Kim Komando's website advice

jackie

I was advised on Kim Komando's newsletter to use jv16 as a register cleaner to get rid of what she called computer crud in older computers. She advised everyone to "delete" ALL that it finds. But when I pressed the "delete" button, I got the warning that I could harm my computer, so all I did was a fix. Now, I am not sure if I did the right thing or not. Should I have hit "delete" like the computer guru suggested. I am a novice. Please answer in "simple terms" thank you.

tullik

Jackie wrote
I was advised on Kim Komando's newsletter to use jv16 as a register cleaner to get rid of what she called computer crud in older computers. She advised everyone to "delete" ALL that it finds. But when I pressed the "delete" button, I got the warning that I could harm my computer, so all I did was a fix. Now, I am not sure if I did the right thing or not. Should I have hit "delete" like the computer guru suggested. I am a novice. Please answer in "simple terms" thank you.

With the normal default settings:

Using "Fix" instead of "Delete" is quite all right. If an item can not be "fixed," it is deleted.

"Delete" removes a little more of the so-called "crud," but "Fix" is somewhat safer in theory.

erfoster

I am Kim Komando's editorial director. I stumbled on this question while researching something else. I actually wrote the answer to which Jackie referred. Kim was on vacation at the time.

I misspoke in that answer. I should have said to click Fix, not to simply delete the crud. Unfortunately, I didn't have jv16 in front of me when I wrote it.

I don't like recommending registry cleaners, generally. Most people don't have enough expertise to be messing with their registry. In addition, every crook worldwide seems to offer a registry cleaner. Some could probably do serious damage. However, I think Macecraft's product is excellent. If someone is ready to give up on their computer, it can't hurt to try it. I suspect lots of people replace computers unnecessarily.

The word crud was used to keep things simple. The average person wouldn't know a registry key from a house key.

You can find the reference to jv16 at http://www.komando.com/tips/index.aspx?id=7945&page=3

redseujac

In that article you wrote " That program is Macecraft’s jv16 PowerTools. (I guess it includes 16 tools; hence, the name...)".

"jv16" is not the name because of 16 tools. It's simply the combination of the first letters of the first name and the last name of the author of the program and his age when the program has been released, I guess ;)

jv16

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