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I have used RegSeeker (free) from
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/regseeker.html and it has worked well for
me.
As others have said, there is less need to clean the Windows XP
registry than there was with Windows 95/98/Me but situations still do
arise where it is needed. Uninstalling Norton products is one
example where there is a ton of crud left behind in the registry.
Other situations where I have needed regsitry cleaners include
recovering from botched/crashed program installs where system restore
was not a viable option. And some months ago I had an additional
hard drive die on me with some major apps installed on it (Visual
Studio for example). I decided not to replace the drive or to
reinstall those apps so I used RegSeeker to remove well over 15,000
registry entries relating to the non-existant apps.
Good luck
Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada