacy On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:48:17 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote: >On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:48:23 +0200, notval@notval.nv wrote: > >> I know of cookies, index files and suchlike. A great number of >> cleaners are available to remove/shred those files. >> >> My question is: includes the registry information on visited web sites >> and/or downloaded files? > > >Sorry, I don't understand what you mean by that question. But if you >are asking about registry cleaners, here's my standard post on the >subject: > >Registry cleaning programs are *all* snake oil. Cleaning of the >registry isn't needed and is dangerous. Leave the registry alone and >don't use any registry cleaner. Despite what many people think, and >what vendors of registry cleaning software try to convince you of, >having unused registry entries doesn't really hurt you. > >The risk of a serious problem caused by a registry cleaner erroneously >removing an entry you need is far greater than any potential benefit >it may have. John thanks. My question is related to privacy. What I wanted to say: I know that traces of one's web activity can be found in -files-. Files can be deleted/shredded. Now the registry is different. My question: is there inside the registry information on one's web/download history? Readable with regedit, should you know where to look. Fred
Guest db.·.. > Posted October 9, 2008 Posted October 9, 2008 Re: Registry and privacy the simple conclusion is that the software you have or had can be traced back to its origin because of the keys in the registry/database, whether the keys are active or orphaned. so this is one of the reasons for keeping outdated data out of the registry file/database. however, different registry cleaners utilize different criterion for removing keys. for example, the one care safety scanner version and then running eusing utilize two different methodologies for determining keys that can be removed. once the keys are removed they are not recoverable. however, the registry and the keys it had can be restored via system restore or from a back up. another point to make is that simply deleting files or folders from your disk is the snake oil because unless the space is "wiped" cleaned and "replaced" with data utilizing specialized software, then that data, which is presumed to be deleted, is in fact fully recoverable. and yet the above is not totally secure, because some software that "wipe" away deleted data, simply relocate that data to a different place on the disk. ----------- because you specifically asked about cookie data inside the registry; its easy for you to check for yourself and develop your own understanding by clicking on: start>run>regedit then go to the menu and use the "find" option/feature and enter any criterion that you are interested with. -- db·´¯`·...¸><)))º> <notval@notval.nv> wrote in message news:spnse4lvq0s4dfsnsvr2972qjpfnah99t6@4ax.com... >I know of cookies, index files and suchlike. A great number of > cleaners are available to remove/shred those files. > > My question is: includes the registry information on visited web sites > and/or downloaded files? > > Thanx, Fred
Guest notval@notval.nv Posted October 9, 2008 Posted October 9, 2008 Re: Registry and privacy On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 17:22:59 -0500, db.·.. ><))) ·>` .. . <databaseben.public.newsgroup.microsoft.com> wrote: Snip,snip ..... >because you specifically asked about >cookie data inside the registry; its easy for >you to check for yourself and develop >your own understanding by clicking on: >start>run>regedit > >then go to the menu and use the >"find" option/feature and enter >any criterion that you are interested >with. Wow, I could have thought of that myself (but did not!) Thanks, Fred
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