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IronFrost

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Hey everyone. A good friend of mine asked me to help speed up her computers. She has two, one is running windows 8 and the other is running windows 10. I've got some new ram on order, but I wanted to clean up the registries for her as well. Does anyone know of a good, free registry cleaner that works on both 8 and 10? TIA!
 
"Registry Cleaner for Windows" == 99% Snake Oil.

IMHO, they cause more problems than they fix. More RAM installed, OTOH, should provide a tangible benefit. Especially if she's hitting the swapfile.

Edit: Should have said "pagefile". Swapfile is different, although in the Windows' world, the two terms are often used interchangeably by the less technical.
 
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The responses so far are completely correct. Do not use a registry cleaner. If both computers have mechanical hard drives as i'm sure they do, then i'd run the following 2 programs on them:

https://www.ccleaner.com/

https://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag/

So run CCleaner first as that will delete all temp/junk files in one swoop. Then you can run Auslogics Disk Defrag afterwards.

Just be sure to install each of them slowly as CCleaner might want to install a junkware program.
 
Thanks guys. She's definitely getting a ram upgrade. The computers are only running 4 gigs. My personal computer is only running XP, so I haven't dealt much with 8 and 10. I cleared out a ton of dust bunnies from inside it and it's already running a bit better.
 
I agree 100 %. I use CCleaner regularly and have for years. Nary an issue. Nary! It goes along with Disk Cleanup as an important maintenance app in my systems ( several ssds). We all recognize there are significant numbers of windows/app temp files and registry entries no longer needed which can be deleted. And really,I see no need to naysay this app in particular. The junk left behind in a working machine , especially in the registry after a windows update, can easily be dealt with, the current iteration offers a registry-save feature and the user can actually examine each entry slated for deletion . Nice.
Of course leaving the temp files and superseded registry entries may never affect a system, junk being , well, junk. But I would never leave it. ( I know, space is cheap). But why is it developers have never cleaned up their act and coded the removal of all orphan entries and temp files ? This coding laziness hasn't changed in a million years.
Long Live CCleaner. lol.
 
I had issues with my computer and ended up doing a windows 10 refresh -- my computer works a lot better and seems to be fast again!!

never use a Registry Cleaner!
 
VirtualLarry said:
"Registry Cleaner for Windows" == 99% Snake Oil.
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I agree Ccleaner is a very famous program. But in my opinion a little rustic.
I want to draw attention to Advanced SystemCare Free https://softportal.su/app.php?id=14 is the best set of utilities for optimizing PCs, including cleaning the registry

Programm interface screenshot
iobit_advanced_systemcare_1.png
 
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Personally for my "snake oil" consumption I like to use Glary Utilities Pro, has other tools that I use included.
 
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