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Message 1578988 - Posted: 28 Sep 2014, 8:18:57 UTC

This may be a bit outside of our usual scope but:

Is there a reliable/safe registry cleaner that you could/would recommend that is free or not expensive?

Is it necessary at all?

Thanks, I hope I'm not trying your patience with my incessant questions.
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Message 1579061 - Posted: 28 Sep 2014, 14:29:20 UTC
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There are many. CCleaner is a decent one. There is free one the IT people use on our machine at work which is pretty good. However I don't recall the name right now.

It can't hurt to clean the gunk out of the registry every now and then. If you are not uninstalling things very often there isn't much need to use one.
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Message 1579077 - Posted: 28 Sep 2014, 15:07:21 UTC - in response to Message 1579061.  

thanks Hal
I may give it a try.
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Message 1579304 - Posted: 29 Sep 2014, 6:50:06 UTC - in response to Message 1579077.  

If your goal is faster Registry - I use (on Windows XP):

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

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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897426.aspx
 


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Message 1579361 - Posted: 29 Sep 2014, 13:07:32 UTC - in response to Message 1579077.  

thanks Hal
I may give it a try.

Looks like our IT staff is using CCleaner now. I guess the old software we were using Easy Cleaner was getting a bit dated. Not having been updated in about 9 years. lol
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Message 1579376 - Posted: 29 Sep 2014, 14:01:51 UTC

I use CCleaner too but there are another good free program http://www.wisecleaner.com/wiseregistrycleanerfree.html who have few aditional interesting features like register defrag.
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Message 1579391 - Posted: 29 Sep 2014, 14:54:16 UTC - in response to Message 1579376.  

thanks Juan,
I especially like the free ones when they are recommended like this.
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Message 1579392 - Posted: 29 Sep 2014, 14:55:47 UTC - in response to Message 1579304.  

thanks BilBg,
But I use win 7 and 8.1 so I would be hesitant to try it.
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Message 1579720 - Posted: 30 Sep 2014, 0:57:06 UTC - in response to Message 1579392.  

Did you read the page?
 


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Message 1580203 - Posted: 30 Sep 2014, 21:12:45 UTC - in response to Message 1579720.  

Yes and where did I go wrong?
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Message 1580374 - Posted: 1 Oct 2014, 6:30:50 UTC - in response to Message 1580203.  

When I say "I use (on Windows XP)" it means "it is tested by me on XP", it does not mean "it is only for XP"
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