Registry Cleaner

lolwtfbbq · 1 Dec 2007 at 11:50

Are they safe and and you suggest a good one (if they are safe).

4T5 · 1 Dec 2007 at 11:55

I use RegCleaner & use its Auto feature. Not had a problem yet. *Touches my wood*

Edit
I use Ccleaner as well.

quackers · 1 Dec 2007 at 11:57

We had a massive problem getting rid of plesk 8.2 from a dedicated server last week and had to remove it manually, we used cccleaner and it did the job.

I've also just used it at home and it seems to be ok

jbloggs · 1 Dec 2007 at 12:01

Are they safe

Indeed so....if used correctly...ie. always make a backup of the registry values you are deleting, so if there is an adverse change from removing them, you can simply add them back in from the backup.

suggest a good one

CCleaner

RegSeeker

etc....

allllec · 1 Dec 2007 at 12:05

CCleaner is good.

Or something slightly more agressive RegSeeker.

lolwtfbbq · 1 Dec 2007 at 12:05

Thanks

Duke · 1 Dec 2007 at 13:53

CCleaner has never messed up a system for me

n3crius · 1 Dec 2007 at 15:19

Does RegSeeker work well in Vista?

GSDog · 1 Dec 2007 at 15:44

CCleaner is a very basic registry cleaner. I use it everyday to clean other junk, and it does clean up some registry entries, but it also misses quite a lot.

I installed "Advanced WindowsCare V2 Personal" which is completely free, and it found something like 170 registry entires that CCleaner had missed. Some of the registry entries were really old.

CCleaner and Advanced WindowsCare seem to work well together.

MarcLister · 1 Dec 2007 at 17:42

Zildjian said:
I installed "Advanced WindowsCare V2 Personal" which is completely free, and it found something like 170 registry entires that CCleaner had missed. Some of the registry entries were really old.

Checking it out now.

allllec · 1 Dec 2007 at 19:27

The reason CCleaner does not find as many results as other programs might is intentional. As they state on their website its simply because its not designed to be aggressive. Ie it wont make mistakes.

swinnie · 1 Dec 2007 at 19:29

CCleaner.

Some people have recommended Easy Cleaner from ToniArts but I found that you cannot backup the keys. so steer clear!

C64 · 2 Dec 2007 at 03:57

Yes you can when you hit fix all issues it asks if you wish to make a backup.

MarcLister · 2 Dec 2007 at 18:55

I don't really use CCleaner for the registry cleaning function. I use RegCleaner for that and have it set to make backups for me so I can restore the settings if I screw something up.

sunderland · 2 Dec 2007 at 20:52

i use ccleaner but when im using the registry it keps showing 30 to clean do you want to backup i say no and then fix all,but it keeps showing the same amount all the time,i could sit there all night and it would be like that,is there a problem with this and 64bit vista

5tephen · 3 Dec 2007 at 00:51

I used to be seriously into registry cleaning and keeping things really shipshape etc, but I sorta realised after a while - what's the point in cleaning 100 or 200 keys out of a database that is millions of keys in size? In the years of me using jv16 PowerTools I have never noticed any difference after it cleaning maybe 600+ keys in my registry.

What made me really aware of this is the fact that I've run a couple of aggressive cleaners on other machines in the last year and they've just buggered the machines to the point that they no longer boot, not even in safe mode. I just thought, was removing those few keys ever remotely worth the hassle of bringing these machines back to life. That's only two cases, but anyway, what I mean is that it makes no real difference compared to cleaning out silly startup programs like Adobe Reader startup accelerator, ituneshelper, quicktime task, realsched, isuspm, all those standard things. That's the only real benefit you'll ever see. Removing a few hundred other keys won't make any difference especially these days with such high-spec hardware.