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| Thread ID: 49735 | 2004-09-29 01:35:00 | opinions about registry cleaners | Hotkiwi (5870) | Press F1 |
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| 276615 | 2004-09-29 01:35:00 | Smart people leave their fingers from the registry. Still i gets clogged up with mess. Do you think that Windows is well enough taking care of this or is there a place for regsirty cleaners? Proghrammes like Registry Mechanic are very popular at the moment, be it the free version or the more extended pay-for. But looking at the files to potentially delete, one always has his doubts........... Get a cleaner or forget about it? Cheers Johan North shore City (yeah yeah, we want our motorcycles to use the buslanes) |
Hotkiwi (5870) | ||
| 276616 | 2004-09-29 01:43:00 | Yes,they have a place,just make sure a backup of the registry is done first,and you know how to whack it back into place in the event of a meltdown.And don't trust an app that finds many many more reduntant entries then other apps. I still use the long in the tooth Regcleaner and while some suggest its outdated and will cause greif im yet to have a single issue caused by using it,and I've run it on hundreds of comps. |
metla (154) | ||
| 276617 | 2004-09-29 02:20:00 | > I still use the long in the tooth Regcleaner and > while some suggest its outdated and will cause greif > im yet to have a single issue caused by using it,and > I've run it on hundreds of comps. I also still use (and recommend) Regcleaner. It's always done the job - why should that change now? Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 276618 | 2004-09-29 02:22:00 | Because it was designed for win98,the software enviorment has progressed (or changed at least) drasticly since then. | metla (154) | ||
| 276619 | 2004-09-29 04:58:00 | For some time now I have used EASYCLEAN from Toni Arts and every time I did a registry scan it told me I had about 12 invalid entries which I would delete. Then I decided to try Registryheal and the first scan I did it told me I had 748 invalid entries. Yes seven hundred and fortyeight . I nearly went into a tailspin. The programme allowed me to examine each entry which I proceeded to do, but a lot of it did not make much sense to a non geek like me. So I stewed on it for a week and then as I had a complete image backup on an external drive, I took the bull by the horns and deleted all 748 invalid entries. Then tried most programmes and the computer certainly seemed to go faster and no problems reared their ugly heads. The moral of the story: Some programmes work very well and some don't seem to do the job properly. I am a keen photographer and since the advent of digital cameras have almost given up film. Now I noticed that a lot of the invalid registry entries seemed to mention the titles of pictures and I am wondering that if each time I do something like editing a picture it makes an entry in the registry and does'nt delete it when the editing is done. Something to think about. | heaton (3697) | ||
| 276620 | 2004-09-29 05:31:00 | Heaton: Most likely all those entries were MRU entries, ie Most Recently Used entries for all the files and pictures you were operating on. MRU entries can mount up to hundreds or thousands very quickly. There is a small program called mrublaster which gets rid of just these from the registry: www.javacoolsoftware.com |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 276621 | 2004-09-29 06:32:00 | Personally I think the best way to clean up the registry is to do it yourself. However most users do not seem to want to learn about the registry enough to make doing it yourself a safe proposition so using a program to do it is the better option for the standard user. I tried and quite liked a program called Mcafee Uninstaller once upon a time and that is the one I would recommend having a look at. It has a 'quickclean" function which scans the registry for deletable entries which I have never seen make a mistake and it has a far more advanced tool called 'powerclean' which advanced users would find pretty good too work with. The registry is not really that difficult to learn properly though and it is well worth the time to do so, so you can get in there and play to your hearts content. |
John Grieve (367) | ||
| 276622 | 2004-09-29 08:29:00 | Further to Terry's comment on MRUs if you are running Ad-Aware SE Personal Build 1.05 (freebee) tick Search for neglible risk entries, on Scan Complete bottom left will list Neglible Objects, these are invariably MRUs which can be deleted. For Registry cleaning use JV16 Power Tools. |
FrankS (257) | ||
| 276623 | 2004-09-29 09:29:00 | Thanks Terry - it found 170 ! > There is a small program called mrublaster which gets > rid of just these from the registry: > > www.javacoolsoftware.com > |
TonyF (246) | ||
| 276624 | 2004-09-29 19:51:00 | Another option is Registry Healer. www.fixregistry.com Works for me. |
Fishb8 (484) | ||
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