questions regarding registry cleaning

[imported_razz]

I would like your comments on the following, thank you for your time, it is greatly appreciated:

I use CCleaner and find it to be very good. I was curious about Registry Mechanic (from PC Tools) and decided to download it on a trial basis. After cleaning my registry with CCleaner, I scanned my registry with Registry Mechanic and it found 376 additional errors. That seems like a lot to me.

My questions are:

(1) Is Registry Mechanic way too sensitive to registry issues (i.e. The issues it found are very irrelevant and do not need to be addressed) -- OR -- is CCleaner simply not sensitive enough to registry issues that need to be addressed?

(2) Do good free registry cleaners do an equally good job compared to good registry cleaner products that you have to purchase?

(3) Do you have any recommendations?

This is certainly not meant to be a frown upon CCleaner, because like I said, I really like the program, but I just want to know your opinion because 376 additional registry problems naturally worries me.

😕

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: razz

(3) Do you have any recommendations?

This is certainly not meant to be a frown upon CCleaner, because like I said, I really like the program, but I just want to know your opinion because 376 additional registry problems naturally worries me.

😕

I recommend not using registry cleaners at all. They don't do anything for performance, and you can end up with mystery problems if the automated cleaner takes something out that you need.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Some programs will place items in the Registry but not do all the extra items that MS expects to be done; registering the program properly, identifying what registry componets are to be associate with the program(s), etc

If a Registry cleaner finds such, it may remove those items because they do not follow the rules. The cleaner may consider it to be a bad uninstall of some program.

 

[imported_razz]

Thank you both for your great advice!

 

[Quiksilver]

I use Ccleaner all the time, have not had a single issue with using it to to clean my registry. On top of that they update pretty regularly.

 

[g8wayrebel]

I too use CCleaner as well as Advanced Windows Care Personal on a regular basis.
Most often , I run ACP on start and CC on shutdown.
I've never had an issue with either and no registry problems that I can ever recall.

 

[rgallant]

Originally posted by: razz
I would like your comments on the following, thank you for your time, it is greatly appreciated:

I use CCleaner and find it to be very good. I was curious about Registry Mechanic (from PC Tools) and decided to download it on a trial basis. After cleaning my registry with CCleaner, I scanned my registry with Registry Mechanic and it found 376 additional errors. That seems like a lot to me.

My questions are:

(1) Is Registry Mechanic way too sensitive to registry issues (i.e. The issues it found are very irrelevant and do not need to be addressed) -- OR -- is CCleaner simply not sensitive enough to registry issues that need to be addressed?

(2) Do good free registry cleaners do an equally good job compared to good registry cleaner products that you have to purchase?

(3) Do you have any recommendations?

This is certainly not meant to be a frown upon CCleaner, because like I said, I really like the program, but I just want to know your opinion because 376 additional registry problems naturally worries me.

😕

-I love cc no problems what so ever ,updated all the time .

-that said in general , I spent 8 Hrs last night after running a registry defrager recommended by a VISTA forums mod ,it renamed my hard drives ,lost my restore points ,McAfee would not run , could not reinstall ,side bar icons in vista corrupted , after running sfc/scannow over and over ,after vista repair did not fix ,back ups did not fix ,but removing IE8 did , so my system is back to normal , all but the spell checker
-only to show what works for almost every one is timed stamped to the software at that date and time to have caused no problems. but in the furture who can say.

 

[DasFox]

JV16 has been the most reputable cleaner available.

There is a lot of talk about registry corruption, something I've never experienced so I couldn't really say, but I do know that with some viruses, spyware/malware when they write to the regsitry they can cause issues there, and with a cleaner, this allows you to easily search a string and find all the results, and remove them easily over using just regedit searching results one at a time.

There are definitely good reasons to use a reg tool, it just depends on your needs.

I'd look at JV16: (No one has better respect then this tool for registry issues, they are the king)

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