Registry Cleaners?

[packercolinl]

Are they worth it?

Do they take out what they should not?

Is a format the only answer?

Which is the best?

I'm trying to maximize my running capacity while acknowledging deep down an upgrade is really the answer. That will be at least another year away.

Any help much appreciated.

Col.

[WebbPA]

You should subscribe to LangaList.  It's mostly junk but every now and then he hits a gem.  Here is his take on  registry cleaners

http://www.informationweek.com/story/sh ... =171203805

The only ones I have tried are ToniArts - too conservative to be worthwhile - and JV16 - excellent but $20.

Another good freebie is NTRegOpt - not a cleaner but a compressor.

http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/

[packercolinl]

Thanks Jim,that gave me what I needed.

I wasn't keen on another format and all the other info. I got off the net wasn't much help really.

I hadn't come across the two recommended but had tried a couple of the others and rejected them for the same reasons as given.

The payware appeals so I'll give it a go.

Many thanks,
Col.

[ozzy72]

I use Registry Mechanic and I think it is brilliant! It is worth cleaning your registry properly (I used to do it by hand until I got RM) and it found just over 1200 problems that I hadn't spotted on its first scan. My PC works better (and faster) these days and I scan about once a week (normally getting about 12 errors that it fixes on average)

[Politically Incorrect]

I have been using Ace Utilities for about 2 years now, they have a 30 day free trial and I find it well worth the cost after the trial runs out, not only cleans registry but also junk, duplicates, wipes deleted files, start up manager etc.

Running it along with CrapCleaner seems to do the job for me

[packercolinl]

Hi Ozzy,I did use RM but it only took out 50 registries and then I had to pay.

All well and good but I am slowly dragging myself back from health and financial despair(it's a big mountain but the first steps up have been taken)so couldn't afford it.

JV16 if I read right gives me 30 days(next pay-woohoo!!)so I'll see how I go.

The other thing with RM was that when I ran it a second time it came up with the original numbers.

If it took 50 out how come it don't add up? Maybe you have to pay to have really delete. Langa basically says the same-I don't know I didn't pay for it!

Thanks,
Col.

[ozzy72]

Aye that would be the free demo version which just shows you the first 50 things it finds. The full version is worth it

[packercolinl]

Well! I just loaded JV16PowerTools2005 and ran it.

It repaired 6 and deleted 143 not required registries and I can say THAT made a difference!!

I suppose it comes down to what you like.

I would have gone for RM but for the fact it really didn't show me a result that was tangible. Anyhow both programs picked up the same number of faults so once again cost will most probably be the default arbitrator.

Cheers,
Col.

[packercolinl]

OK!! Did the whole thing,defrag,adware,dumped cookies,created a restorepoint and ran jv16 on aggressive mode.

Restarted FS and ran harsh weather(definitely kills frame rates for me)-not a flicker. Overall everthing is a lot quicker,startup(cold computer)is better and loading FS was a breeze.

The task manager showed FS running at 75-80% where before it was peaking 100% with heavy weather(I normally select downloaded weather).

All this is subjective of course but since I use this thing every day for at least 7hrs I think it is a valid observation

Wonderful!!

Cheers,
Col.

[Weather_Man]

I use Regcleaner, which is the cleaner in the JV16 tool before it was incorporated with the other stuff and Jouni decided to charge for it.  This is freeware. Works very well.

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Re ... 63771680/1