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Registry scan/repair

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Bedford

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Looking for a registry scan and repair/clean. Alot of them out there that claim to be "free" just to get you to download and find hundreds of errors and then they give you the price for repair. These guys piss me off. Lets face it, nothing is for free. I am looking for a good and resonably priced product that I could download and register with PayPal without all that B.S. Where should I look?

Bedford
 
In Windows 98, you could rebuild the registry from a DOS prompt. It really saved a few computers that had problems.

Can that be done in Windows XP?

As suggested, CCleaner has a built-in registry cleaner. You can also try the one in Spybot Search and Destroy and RegCleaner 4.3 (later versions are not free).
 
Originally posted by: timswim78
In Windows 98, you could rebuild the registry from a DOS prompt. It really saved a few computers that had problems.

Can that be done in Windows XP?

As suggested, CCleaner has a built-in registry cleaner. You can also try the one in Spybot Search and Destroy and RegCleaner 4.3 (later versions are not free).
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In Windows XP it'll probably be faster to run a Repair installation. Depending on the extent of the damage, of course.
 
I'm using a program called Clean My PC, which is the only one that I could find, at the time, that was a true x64 cleaner. It works on both x64 and x32, and according to their website, works on Vista also. I've been using it for a few months now, and I have no complaints.

http://www.registry-cleaner.net/
 
The best registry cleaner is none of the above.

My experiece is that I rarely see any advantages from doing a registry clean and that I often see real problems pop up a few weeks later that I suspect happened because some registry key was removed by the registry cleaner.

I just spent several days trying to understand why Windows updates all failed to install. I finally did a google search on the error code and found a MS technote with instructions to check the values of a registry key. Guess what, that key didn't exist in my registry. I think that I had recently run the ccCleaner registry cleaner and I think it may have removed that key. When I recreated the key values by hand, Windows Update started working again.

 
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