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04-14-2006, 05:02 AM
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Registry Clean-up
Just wondering if anyone out there has much experience with registry cleanup utilities, eg. Registry Mechanic - how necessary are they? Does one ask for problems using such utilities? Any recommendations as to good-better-best?
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04-14-2006, 08:40 PM
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I personally never use them nor recommend them. I see absolutely no need for them, but if the utility in question has a good reputation and makes backups of everything it changes, you can try it.
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04-14-2006, 10:09 PM
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I've used Registry Healer for several years and it works good for me. It's not free, unlike the one that glc has been recommending. He recommends CCleaner.
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04-15-2006, 08:12 AM
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Thanks for the input. I saw CCleaner as a trial download from PC World website. I am starting to experience slower boots, and I know there's probably a bunch of garbage in the registry, but I'm a little leery of messing with it.
Do you guys reformat periodically to achieve the same effect? TA |
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04-15-2006, 08:21 AM
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I re-format twice a year just to keep things humming along. The only time I ever used a registry cleaner it removed something that caused many problems and I needed to nuke & pave.
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04-15-2006, 08:37 AM
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I never reformat unless a hard drive fails. Just doing regular maintenance to keep things cleaned out is all I find necessary. All but one of my pc's is running on the original Windows install. Those are XP Home, XP Pro, and 2000 Pro.
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04-15-2006, 02:26 PM
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Shiro Usagi
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I've been using the CCleaner Registry cleanup tool for about half a year and haven't had any problems with it.
I just ran it on a friend's computer that was opening programs a little sluggishly and now the computer is running a little snappier.  Cricket
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05-08-2006, 05:18 PM
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I use CCleaner. It works and its great. I've only reformatted once when I was having some boot problems.
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05-08-2006, 06:13 PM
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I just downloaded ccleaner this morning and ran it on two of my own systems as well as a customer computer. It works excellent, has a provision for backing up the registry before any changes are made and prompts you on just about every step before deleting anything.
All systems are running much nicer as a result. I highly recommend it. -Kev
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