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Registry cleaners and driver installation software seem to be popular for bundling stuff with them. I think the android version of CCleaner literally installed

• WorldMaker 6y ago
  Registry cleaners are absolutely a theatrical sham. The worst part is they are more likely to do harm than any positive effects simply by the nature of "registry cleaning". The registry is an extremely MRU (Most Recently Used) optimized database. At best "regular cleaning" just trashes MRU statistics deoptimizing exactly what the OS tries to optimize in the first place. The registry is also heavily optimized to be read heavy rather than write heavy. At worst that MRU churn from "regular cleaning" directly becomes a cause for database corruption simply by the volume of writes it forces and the likelihood that a power loss or similar occurs during those writes. The number of times I've seen friends/family regularly using CCleaner and then complaining about corrupt registry hives and needing to drastically recover Windows is far too many.
• P_I_Staker 6y ago
  It's true for most freeware, unfortunately. Project gets a good reputation, and looks to cash in; unfortunately the options are limited. Often times it's not even the original authors, who sold out, and moved on.