The registry was designed to hold system-level settings in a common location to allow Windows and programs to store configuration & other information.
It was never intended to hold any personal information. There might be a few rare cases in which "personal info" like the name of the person entered during the initial set up of the PC, etc could be found, but in general, it does not store any user "data".
Also, I tell all my friends and clients that 95% of the free programs out there aren't "free programs" - they are BAIT!
Unless there is a visible business model behind a free program (like Adobe Acrobat reader being free helps Adobe sell their content creation tools or AVG wants you to move up to their for-pay products...), most of the free stuff out there has a hidden agenda - and usually it is at you or your PCs expense. Spying on your browsing habits without you knowing about it, introduce "parasite" programs with their install routines, browser pop-ups, web page redirects, etc, etc...
Why on earth would anyone go to the trouble of providing "free" programs unless they have an angle to make money??
For some reason - it seems like most of the really vicious malware these days masquerades as antivirus or "registry cleaner" garbage...
Malwarebytes, hijackthis, Microsoft Security Essentials, and AVG are about the only free tools I trust... Not saying there aren't others out there - but I've seen so much of that fly-by-night garbage that comes and goes over the past years, I just like to stick to those...
In short, I would just be careful what gets installed on my PC in the first place, and not worry about trying to "clean" the registry...
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