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Registry Cleaners
I recently have noticed a lot of registry cleaners. Are these any better
than the registry fixer in Winsows98, or something that would do a lot better job to clean-up and stop so many hangs and errors. Bellmeister. |
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No Registry cleaner is a safe thing for anyone to use who doesn't know what they
are looking at. None of them are infallible. Some are good tools to have in one's arsenal as a pro or talented aficionado, always remembering that each and every proposed "fix" may or may not be a safe move and should be investigated and "sanity-checked" before acting. That said, assuming that the first thing you do is to learn how to back up and restore backups of the Registry, it's always worth a try. Just remember that if you use Scanreg to make backups, and you make several, you may end up not being able to get back to a state precious to when the entire exercise began. How can I say this more plainly? Be very, very careful, think five times before "fixing" something. And no, I won't recommend any. Haven't been checking them out lately, so I don't know which ones are safest anymore. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User "Bell Moore" wrote in message ... I recently have noticed a lot of registry cleaners. Are these any better than the registry fixer in Winsows98, or something that would do a lot better job to clean-up and stop so many hangs and errors. Bellmeister. |
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Right on!
The best - and (really the only) way to effectively clean the registry, is thru a clean install of Windows! Nuff said! OK, I'm off the podium now too. Thanks for sharing it, Gary :-) Gary S. Terhune wrote: No Registry cleaner is a safe thing for anyone to use who doesn't know what they are looking at. None of them are infallible. Some are good tools to have in one's arsenal as a pro or talented aficionado, always remembering that each and every proposed "fix" may or may not be a safe move and should be investigated and "sanity-checked" before acting. That said, assuming that the first thing you do is to learn how to back up and restore backups of the Registry, it's always worth a try. Just remember that if you use Scanreg to make backups, and you make several, you may end up not being able to get back to a state precious to when the entire exercise began. How can I say this more plainly? Be very, very careful, think five times before "fixing" something. And no, I won't recommend any. Haven't been checking them out lately, so I don't know which ones are safest anymore. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User "Bell Moore" wrote in message ... I recently have noticed a lot of registry cleaners. Are these any better than the registry fixer in Winsows98, or something that would do a lot better job to clean-up and stop so many hangs and errors. Bellmeister. |
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"Bell Moore" wrote:
I recently have noticed a lot of registry cleaners. Are these any better than the registry fixer in Winsows98, or something that would do a lot better job to clean-up and stop so many hangs and errors. Bellmeister. A regsitry cleaner can do a fair bit more than the Scanreg utility that comes with Windows, especially with respect to removing leftover registry entries from programs that have been uninstalled. While no registry cleaner is 100% failure proof I have had good results with RegSeeker from http://www.snapfiles.com/get/regseeker.html One thing with RegSeeker (and possibly other registry cleaners as well) and that is that it will usually take multiple passes to really clean up the registry. I usually keep running RegSeeker until it finds fewer than 20 items to remove. This usually takes 3 passes, but sometimes it can be as many as 5. And make sure that you create a manual backup of your registry just before you run RegSeeker or any other registry cleaner. Use Start - Run and enter SCANREGW /BACKUP in the dialog box. Good luck Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." |
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"Ron Martell" wrote in message ... [snip] And make sure that you create a manual backup of your registry just before you run RegSeeker or any other registry cleaner. Use Start - Run and enter SCANREGW /BACKUP in the dialog box. Good luck Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." Just adding to Ron's comment about making a manual backup: Make sure you know HOW to restore the Registry from the backup before using a Registry cleaner. PS: I also use RegSeeker and don't have problems with it. |
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