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Justin Corcuera
What is the best freeware registry cleaner? EasyCleaner, RegSeeker,
RegClean, RegscrubXP? Are there any better ones out there?
RegClean, RegscrubXP? Are there any better ones out there?
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Bloned
Justin said:
Untill a month ago I used the last freeware version of Regcleaner, switched
to Regseeker and it found 80 entries that Regcleaner missed, so I'm sticking
with Regseeker.
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Podz
I've been using EasyCleaner, and it usually finds 10-20 entries toBloned said:
delete (weekly).
Following your post, I've just d/l'd and run RegSeeker.
It finds a whopping 1,373 entries to delete.
I'm running WinXP Home.
Is that number okay to delete ?
P.
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Jordan
Podz said:
A lot of people swear by RegSeeker but I still think it is over aggressive.
With registry cleaners, more is not necessarily better, especially in XP. If
you're not having any problems with EasyCleaner, I would stick with it.
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Jim Byrd
In my experience all of these Reg cleaners, even the best, are fraught with
danger. I advise against using them except in one specific instance, that
is when you have one that is capable of doing specific Reg searches, and you
NEED (not just WANT) to remove the remaining traces of something that didn't
get uninstalled correctly. (and you didn't have foresight enough to install
it using Total Uninstall, http://www.geocities.com/ggmartau/tu.html or
direct dwnld here: http://files.webattack.com/localdl834/tun234.zip, in the
first place.)
If you must screw around with your Registry, then at least get Erunt/Erdnt,
and run it before you do the Reg clean. You'll then have a true restore
available to you. Read below to see why you might not just using the Reg
cleaner's restore:
Get Erunt here for all NT-based computers including XP:
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/index.htm I've set it up to
take a scheduled backup each night at 12:01AM on a weekly round-robin basis,
and a Monthly on the 1st of each month. See here for how to set that up:
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/erunt.txt, and for some
useful information about this subject.
This program is one of the best things around - saved my butt on many
occasions, and will also run very nicely from a DOS prompt (in case you've
done something that won't let you boot any more and need to revert to a
previous Registry) IF you're FAT32 OR have a DOS startup disk with NTFS
write drivers in an NTFS system. (There is also a way using the Recovery
Console to get back to being "bootable" even without separate DOS write NTFS
drivers, after which you can do a "normal" Erdnt restore.) (BTW, it also
includes a Registry defragger program). Free, and very, very highly
recommended.
FYI, quoting from the above document:
"Note: The "Export registry" function in Regedit is USELESS (!) to make a
complete backup of the registry. Neither does it export the whole registry
(for example, no information from the "SECURITY" hive is saved), nor can the
exported file be used later to replace the current registry with the old
one. Instead, if you re-import the file, it is
merged with the current registry, leaving you with an absolute mess of old
and new registry keys.
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danger. I advise against using them except in one specific instance, that
is when you have one that is capable of doing specific Reg searches, and you
NEED (not just WANT) to remove the remaining traces of something that didn't
get uninstalled correctly. (and you didn't have foresight enough to install
it using Total Uninstall, http://www.geocities.com/ggmartau/tu.html or
direct dwnld here: http://files.webattack.com/localdl834/tun234.zip, in the
first place.)
If you must screw around with your Registry, then at least get Erunt/Erdnt,
and run it before you do the Reg clean. You'll then have a true restore
available to you. Read below to see why you might not just using the Reg
cleaner's restore:
Get Erunt here for all NT-based computers including XP:
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/index.htm I've set it up to
take a scheduled backup each night at 12:01AM on a weekly round-robin basis,
and a Monthly on the 1st of each month. See here for how to set that up:
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/erunt.txt, and for some
useful information about this subject.
This program is one of the best things around - saved my butt on many
occasions, and will also run very nicely from a DOS prompt (in case you've
done something that won't let you boot any more and need to revert to a
previous Registry) IF you're FAT32 OR have a DOS startup disk with NTFS
write drivers in an NTFS system. (There is also a way using the Recovery
Console to get back to being "bootable" even without separate DOS write NTFS
drivers, after which you can do a "normal" Erdnt restore.) (BTW, it also
includes a Registry defragger program). Free, and very, very highly
recommended.
