Clean It Time

I get the ads for the registry cleaner and wondered if they are worth it.

Registry cleaners will clean your registry, increasing performance slightly, but also making your system less prone to crashes.

These programs can help you clean your registry for free. I personally like CCleaner and Advanced WindowsCare Personal because they do more than just clean my registry.

1) CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system – allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. CCleaner also fixes your registry. But the best part is that it’s fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware.
http://www.ccleaner.com/

2) Advanced WindowsCare Personal is a comprehensive PC care utility that takes a one-click approach to help protect, repair, and optimize your computer.
http://www.iobit.com/

3) Eusing Free Registry Cleaner is a free registry repair software that allows you to safely clean and repair registry problems.
http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_cleaner/registry_cleaner.htm

4) Registry Distiller is a free registry cleaner that will optimize your system by removing obsolete and incorrect information from the registry, resulting in a faster computer that is less prone to errors.
http://www.codeode.com/registrydistiller/

5) TweakNow RegCleaner Standard is a free registry cleaner that will scour your system’s registry for useless/unneeded registry entries and optionally remove these for you. These entries are often left behind after the removal of software, cluttering the registry and possibly hindering your system’s overall performance.
http://www.tweaknow.com/RegCleaner.html

i need one fast as i used a trial version and it found over 700 faults but it did not repair then so i need a free registry cleaner that will clean and repair my pc. does anyone know of any site?

CCleaner is great. CCleaner and Advanced WindowsCare Personal do more than just clean the registry but there are other free ones to choose from:

1) CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system – allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. CCleaner also fixes your registry. But the best part is that it’s fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware.
http://www.ccleaner.com/

2) Advanced WindowsCare Personal is a comprehensive PC care utility that takes a one-click approach to help protect, repair, and optimize your computer.
http://www.iobit.com/

3) Eusing Free Registry Cleaner is a free registry repair software that allows you to safely clean and repair registry problems.
http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_clea…

4) Registry Distiller is a free registry cleaner that will optimize your system by removing obsolete and incorrect information from the registry, resulting in a faster computer that is less prone to errors.
http://www.codeode.com/registrydistiller…

5) TweakNow RegCleaner Standard is a free registry cleaner that will scour your system’s registry for useless/unneeded registry entries and optionally remove these for you. These entries are often left behind after the removal of software, cluttering the registry and possibly hindering your system’s overall performance.
http://www.tweaknow.com/RegCleaner.html

I have registry fis 32 bit,and I liked the way it helped clear all of the errors. Is there one out there? I also used cyber scrub. Is there a 64 bit version and what do you think these 2 programs will cost. Verry confused lol ejeaon.

These programs can help you clean your registry for free. I personally like CCleaner because it does more than just clean my registry.

1) CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system – allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. CCleaner also fixes your registry. But the best part is that it’s fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware.
http://www.ccleaner.com/

2) Advanced WindowsCare Personal is a comprehensive PC care utility that takes a one-click approach to help protect, repair, and optimize your computer.
http://www.iobit.com/

3) Eusing Free Registry Cleaner is a free registry repair software that allows you to safely clean and repair registry problems.
http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_cleaner/registry_cleaner.htm

4) Registry Distiller is a free registry cleaner that will optimize your system by removing obsolete and incorrect information from the registry, resulting in a faster computer that is less prone to errors.
http://www.codeode.com/registrydistiller/

5) TweakNow RegCleaner Standard is a free registry cleaner that will scour your system’s registry for useless/unneeded registry entries and optionally remove these for you. These entries are often left behind after the removal of software, cluttering the registry and possibly hindering your system’s overall performance.
http://www.tweaknow.com/RegCleaner.html

My computer seems to get slower and slower. A friend told me I need a registry cleaner. Will that really help? If so, where can I get a good free registry cleaner to do the job?

