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Well i wonder if someone could re-write that part of Windows to have the registry in LOCAL FILES instead. (Would be an interesting project (Especially if it worked ))

I just tried EasyCleaner 2.0, after running CCleaner til it couldn't find anything, and EasyCleaner found like 100+ more entries. Love it, thank you!

So many other options also!

Edit: Windows XP Professional SP3 - Found that it doesn't like staying stable, crashes after scanning for duplicates.
Gonna restart see if this helps.

Restarted did not help, sad actually I was looking forward to using this program. Good features, just very unstable. Oh well.

I agree, I'm not saying they don't find things that are misplaced, corrupted, remnant of an installation prog, and all that other crap. But ever notice how it just makes you  " feel good " , in thinking everything is fine, bu8t then why does it take so long to find them all, yet like 500 milliseconds to delete them ?  Because it's not deleting them, just masking them by saying the program recognizes them, so it wont say there's anything wrong again, by flagging them. Thats my best guess as to how they work anyway. 

Thats the thinking effect. You are thinking you are getting better speeds when you really are not. It happens to everyone, and it happens with many tweaking programs.

Deleting a 100 records from a registry with 100 million entries wont make a difference. Deleting 10,000 wouldn't even make a difference in performance of your computer.   

It's purely coincidence that everything runs better after a registry cleaning.   

How many entries does the average windows registry hold ?

i stopped using ccleaner's registry cleaner a lot after it severely disabled my sytem a couple times. Now sometimes i run it but only delete like the really obvious stuff from uninstalled programs.