Reg Cleaners

[CoasterCowboy]

There was a thread recently on reg cleaners, i can remember that JV Powertools was recommended, but suggestions/recommendations on any other utils will be greatly accepted.

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[Erbmaster]

I'd recommend Reg Supreme
It's an awesome app, but doesn't come free.
You can however download a free 30 day trial,
so it will give you a chance to see if it's what you want.

 

[Erbmaster]

If you want free alternatives, try looking at some of these...

Easy Cleaner
Reg Cleaner
Reg Seeker

and I believe as well as Windows own Regclean, there is registry cleaning
functionality built into TweakUI, although i'm not certain.
Microsoft PowerTools for WindowsXP

Hope this helps

 

[CoasterCowboy]

Many thanks

Consider my Reg cleaned

 

[Perris Calderon]

Be carefull with any or these tools...many of them find "useless" values that are actually purposefull.

often times yu will remove an entry, a month or so later, something isn't working the way it's supposed to, and you won't even assoicate the two events, though they are cause and affect

for instance, in the beginning, some of these regcleaners corupted restore.

so months later, when a restore couldn't be aquired, it was hard to figure out why the files were corrupt

things like this

try not to use the bulk removal, just do the search, then make individual decisions as to what stays and goes

now this is harder then it sounds, since some of these are going to find like 400 "useless" entries

just be carefull

 

[Erbmaster]

Many thanks

Consider my Reg cleaned

No problem. Now just read that thingy under
NetRyder's sig...*whistles*

 

[NetRyder]

No problem. Now just read that thingy under
NetRyder's sig...*whistles*

 

[napalmnthemorning]

Great point perris. I've tried several reg cleaners that after I cleaned with them they deleted a critical file that was needed to run a program. This happened after it indicated the file appeared safe to delete. The best and safest reg cleaner I have used and still do is
RegCleaner

 

[NetRyder]

Another vote for RegSupreme.
Never had a problem using it. I don't use it too often though...just about a couple of times each month.

 

[dreamliner77]

For alot of folks, that would be very often. Most people don't even defrag half that often.

 

[chastity]

I've used reg clean and like it though I don't clean in that part of the system as often as maybe should. as for defrag that gerenally happens anytime my system goes to screen saver

 

[American Zombie]

Registry First Aid is pretty good.
http://www.rosecitysoftware.com/Reg1Aid/

 

[Johnny]

Yep - RegSupreme "Pro" is da bomb .. It is regcleaner, jv16, and regcleaner in one ..

 

[polyglory]

Registry First Aid is pretty good.
http://www.rosecitysoftware.com/Reg1Aid/

Yep I agree, I have never had any problems with it.

 

[gonaads]

Are there any RegCleaners that will actually make "backups" of the entries it cleans out? For that "just in case" senario that perris brought up. This way you could re-enter the entry into your Regestry.

 

[polyglory]

Are there any RegCleaners that will actually make "backups" of the entries it cleans out? For that "just in case" senario that perris brought up. This way you could re-enter the entry into your Regestry.

Registry First Aid does, can't speak for any of the others