Freeware Registry Cleaner

[Bill Turner]

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

I think we are actually in agreement. I make sure I save my
partition backups on another hard drive. With a boot manager like
BootIt I can boot from the current XP partition or from my backup
or from an earlier backup.

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Agreed.

Bill T.

 

[Bob Adkins]

I know that's a popular way to go but when the HD self-destructs,
you're dead. I don't think you can beat a full HD image saved on a
second drive or DVD. Different strokes.

If your HDD dies, you have to re-install Windows just to run Acronis Tru
Image anyway... don't you?

I like to use nLite to install a slimmed-down version of Windows XP. Instead
of taking 25 minutes to install, it takes less than 15 minutes, including
video drivers and Windows Hotfixes. Most of my software can be dragged and
dropped from another HDD or from a DVD. You will be surprised how many nice
programs are "portable" in that way.

Another approach would be to set up all your hardware and software "golden",
and save the registry with a program like Erunt. Now all you have to do is
re-install a slim version of XP, drag your favorite programs from backup
DVD's or HDD, and then restore the registry.

No matter how you do it, it's all good fun anyway.


Happy New Year!

 

[John]

If your HDD dies, you have to re-install Windows just to run Acronis Tru
Image anyway... don't you?

No - Just use the TrueImage rescue CD to recover the image on second
drive.

 

[Bob Adkins]

No - Just use the TrueImage rescue CD to recover the image on second
drive.

Ah. Cool.

Thank you!

 

[Bill Turner]

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

If your HDD dies, you have to re-install Windows just to run Acronis Tru
Image anyway... don't you?

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No, to restore the image, you boot from a bootable CD which you create
during the Acronis install procedure. It's very quick, too. I can
restore my aprox 3Gb of data onto a 20Gb drive in less than four
minutes. When it's done, Windows is back to normal, exactly where you
left it.

Bill T.

 

[John]

Ah. Cool.

Thank you!

You might find this link handy.

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/forumdisplay.php?s=f68b1ee1872b7b55f407ee298215cf4d&f=65

 

[Frank Selvaggio]

Thanks for sharing this program. I loaded it on my XP and ran it.
Program did as promised and I deleted all the "green" entries. I then had
my wife load it on here XP box and she ran it also but there were no "red"
entries or "green" entries. All the entries showed up in "black".

Have you run into this?

Thanks



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[Ron May]

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Thanks for sharing this program. I loaded it on my XP and ran it.
Program did as promised and I deleted all the "green" entries. I then had
my wife load it on here XP box and she ran it also but there were no "red"
entries or "green" entries. All the entries showed up in "black".

Have you run into this?

Never observed that using the "Clean the Registry" option. The last
line always shows up in red or green. If you're using another option
(e.g., searching for invalid startup entries) they are NOT in red and
green. Pretty much you should only delete entries using other options
if you're absolutely sure that's what you want to do.

 

[Frank Selvaggio]

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Never observed that using the "Clean the Registry" option. The last
line always shows up in red or green. If you're using another option
(e.g., searching for invalid startup entries) they are NOT in red and
green. Pretty much you should only delete entries using other options
if you're absolutely sure that's what you want to do.

Thanks but this is coming up in the "Clean The Registry" option. What really
makes it odd is it is only on one of two machines both running XP Home. Tried
to send the author an email in regards to it but must me abandonware because the
email bounced.

 

[Ron May]

Thanks but this is coming up in the "Clean The Registry" option. What really
makes it odd is it is only on one of two machines both running XP Home. Tried
to send the author an email in regards to it but must me abandonware because the
email bounced.

I searched Google groups and apparently, this issue was mentioned
earlier this year, but it was in connection with Win98 and V1.35 of
Regseeker. It didn't seem that any conclusion was reached at the
time.

Anyone else have something to add or suggest?

 

[J-Walker]

I just tried RegScrubXP v3.25 with no negative effects. It found 54
junk keys missed by RegSeeker. I fixed (removed) them all.

I plan to use both of them from here on out.

DL from MajorGeeks.