Registry Cleaners

[devilpoup]

whats a good and free registry cleaner? i have/used ccleaner, wise registry cleaner, glary utilities, advance system care, and argente. it seems none of them finds what the others find. id like to find one that if i run another it doesnt find like extra 40 the other ones missed.

[computer2slow]

I've heard a lot of people say reg cleaners are bad and cause more trouble then they fix or prevent.
That said They are probable like spyware finders. No one, find finds everything.

[monkeyextension]

I don't think cleaning your registry achieves much

The only thing I can it would help with would be managing what programs run at startup, and I think that can be better achieved using msconfig (start>run>msconfig)

[harvestthesouls]

Also, just a side note, be very careful if you're using vista, I made the biggest mistakee of my life running all my XP maintenance appz, such as the ones from uniblue, spyhunter, regboost, mega, etc. lol Seriously, doing so will delete most critical windows system files, which you will not be able to recover via system restore!

[dembar]

I use CCleaner... no complains... but maybe you can be more specific about what you want to get rid of?

[ozzybuds]

I wouldn't touch them. Better off just backing up your data and doing a clean rebuild. Once you've done this and put all your apps back on its a good idea to take an image of it and use it as your base restore point. then next time you want to rebuild you only have to copy recent data over.

I put tons of garbage on my machine and am always mucking about with it. As a result, I rebuild all the time.

[gtmofflin]

Originally Posted by ozzybuds

I wouldn't touch them. Better off just backing up your data and doing a clean rebuild.

I'd have to agree. There's very few Pros to registry cleaners these days and a helluva lot of cons. You can stuff up your system very easily just from forgetting to do a backup before deleting something, especially when you think the thing you are deleting isn't going to harm anything

Register cleaners were far more useful prior to Xp days when programs relied heavily on the registry. That's less of a case these days as programs begin to utilize better system architecture, as well at .net framework etc.

[xodus]

Also agreed, in all my years I've never had good success with the few reg cleaners I've used. Just faster to do a clean rebuild with all the stuff you'd screw up.

[computer2slow]

Be extra careful now. I read they can very easily kill Win7 dead.