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is there any way of cleaning my registry for free? i've tried scans off reg.
cleaners and they all say i have around 200 problems but i am flat broke and can't afford to pay for a clean until the end of the month. can anybody help me please? thanks -- Message posted via WindowsKB.com http://www.windowskb.com/Uwe/Forums....neral/200605/1 |
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There is NO such thing as a good registry cleaner!!!!
The only good tool is knowledge. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "stompauk via WindowsKB.com" u21584@uwe wrote in message news:5ff09ec009897@uwe... is there any way of cleaning my registry for free? i've tried scans off reg. cleaners and they all say i have around 200 problems but i am flat broke and can't afford to pay for a clean until the end of the month. can anybody help me please? thanks -- Message posted via WindowsKB.com http://www.windowskb.com/Uwe/Forums....neral/200605/1 |
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In this group Noel Paton wrote in message
There is NO such thing as a good registry cleaner!!!! The only good tool is knowledge. And for that particular task: a lot of patience. |
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there are a large number of those applications fake
registry/spyware/av/security programs I call them ScareWare they perform a 'free' scan and use supposed results to try to scare you into paying money for something that 1.doesnt work 2.doesnt work and 3.doesnt work. the problems that they find, often only exist in the program doing the scan, so the maker can claim after you pay the money that they are gone If there were any real problems in the registry, not simple orphaned keys but an actual problem, you would know. There would be BSODs all the time, or the pc would not boot, or file associations would fail. If you arent having such problems there isnt a fault in the registry. If any automated registry cleaner makes a mistake, (and they all do eventually by removing the wrong key) you get BSODs, the pc will not boot, file associations fail, Hmmmmmmmmm sounds like the cure is the worse as the disease, NOT a good idea. better is boot to dos scanreg /opt scanreg /fix scanreg /opt /fix scanreg /fix /opt or any other chosen combination of fix and opt swiches for dos scanreg to remove many of the orphans & recreate the registry -- - Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de spybot http://security.kolla.de AVG free antivirus http://www.grisoft.com Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.activescan.com Panda online AntiSpyware Scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/spyware/test/ Catalog of removal tools (1) http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/ Catalog of removal tools (2) http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/n...aspx?CID=40387 Trouble Shooting guide to Windows http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/ Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before use Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters _ "stompauk via WindowsKB.com" u21584@uwe wrote in message news:5ff09ec009897@uwe... is there any way of cleaning my registry for free? i've tried scans off reg. cleaners and they all say i have around 200 problems but i am flat broke and can't afford to pay for a clean until the end of the month. can anybody help me please? thanks -- Message posted via WindowsKB.com http://www.windowskb.com/Uwe/Forums....neral/200605/1 |
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I think the advise of the MVP's is to be heeded, however, I have, on
occassion, during the last 4 years, used a little free product called RegSeeker to look for specific things in the resistry, like the names of programs I've uninstalled but pieces were left behind by the sloppy uninstall, and other things I did not want living in the registry forever. It has worked fine, but you do have to look at every thing it finds to make sure it is something you really want gone, even though RegSeeker does create a back-up entry, I believe the product is nothing more than a mask to create a more user-friendly version of the Registry commands that are mentioned elsewhere. I'm no MVP, I just programmed the big mothers for 35 years. PC's are so much more fun. |
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Hi MBI and all,
After playing around with various "Reg Cleaners", I tend to agree with the MVP's. On a completely clean install of XP, one particular cleaner suggested numerous problems with my Registry. The only one I've found that half-way (or better) works is JV-16 Powertools--but you better be darn careful before you use it. -- Curt http://dundats.mvps.org/ http://dundats.proboards27.com/index.cgi http://www.aumha.org/ "MBI" wrote in message ups.com... I think the advise of the MVP's is to be heeded, however, I have, on occassion, during the last 4 years, used a little free product called RegSeeker to look for specific things in the resistry, like the names of programs I've uninstalled but pieces were left behind by the sloppy uninstall, and other things I did not want living in the registry forever. It has worked fine, but you do have to look at every thing it finds to make sure it is something you really want gone, even though RegSeeker does create a back-up entry, I believe the product is nothing more than a mask to create a more user-friendly version of the Registry commands that are mentioned elsewhere. I'm no MVP, I just programmed the big mothers for 35 years. PC's are so much more fun. |
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