The short answer is: Yes, your computer will run better if you occasionally clean your Windows system registry. But first, let’s define exactly what the registry is…
In layman’s terms, the Windows Registry is a hideously complex ball of string, rubber bands, duct tape and bailing wire that’s supposed to keep track of Windows system settings, your hardware configuration, user preferences, file associations, system policies, and installed software. In slightly more technical terms, the registry is a database in which Windows keeps track of relationships between hardware, software and the operating system.
It was supposed to be an improvement on the collection of simple text-based INI files that stored Windows configuration settings, but too many pocket protectors got involved in the design and the result was an over-engineered, over-complicated mess that makes Windows much more fragile and harder for users to maintain. Since it is a single point of failure, problems with the Registry can make a Windows system slower, less reliable, unbootable, and in extreme cases can only be fixed by reinstalling the operating system.
That’s why you need to use a registry cleaner every once in a while.
It’s not uncommon for the registry to grow very large over time, which tends to slow down the computer’s startup and can make it unstable. You can end up with lots of unnecessary registry entries that are created when you install or remove software and hardware on your computer. Sometimes an "orphaned" registry entry can confuse Windows during startup and cause a delay. In general, slimming down your registry will make Windows run faster.
The REGEDIT command will allow you to view and edit the registry, but if you don’t know what you’re doing under the hood, just put down that wrench and back away slowly. You can do a lot of damage to your system by flailing about with a registry editor. Specialized programs exist to examine the registry, compare what’s in there to what’s really on your system, and either correct or delete erroneous entries.
REGCLEAN is a utility program included in Windows 95 and Windows 98. This program is no longer officially supported by Microsoft, but some users report that it works fine on Windows XP systems. However, I don’t recommend that it be used on XP, because the structure of the registry is different in XP than it was in earlier incarnations of Windows.
RegSeeker is a highly rated (and free) registry cleaner that I like. RegSeeker is an aggressive cleaner, and in some cases may delete registry entries that are needed. Some RegSeeker users have reported that using a RegSeeker exclusion file can prevent it from making erroneous deletions.
Another popular free registry fixer/cleaner is CCleaner, which does some additional things like cleaning up your browser’s temp files and deleting unneeded files. CCleaner has a reputation for being less aggressive so may be a better choice for non-expert users who want a free registry cleaner.
Uniblue RegistryBooster is not free (US$29), but seems to be the most advanced tool in the class. Some 3rd-party tests have shown that it improves both boot time and application launch time. In the past, I’ve read about people with problems uninstalling the Uniblue Registry Booster software after downloading a trial version. To my knowledge, the company has resolved those problems. If you are a non-techie, I’d recommend this tool over the others.
There other registry cleaners available, some free and some not. If you want to play the field, read some reviews by reputable sources like CNET or PCWorld before you install. If you’re not careful, you can get an adware or virus-laden registry cleaner wannabe that claims to do the job, but will have nasty side effects.
A Few Caveats…
Before using any registry cleaner, I highly recommend that you create a System Restore restore point, and even better, do a full registry backup with the ERUNT utility. In some cases, aggressive registry cleaning can remove entries required for some programs to operate.
I should mention that technology experts have differing opinions on the value of registry cleaners. Some adamantly claim that they cannot possibly improve system performance. Others say they might help a little, but point out that in some cases they can cause damage as well. And of course others believe they can offer significant benefits. I tend to be in the latter camp, but recommend caution when using a registry cleaner. Choose the tool that suits your level of technical expertise, and do your preparatory backups.
Making Windows Faster
I should also mention that there are lots of other things that can cause your computer to bog down. Viruses, spyware, a hard drive that needs defragmenting, and other factors can contribute to the problem. In my article Make Windows XP Run Faster! I share my special recipe to clean the icky goo out of your computer’s pipes, so Windows will start quicker, run more reliably, and go

Spyware can be described in simple terms as software that performs certain functions covertly on your computer such as collecting personal information, changing the configuration of the computer, and advertising. Spyware is often associated with advertising software or software that generates pop-up ads on the screen when the computer is connected to the Internet. Now this does not mean that all Spyware is malicious and causes damage to you by collecting personal information from your system. However, all Spyware do make changes to the system and cause the registry to grow substantially and ultimately cause the system to slow down to a crawl. The Spyware must be removed with the best Spyware removal utilities such as free Microsoft Spyware Removal Tool.

Is Cleaning The Registry Really Important?

Yes. Anti-Spyware searches and detects any Spyware operating in the background of the system. It is designed to detect any program that is operating and yet is not associated with the running programs on the system. Anti-Spyware can then remove such Spyware and secure the computer. Many freeAdware Spyware removal tools also clean the registry to some extent. However, Spyware can create entries in the registry in hundreds or even thousands of places. These entries will stay hidden until the Spyware discovers that the exe file is missing. Then the registry entries start to operate and download the necessary files, secretly, from the Internet and the Spyware begins to operate again. Some free Spyware and Adware removal programs can go into the registry and pull out all the entries associated with programs that have been removed from the system.

Are These Spyware and Adware Removal Software Easy And Inexpensive?

Spyware virus removal software is very easy to operate. In fact, they just take a few seconds to download with a fast Internet connection. Installation takes just a few seconds and you are ready to go. Spyware virus removal software such as free Spyware and Adware removal is very effective and has all the safety features of a good Spyware removal utility. Along with this a good PC spyware cleaner can create a back up of the existing registry, which can be restored in case something goes wrong with the cleaning process.

Use Spyware Removal Tools Often

Spyware removal software should be run of the system at intervals of two to three weeks manually to clean and maintain the system. Many free Spyware programs do a great job and keep the system running perfectly. When you discover that the system has slowed down to an unusual pace run the anti-Spyware and you will be sure to come up with a few hundred if not thousands of infected files that need to be healed by the software.

Arvind
http://www.articlesbase.com/security-articles/spyware-can-cause-you-and-your-system-irreparable-damage-68900.html

When a Windows computer has been used for some time it tends to slow down,freeze sometimes and occasionally even crash completely. It may take months or years depending on how much you use your machine but it will happen.

Why is this so? The reason is nearly always a corrupt registry which has become bloated with data and useless files. Every time you install or uninstall a program incompletely, fragments of the program will remain in the registry causing it to become choked with data after some time.

The registry is something which all Windows PCs have. It is basically a database of entries which the operating system uses to run the machine. When it becomes bloated with too many fragments of data the operating system has to find its way through all the excess entries to locate the data it needs to run the computer and programs. This causes a very noticeable slow down and balkiness in the operation of the machine.

