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Registry cleaners?

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 1:03 pm
by Nosferatu
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.

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 2:34 pm
by whuppinboy

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 5:17 pm
by Robo
If I want to remove a few entries I like to use this:

RegCleaner

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 6:33 pm
by Jeff250
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.

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 7:58 pm
by Nosferatu
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.

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 10:16 pm
by CritterB
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.

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 11:27 pm
by MD-2389
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.
x2

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.

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 9:46 am
by KtheC'
ccleaner is real good.
Two others are Regscrub and JV16 Power Tools.

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 12:10 pm
by Top Wop
I've used RegCleaner for years on multiple computers and I have yet to run into any problems.

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 2:23 pm
by AceCombat
my System Mechanic V3.8d works nice wonders on my registry and coupled with HIjackThis..... weekly purging keeps me boot-error free