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Windows XP Registry Software?

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Name: winxp_frustrated
Date: February 6, 2008 at 00:05:59 Pacific
OS: XP
CPU/Ram: Intel Core 2 Duo w/4gigs
Product: Dell
Comment:

Just wondering what everyone's current favorite registry
repair app would be, looking for new software to review.


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Response Number 1
Name: StuartS
Date: February 6, 2008 at 01:52:02 Pacific
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None of them are worth disk space. One thing best avoided if you want to keep your computer running properly.

Stuart


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Response Number 2
Name: alan1000
Date: February 6, 2008 at 03:59:16 Pacific
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Stuart, I can't let that pass!

Regular registry reconditioning is ESSENTIAL to the efficiency and good health of a computer system. It is more important than regular defragging. Fragmentation needs to be incredibly severe before it can do anything worse than cause your system to run more slowly. And with NTFS file systems, it takes a very long time for the effect to become noticeable.

The importance of registry reconditioning is not (as many mistakenly believe) that it removes registry bloat. Spurious registry entries seldom or never amount to more than 1% of the total, so bloat is not an issue. The importance is that some of the spurious entries are quite likely to be pathological.

You know those messages that pop up and show a little flashlight waving around while Windows searches for a file? Those error messages relating to a printer you uninstalled ages ago? That download manager you had trouble uninstalling, and which Windows still insists on trying to use? Remember those famous Win98SE shutdown problems? These are all symptomatic of pathological registry entries which any common-or-garden registry cleaner can fix. (Yes, they can have other causes too, but the registry is the first place to start).

Every registry cleaner seems to be written with slightly different operating parameters, and I usually run two, three, or even four to be sure of doing a thorough job. In my experience, the best are Glarysoft Registry Repair (freeware), Regseeker (freeware), the later versions of Ashampoo WinOptimizer (superseded versions free, current version dirt cheap), and WinASO Registry Optimiser (pay for). All of these can be safely trusted to repair whatever they find without the need to check anything first.

The LEAST effective, I'd say, is Registry Mechanic. It seems to have been going down steadily since RM for Win98. I don't bother with it any more.


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Response Number 3
Name: KevinS.
Date: February 6, 2008 at 05:57:44 Pacific
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I really prefer Ccleaner
This is a Free Program.


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Response Number 4
Name: StuartS
Date: February 6, 2008 at 06:43:46 Pacific
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>> Regular registry reconditioning is ESSENTIAL to the efficiency and good health of a computer system. <<

Rubbish. They tend to do more harm than good. They are either to aggressive and they delete things they shouldn't or the are to conservative and end up doing nothing.

To check the registry and to ensure every entry is valid would take so long as to make it useless so most of them just make basic checks and often end up getting it wrong.

Stuart


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Response Number 5
Name: DJX
Date: February 6, 2008 at 09:09:40 Pacific
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I agree, most registry repair programs just mess up the system.

I do, however, have a program called "Reg Organizer" that I use sometimes to locate keys or do manual edits some times.

That's the program I would reccomend if any, but that's only the second registry edit program I have ever tried so I have not tried a lot.


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Response Number 6
Name: aegis
Date: February 6, 2008 at 09:15:57 Pacific
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I agree with StuartS. Registry cleaners have caused problems. Cleaning up a Registry improves the system preformance 'very little' and certainly not enough to warrant the possible consequences.

I do agree with Alan1000 about defragging. It is highly overrated by a lot of people.


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Response Number 7
Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: February 6, 2008 at 09:57:30 Pacific
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I'm my favorite Registry app.

Life's more painless for the brainless.


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Response Number 8
Name: aegis
Date: February 6, 2008 at 11:29:14 Pacific
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LOL, Jenny. There you go!


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Response Number 9
Name: winxp_frustrated
Date: February 13, 2008 at 13:22:06 Pacific
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We've been suggesting both RegCure and Registry Sweep to
people and have had very few complaints. Was simply
looking for a few more options.

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