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Registry cleaners?

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Can anyone suggest a good registry cleaner? My Windows 2K has been stable enough that I havent had to reinstall in a long time, now Im having system partition size issues and loding times are not good.
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If I want to remove a few entries I like to use this:

RegCleaner
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I wouldn't recommend any. Removing a few or even a few hundred extraneous entries won't solve your problems or improve load times, and you always run the risk of false positives.
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Thanks for the replys and I may still look in to these.

Today I found Microsofts own RegClean which creates a .reg undue file, incase it does something bad.

It removed at about 900 entries and boy are things alot faster.
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I've been using a program called ccleaner lately. It runs fast and it also does things like the disk cleanup in winxp much faster. You can get it here:
http://www.ccleaner.com/

As always, back up your registry before anything.
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Jeff250 wrote:I wouldn't recommend any. Removing a few or even a few hundred extraneous entries won't solve your problems or improve load times, and you always run the risk of false positives.
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In my experience, regcleaners have caused more harm than good. You shouldn't be messing with the registry unless you know what you're doing anyways.
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ccleaner is real good.
Two others are Regscrub and JV16 Power Tools.
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I've used RegCleaner for years on multiple computers and I have yet to run into any problems.
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my System Mechanic V3.8d works nice wonders on my registry and coupled with HIjackThis..... weekly purging keeps me boot-error free
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