Reg cleaning and startup tweaking - How safe is Regseeker?

Feek · 12 Feb 2006 at 19:05

I've downloaded regseeker and told it to scan the registry of my PC and it's found over 2,100 entries. My OS build is a couple of years old. How good is regseeker? How easy it is to restore things it backs up?

Also, I seem to remember a program which examines all startup entries and has a database of what things are, giving a list of what's good to remove. It did the same for running processes IIRC. Anyone know what it could be?

K.

Kainz · 12 Feb 2006 at 19:29

Extremely safe, I've been using it on all my machines for years now and its one of my essential tools I can't live without. It stores backups as a .reg file, so to restore it I guess it'd be a simple matter of double clicking the reg file to restore the entries back into the registry.

I think the second prog you refer to is called Hijackthis or something like that.

Feek · 12 Feb 2006 at 19:33

Do you trust it explicitly when doing a full registry scan? Lots of green and red entries?

K.

Kainz · 12 Feb 2006 at 19:38

Yups, been doing full reg scans with it every 3 weeks for many years now. Once the scan is done, I just select all, right click and hit delete (both green&red entries). Not once ever needed to restore a backup either. It does miss some entries though, so I go back into the registry and manually remove any orphaned application keys etc.

DDave · 12 Feb 2006 at 19:58

Totally safe (is for me anyway), anything it finds I just delete and don't even bother with a backup as I've never had any problems.

marc2003 · 12 Feb 2006 at 20:17

i've been using regseeker for years too. no problems here either. :cool:

Feek · 12 Feb 2006 at 21:10

Thanks. What about the other thing, I don't think it's hijackthis....

/edit - Yes it is!

K.

Budge · 13 Feb 2006 at 13:10

I gave RegSeeker a go and it found loads of stuff which I nervously deleted. When I restarted the PC there was a problem with the ATI CCC and it said I didn't have 'admin rights to perform the action' or something and I kept getting this message whenever I started the PC.

I restored the registry from the backups but the problem was still there. I uninstalled and reinstalled ATI CCC, but still no luck.

I looked into it and found that it was a common problem but the fixes for it didn't work (for me anyway).

The only thing left to do was to completely retore my PC using Ghost.

Needless to say, I haven't touched RegSeeker since.

Kainz · 13 Feb 2006 at 13:22

^Shouldn't use CCC tbh since it's so bloated. I used to use RS when I did use CCC and had no problems there, obviously our pc's aren't alike so I'm not saying that its perfect.

4T5 · 13 Feb 2006 at 13:25

When i used regseeker it left a massive gap in the screen showing what progs i had installed.
When i used a defrag prog my Hard drive wouldn't boot up properly and eventually died.
Needless to say i am Very cautious when using any software.

What ever you do back everything up and stick it on a Disc before you do anything.
Strip out all the crap then set a system restore then try these other progs.
At least then you have a chance of full recovery when things go wrong.
Notice i say When things go wrong not if.

Duke · 13 Feb 2006 at 13:30

CrapCleaner is another good program to clean the registry/temp files.

afraser2k · 13 Feb 2006 at 14:43

Only problem I've found is that RegSeeker seemed to enjoy removing the settings for 7-Zip. If you are paranoid about using it then just backup the items using the RegSeeker options and/or delete the green items only.

GM@N · 13 Feb 2006 at 16:15

Its all well running a registry cleaning application but in reality all that does is leave big gaps in the registry. I'd recomend running regseeker then running a registry compressor such as RegCompact

Kainz · 13 Feb 2006 at 16:31

Also take a look at these:
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/

GM@N · 13 Feb 2006 at 16:57

Thats what i was looking for Kainz, I just couldnt remember the name of it.

VaderDSL · 13 Feb 2006 at 17:26

wow, seeing a nice increasein speed from windows after cleaning the registry then compacting it

now I think I'll defrag as well

Guinny · 14 Feb 2006 at 13:05

What about reg mechanic? is that any good?

Nelly · 22 Feb 2006 at 20:09

I use regseeker never had any problems, just downloaded that RegCompact 1.8 - windows bootup time is quicker now can tell the difference!! :cool:

konicky · 22 Feb 2006 at 22:41

Also, I seem to remember a program which examines all startup entries and has a database of what things are, giving a list of what's good to remove. It did the same for running processes IIRC. Anyone know what it could be?

Security Task Manager will examine startup entries. There is also a list of entries here :

www.processlibrary.com/directory/a/

DavidMarq · 22 Feb 2006 at 22:51

konicky said:
Also, I seem to remember a program which examines all startup entries and has a database of what things are, giving a list of what's good to remove. It did the same for running processes IIRC. Anyone know what it could be?

Security Task Manager will examine startup entries. There is also a list of entries here :

www.processlibrary.com/directory/a/

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