FYI, quoting from the above document:
"Note: The "Export registry" function in Regedit is USELESS (!) to make a
complete backup of the registry. Neither does it export the whole registry
(for example, no information from the "SECURITY" hive is saved), nor can the
exported file be used later to replace the current registry with the old
one. Instead, if you re-import the file, it is
merged with the current registry, leaving you with an absolute mess of old
and new registry keys.
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Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP
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Bloned
Podz said:
The entries are coloured in green and red, the green supposed to mean "save
to remove" the red meaning "be careful what you're doing, check them first".
My experience is that you can safely remove the green entries and should
take a closer look at the red ones before chosing them to be removed or not.
But I've never encountered any problems removing all of them (both green and
red) on my win98SE system. You should always make a backup before deleting
any entries, so you can go back to a previous setting if anything goes
wrong. Don't know about Regseeker in combination with XP, as I know nothing
about XP.
HTH
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Bob Adkins
I still like JV16 Power Tools, last free version.
It classifies the bad registry entries, and makes them easy to sort. You can
filter out the few "dangerous" entries, and just remove the safer ones. The
scanner is still the fastest I have come across.
I do like RegSeeker, EasyCleaner, and HDCleaner as well.
You can run these programs in any order, and all will catch many invalid
registry entries the others missed.
Bob
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*ProteanThread*
Podz said:
Yes, Because EasyCleaner isn't as thorough. It only seems to go after the
MRU's (history) from what I found. RegSeeker is probably the best IMHO. I
like it because its a no install (doesnt add extra crap to your registry
just to clean your registry). But I found using Microsofts RegClean
(someone told me it does nearly the same thing as EasyCleaner so not sure)
and Microsofts RegMaid (looks where most don't) work well when used side by
side with RegSeeker.
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Podz
As a followup, I used Erunt, then Regseeker. Rebooted, and so far so good 
And things are noticeably quicker too !
Thanks for the advice - much appreciated.
P.
And things are noticeably quicker too !
Thanks for the advice - much appreciated.
P.
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REM
Regseeker is great. There were some severe complications running it on
systems with Norton*.* installed awhile back.
Make backups!
Otherwise, it strips all the unnecessary entries in a flash.
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Sweet Andy Licious
Thank you, Jim Byrd, for the excellent link and advice.
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NonDisputandum.com
Regsupreme (or jv 16 PowerTools) if you don't have an old copy of
Registry Cleaner
more info:
http://www.nondisputandum.com/html/registry___system.html
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Jim Byrd
YW, Sweet Andy - glad you found it useful.
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Bob Adkins
Agreed the reg cleaners can make mistakes.
Most of them back up every entry they clean, so you can always restore 1 or
all entries you cleaned.
Bob
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NonDisputandum.com said:
Trialware
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NonDisputandum.com
Yes,.. and fully functiopnal for a month. There are other that are
genue freeware like Be Clean and Crap Cleaner but they do not do half
the job when it comes to registry cleaning.
That's why I said: "Regsupreme (or jv 16 PowerTools) if you don't have
an old copy of Registry Cleaner (what was freeware)"
I explain that clearly on my webpage...
http://www.nondisputandum.com/html/registry___system.html
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NonDisputandum.com said:
I'm sure you explained it clearly on your website, but this is still ACF
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Bob Adkins
Yarg... it just hosed my MS Office installation. If I don't re-install it,
the Secretary of War is going to give me that look again.
Bob
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Bloned
Bob said:
Wrong name above the quoted text Bob, but I'll forgive you, here's a link
http://www.openoffice.org/
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Querulantus
Jordan said:
If you you want to be on the extremely safe site, delete only the
"green finds" in Regseeker. However, I never had any problems with
Regseeker in W'98, 2K and XP, over the 1 and 1/2 year I have been
using it on an almost daily basis, so I'll stick with it. Sometimes
Regscrub and HDCleaner, which I run weekly, find entries which
Regseeker overlooked. I delete those as well, and never experienced
any problem. Occasionally a file association is lost, but that's
easily restored, and it's really my own fault as you can select what
you want to delete.
Querulantus