Recommendations for best Registry Cleaner

I have never been one to clean the registry, nor do I know the benefits
of doing it, but I am under the impression that it could make my
computer run quicker and better.

Any Suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

Chaz

Charles C. Perkins wrote:

I have never been one to clean the registry, nor do I know the
benefits of doing it, but I am under the impression that it could make
my computer run quicker and better.

Any Suggestions?

Do a Google Groups Advanced Search in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
for "registry cleaners" and you will get a ton of posts about them.
Most techs don't recommend them, but you can read the arguments for and
against and decide for yourself.

Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

You will get all kinds of "advice" and opinions on this and at the end
of the day you won't be any further ahead than you are now, if anything
you will be more confused about the issue than you were before you
posted. Be prepared to read adamant and vehement positions on the issue.

Unless you have specific problems with your registry no amount of
cleaning will make your computer run quicker and better. If anything it
might do the opposite.

John

Charles C. Perkins wrote:
I have never been one to clean the registry, nor do I know the benefits
of doing it, but I am under the impression that it could make my
computer run quicker and better.

Any Suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

Chaz

"Charles C. Perkins" wrote in message
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I have never been one to clean the registry, nor do I know the benefits
of doing it, but I am under the impression that it could make my
computer run quicker and better.

Any Suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

Chaz

The best registry cleaner is no registry cleaner. Using
them makes at best no difference to your PC's performance.
At worst they will cripple your machine. There is one class of
people who derive considerable benefit from registry cleaners.
The sellers.

Be extremely careful about these programs. I made the mistake of google'ing
the topic and trying a few different kinds with the net result of getting
viruses and heap of spyware on my PC. Long story short - 1 hard disk and
reformat and OS reinstall later and i'm back up and running *sigh*.

My advice, stay away from the free ones. Those are the ones that usually
have the spyware and viruses bundled together. Their are exceptions to this
rule however. RegSeeker is a powerful cleaner (found more entries than the
paid-for programs) and has a host of other features as well not to mention
being free (http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm). You don't even have to
install it.

That being said, after my reformat and reinstall, I haven't used any
registry cleaning software again for fear that despite using a program that
is virus and spyware free; the program may accidentally delete a critical
reg entry. (this happened to me as well). This, in my opinion, can be true
for ALL registry cleaning software.

But if I absolutely had to use one. I'd probably use Registry Mechanic from
PC Tools
(http://www.pctools.com/registry-mech...oogle_registry).
You have to pay for it, but at least you can get support when things go
horribly wrong (which they usually do =P). One more thing - You have to
renew your subscrition for use of this software (probably every year) much
like antivirus software - which is extremely lame. C'est la vie.



Goodluck, you're gonna need it. ^_~

"Charles C. Perkins" wrote in message
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I have never been one to clean the registry, nor do I know the benefits of
doing it, but I am under the impression that it could make my computer run
quicker and better.

Any Suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

Chaz

Charles C. Perkins wrote:
I have never been one to clean the registry, nor do I know the benefits
of doing it, but I am under the impression that it could make my
computer run quicker and better.

Any Suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

Chaz

I use Crap Cleaner. It's free( donation ware).
This has a registry cleaning section.
http://www.ccleaner.com/


To defrag the registry use Page Defrag from Sysinternals. It's free.
http://www.sysinternals.com/

HTH, Major Tom.

I use www.pctools.com Registry Mechanic.It works well and IMHO is better
than the BIG name products from Symantec etc... When i have systems that are
in trouble this tool always comes through..

Cheers.

IG

"Major Tom" wrote in message
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Charles C. Perkins wrote:
I have never been one to clean the registry, nor do I know the benefits
of doing it, but I am under the impression that it could make my
computer run quicker and better.

Any Suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

Chaz

I use Crap Cleaner. It's free( donation ware).
This has a registry cleaning section.
http://www.ccleaner.com/


To defrag the registry use Page Defrag from Sysinternals. It's free.
http://www.sysinternals.com/

HTH, Major Tom.

Hi Charles:

I have seen many unfavorable results from use of registry cleaners and few
good results. I do not use them nor do I recommend them.

Mark

"Charles C. Perkins" wrote:

I have never been one to clean the registry, nor do I know the benefits
of doing it, but I am under the impression that it could make my
computer run quicker and better.

Any Suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

Chaz

Charles C. Perkins wrote:
I have never been one to clean the registry, nor do I know the benefits
of doing it, but I am under the impression that it could make my
computer run quicker and better.

Any Suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

Chaz
Try easycleaner

http://www.toniarts.com/

Sometime ago I downloaded a Registry cleaner from Microsoft which I used on
Windows 98. Can't find it now.

"Stuart Nathan" wrote in message
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Sometime ago I downloaded a Registry cleaner from Microsoft which I used
on
Windows 98. Can't find it now.

I think your post wins the prize for the most useless
contribution in this thread. By a big margin.

Hello,
After you read some of the posters information and you want to continue,
suggest you backup the registry.
Have been using the following for awhile:
crapcleaner, regseeker, jv16powertools and erunt for registry backup. These
are all the free versions. Suggest never use any cleaner in the "Auto" mode.
Sysinternals: page defrag "defrags what Windows does not defrag"and ntregopt
"optimizes registry after using cleaners", these are free.
I download, install, run and remove many programs every month and I found
that using cleaners in this situation is of some help.
take care.
beamish.


"Charles C. Perkins" wrote:

I have never been one to clean the registry, nor do I know the benefits
of doing it, but I am under the impression that it could make my
computer run quicker and better.

Any Suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

Chaz

LOL



"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:


"Stuart Nathan" wrote in message
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Sometime ago I downloaded a Registry cleaner from Microsoft which I used
on
Windows 98. Can't find it now.

I think your post wins the prize for the most useless
contribution in this thread. By a big margin.

Today, with great enthusiasm and quite emphatically, Charles C.
Perkins laid this on an unsuspecting readership ...

I have never been one to clean the registry, nor do I know the
benefits of doing it, but I am under the impression that it
could make my computer run quicker and better.

Any Suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

I use JV16 Powertools about once a month. Whatever you choose, be
aware that messing with the Registry for anything except an
emergency fix is courting with disaster if you aren't careful and
aren't 100.000% aware of what you're doing.

'Tis true that the Registry accumulates crap left over from old
installs, uninstalls, updates, etc., and the various
install/ininstall programs leave hundreds - sometimes thousands -
of orphans after they're done. Also, despite what MVPs will tell
you, Windoze itself creates crap and even corrupts its own
Registry.

At a /minimum/ you should set a Restore Point before messing with
the Registry at all. Preferably, you should have a recent full
partition image in case things should go awry.

Finally, do /NOT/ allow /any/ cleaner to run on full automatic! Let
it create its list, then use the giant CPU between your ears to
decide what is and what is not clutter. And, remember the old
saying "don't try to fix things that aren't broken."

--
ATM, aka JerryR

"Everything that can be invented has been invented" - U. S. Patent
Commissioner, Charles H. Duell, 1899

Today, with great enthusiasm and quite emphatically, Pegasus
(MVP) laid this on an unsuspecting readership ...


"Charles C. Perkins" wrote in message
...
I have never been one to clean the registry, nor do I know
the benefits of doing it, but I am under the impression that
it could make my computer run quicker and better.

Any Suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

Chaz

The best registry cleaner is no registry cleaner. Using
them makes at best no difference to your PC's performance.
At worst they will cripple your machine. There is one class of
people who derive considerable benefit from registry cleaners.
The sellers.

yep, I can always count on an MVP to spout the company line here.

Say, Pegasus, you ever look at your own Registry after
uninstalling software or doing updates? Easy example: I needed to
uninstall and reinstall Paint Shop Pro 9 last year, used
Add/Remove programs and even Corel's ZapPSP utility. And, JV16
Powertools still found some 5,000 orphaned Registry entries! You
people are wise to advice the novices not to mess with things
they don't understand, but efffiency can be gained by judiciously
cleaning crap out of the Registry, including dead keys, obsolete
keys, and the like. Of course, a RP should be set first and one
should have a recent disk image.

And, like most useful utilities marketed by 3rd party developers,
it has always astounded me that a guy so supposedly as bright as
Bill the Gates doesn't put them all immediately out-of-business
by writing and selling his own utilities. Naturally, if he did,
they would be about as creative, innovative and bug-free as other
microcrap stuff. The current ROTFLMYA is Vista. For the flag-ship
product and major revenue source, for M$ to "voluntarily" delay
release a year must mean that even all those brilliant people
Bill talked about during his step down bloviant speech couldn't
make it work!

--
ATM, aka JerryR

"Everything that can be invented has been invented" - U. S.
Patent Commissioner, Charles H. Duell, 1899