What software do I use to fix registry errors.

[soldsoul4foos]

I plan to go on doing what I've always done: cleaning the reg of invalid entries, empty keys, etc.....and compacting, defragging it when I need to.

I try to keep anything gratuitous, outdated, useless out of my computers.

I read long ago, that some people do a clean install every 6 mos! I was amazed.
Apparently, glut accummulates over time, and the systems in question slow down.

I have never once had to do that. I think, because of this keep it lean clean and clean and mean strategy. If I had experienced some issue, some downside to reg cleaning/compacting.....I would not still be doing it.

I also pick my apps carefully and test each. Any I find Less Than, I uninstall.

People should do what works for them as individuals.

LOL! More power to you. If this is your hobby, that's fine. However, if you are in the position where you are making a living doing it, nobody has time for that shit! I'll spend my time on more important things in the SMB realm. That stuff will not make a pisshole in the snows difference.

 

[trillock]

I must admit I use a registry cleaner which is one of the tools in Ashampoo Uninstaller 5.
But, only when I have had a bit of grief uninstalling a game, and to annoy the left overs I run the cleaner to see how many bits of the game is left over and removed.

 

[Capt Caveman]

I use CCleaner and Advanced System Care, regualarly clean my registry. I've never had an issue.

 

[Capt Caveman]

And then you use three or four other reg cleaners, and then you defrag, and then you check out another defrag program and delve into every single feature. After that you wonder why the new computer is not beeping to signal normal operations and make that a three day research project. If it makes you feel good go for it, just don't try to prove it does something without showing objective evidence that it does. So far all you have pointed out is that you do a lot of work fiddling around and your computer didn't break. I can uninstall a program in Windows control panel in under 20 seconds and have the same result.

Except it doesn't remove the registry entries. If I ever have to go and perform a registry edit, it's always easier for me to see a streamline list of apps and not all the shit I've already uninstalled.

 

[Morbus]

The longest I've gone without a clean reinstall is a year and a month. And it showed. I go out of my way to keep my computer clean and running smoothly, and I use CCleaner to that effect, but installing and uninstalling software damages Windows in ways that I don't think this sort of applications can fix... I have never had any problems whatsoever with CCleaner, but I don't feel any particular need to defrag/clean the registry. Specially now that I have an SSD, it's most irrelevant, I'd say.

Doesn't mean I don't do it every week (just the cleaning and fixing with CCleaner) but that's mostly out of habit. Like emptying the recycling bin.

 

[ringtail]

environment: i7 Windows 7 Pro 64 SP1

I use
(1) Eusing Free Registry Cleaner probably around once a day, and
(2) CCleaner registry cleaner after every uninstall/install and occasionally other times, and
(3) CCleaner regular cleaner tool approx. every day,
(4) plus built-in ordinary Windows Disk Cleanup / Cleanup Systyem Files to delete old backups when I think of it, say maybe weekly, and
(5) maybe once a month or so I run the more extensive hidden built-in Windows cleaner tool (Sageset / Sagerun (link to Sageset explanation and link to Sagerun explanation)
(6) maybe once a month I go into Computer/Properties/Advanced and kill the entire old System Protection history and refresh it so it's all brand new,
(7) Maybe 3 or 4 times a year run Eusing Free RegDefrag (computer definitely behaves noticeably faster after this - you who deny benefit of defrag are simply mistaken)
(8) run the ordinary built-in Windows Defrag on all hdd's around once a week more or less.
(9) All hdd's backup imaged to external drive at least once a day, or sometimes 2x a day say if I launch one then leave for lunch, then 2nd one that same night.
(10) Kaspersky scan at least every day, usually more than once a day.
(11) FileHippo update checker every day to keep current
(12) Windows update checker around 3X a week or when I think of it (I don't let it run in the background, or else it'd install idiotic things like Remote Desktop Protocol 8.0 or Bing toolbar or other crap like that)
(13) A few things I have to look for updates whenever I think of it because FileHippo doesn't include them, like MySQL, tor, truecrypt, Apache, MozBackup, Hosts file, and couple others.

Lotta those are simply run sort-of-absent-mindedly while I'm otherwise busy on the phone