registry cleaners

[Pedro_The_Swift]

I've used CCleaner for years and just deleted everything,, never had a problem.

(True to form) I've found a (beta)regestry cleaner from COMODO and seeing I use its firewall product I thought I'd give it a burl,,

ran CC before hand and came up with 3 items to clean,,
ran COMODO and its found over 2000,,, :eek:

is this one of those products thats trying to scare me into paying money??

not sure I want to delete 2000 errors---

[JDNSW]

Registry? Don't use them!

But I feel your suspicions are right - surely even Windows couldn't have that many registry errors (or could it?)

John

[Phoenix]

oh it could, it could. Windows is far from perfect!

I'm a CC fan myself ;)

[abaddonxi]

Make a backup of your registry before you do anything.:angel:

2000 sounds like a lot unless you are installing and uninstalling a lot of software.

Simon

[Pedro_The_Swift]

Make a backup of your registry before you do anything. Done

2000 sounds like a lot unless you are installing and uninstalling a lot of software.
who? me?
:angel:

[d@rk51d3]

Was given a laptop recently, and had over 3000 registry errors. :o

[simonl8353]

I get annoying pop-up Registry errors messages about cleaning up the Register almost every minute.
Would "CCleaner" stop these? Is it freeware? I have run many of those downloadable registry cleaners which find hundreds of errors then they want my credit card number before it'll clean them.

As with Pedro, I'm very suspicious. I do not trust them.

I really only want these pop-ups to go away (for free) I dont even know what a registry is!

Have run Ad-Aware and Spybot and Avast anti-virus (all freeware) but cannot stop the damn registry pop-ups.:(

[Pedro_The_Swift]

not sure if it will stop the popups,, there are other programs for that,,
CCleaner will clean your registry though,,

and do a few other things as well,,


get the SLIM version,,,,
http://www.majorgeeks.com/CCleaner_Slim_No_Toolbar_d4191.html

[Pedro_The_Swift]

funnily enough it will be all those "other" registry programs
popping up after your money!!:p:p

get into your control panel, find the programs (or whatever your version of windows calls it) and DELETE everything you think is not necessary

[jik22]

It depends on how they define errors. Most likely, a lot are nothing more than MRU entries or missing shortcuts. Even a simple install and uninstall of a prgram can leave loads of orphaned entries though, so 2,000 isn't a huge number depending on what they are.

I personally don't bother using them, but if you do, take a proper backup first!

[mike 90 RR]

I've used CCleaner for years and just deleted everything,, never had a problem.

(True to form) I've found a (beta)regestry cleaner from COMODO and seeing I use its firewall product I thought I'd give it a burl,,

ran CC before hand and came up with 3 items to clean,,
ran COMODO and its found over 2000,,, :eek:

is this one of those products thats trying to scare me into paying money??

not sure I want to delete 2000 errors---

BE VERY CAREFULL ... I would say that you have no real errors and it is just trying to scare you big time

I also have tried different cleaners ... and most do more damage than good
I have used this one for years and has always proved reliable

Glary Utilities | Glarysoft (http://www.glarysoft.com) ... And it's free!!! no pop-up's or strings attached :)
& real simple .... click one button to "Analize" click another button to fix ... All done


Took me 10 types of different programs before I settled on this one
I use it on 3 computers ... all winXP

Only get between 3 to 20 errors to fix (once a month) ... but it fixed over 130 when first installed

[HangOver]

I have used CCleaner for years, well it seems like years anyhow.
Must have used it on lots???? of computers without any issues at all.

The "issues", (registry) facility has a back option but i've never had to use the backup.

I have also found that the "Cleaner" facility produces more noticable results than the reg cleaner when it comes to an improvement in system performance.

my 2 cents