alternative for regclean.exe?

[lee]

regclean.exe is no longer being offered for downloading
because of problems that people encounter due to it. is
there and alternative to regclean.exe? any suggestions or
similar applications?

 

[Steven L Umbach]

In W2K, depending on the situation you can use repair installation,
last known good configuration, restoring the System State [if you have it
backed up], use Recovery Console to restore saved copy of the registry, use
regedt32 to save/restore registry, or possible resetting local security
policy back to default which will reset a lot of registry settings. ---
Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=240363 -- highly recommended.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q307852 -- same for
W2K
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;313222 -- same for
W2K
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;238359
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=322755 -- regedt32 procedures.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;229716 -- to
manualy restore registry.

 

[Karl Levinson [x y], mvp]

IMHO regclean never was a registry fix. I've never had it fix a problem.
It removes registry entries without replacing them. And AFAIK it only
scanned certain portions of the registry, such as the portion involving OLE.
I might recommend uninstall and reinstall, or perhaps a solution that backs
up your system state such as NTBACKUP with Windows 2000 and XP.

 

[Pete]

Actually, I found regclean very useful in Win95. Several times it
restored the computer from serious problems. Worth looking at the
free progrman called RegCleaner at:

http://www.vtoy.fi/jv16/shtml/regcleaner.shtml

Which I have also found very useful in Win2k when cleaning up bad
uninstals.

Pete