The only way to correct this problem is to remove all the unwanted data entries from the registry. All windows PCs have a function called Regedit which is intended for just this purpose. You can access Regedit by clicking START-RUN then typing Regedit in the box. When you are ready to start using Regedit you must first back up your registry so that you can restore it if something goes wrong. This is done by clicking FILE then selecting EXPORT. Name the backup file so that you can find it and save to your desktop or elsewhere.

You can now proceed to go through the registry entries and remove any you do not want. When you examine the registry entries you will see that you are faced with a formidable task. Unless you really know what you are doing it will be obvious to you that you need help at this point. Just remove one wrong entry and you can completely disable the computer which we certainly do not want to do.

Fortunately help is readily available in the form of an online registry cleaner application which can do the job quickly and safely. A good registry repair utility will backup your registry then delete all unecessary entries from the registry. This will easily and safely clean the registry in a matter of minutes and return the computer to being the sweet running fast machine it was before the registry became corrupt.

We purchased several of the most popular registry cleaner applications and tested them to see which was best. We found that they vary greatly in ability to detect errors in the registry. The best registry cleaner applications could detect many more wrong entries than some of the others.

John Mowatt
http://www.articlesbase.com/computers-articles/slow-running-computerspeed-it-up-with-registry-cleaner-software-751759.html

Quite often there are stages when a user finds that something is wrong with his/her computer and quite frankly most of them don’t even know what exactly went wrong or how to correct this problem.

Majority of such population are either the young college going newbie’s or the middle to old aged office going or retired people. The only problem with either kind is the lack of education about the applications and utilities on the internet which can make their and their computers life a lot easier.

What happened to there computer? Majority of these people have come across an advertisement on the internet and after clicking on those ads and few more with similar kind they find that there computer is acting crazy or getting slower. If they go in for an expensive repair or check-up they will be ripped off their pockets. So how can such class of not so computer savvy peoples be assisted? Online education about the product is the only way to easy off their curiosity.

For those who have found their computer speed coming down from a sports car to that of a truck, can now look in for the Registry First Aid software which is the most comprehensive system utility present today to help overcoming odd computer behaviors.

It’s faster and identifies more problems aggressively that are directly affecting your computer’s performance than any other software. Do you know, every application installed on your computer knowingly or unknowingly create new links in the registry?

Now what is Registry? Registry is the system application which stores the values generated and created when any Microsoft or Non-Microsoft compatible application is installed on a windows operating system like windows 98, 2000, XP etc.

Registry First Aid is a People’s Choice award winning software with great feedback and news from its user around the world to try. Its major accomplishment are improving system performance, killing unwanted or missing registry entries which were causing the slow computer boot-up, various application hang state and even the much talked out ‘Blue Screen’ scenarios. Lots of people have appreciated the way this software has helped their computers.

Do you know? When an application is installed on the operating system it creates a minimum of 100 registry entries. Also, if you remove a 3rd party windows compatible application, it does not go away without leaving at-least 5 invalid links.

Do you know? Majority of system crashes are caused by the failure of registry to find out the referred link pointing to a particular system or application resource which is no longer available on that local computer!

In similar cases if the files were moved from one drive to another, they would not update the registry links and cause a much hated delay. Therefore, things Registry First Aid does is to:

· Find any invalid file/folder links or references in Windows operating system which can be 9x/NT/2000/ME/XP

· Allows the user to specify the drive and path to look for registry referred files or folders

· Repair the registry by finding exact match to re-link invalid entries

· Give an ability to user to choose to delete or retain invalid references

· Create undo files which can be used to bring back a system to a previous registry state. All the undo files are stored in RegEdit4 format.

Ted Peterson
http://www.articlesbase.com/software-articles/when-your-registries-are-dying-what-do-you-do-106317.html

Hi this question is intended for techies and hardcore users alike.I have received a lot of suggestion for using ccleaner,Glary utilities,PC Health Advisor etc.But is it really safe to leave your registry for repair to these type of cleaners ?
I have had reports of people who said the reg cleaner they used caused problem as some replaced and deleted important registry entries !!!
So forget the brands,just how safe are they ?

Registry cleaners are completely unnecessary.
Cleaning your registry will not improve computer performance or make it run faster.
There are built-in computer maintenance programs for that and they are easy to use.

Registry cleaners commonly delete items that computers actually need, then it falls to the user to figure out how to repair the mess.

Learn how to use your computer built-in Tools. You will never need to use a registry cleaner.

If you are afflicted by a slowdown in the functioning of your computer, you may have tried scanning for viruses or defragmenting the hard disks in the computer in an attempt to speed things up. If these measures do not improve the situation and you have ascertained that there are no obvious hardware or software errors causing the slowdown, it is time to look at the Windows Registry.

Windows registry keeps track of everything that you computer does starting from hardware and software installed and removed from your system, configuration changes, deciding which programs run, how many users accounts exist on your system and even tracking the websites that you have visited lately. If you have not bothered to clean the registry ever since you bought the computer, there may be hundreds or thousands of entries that need to be resolved.

You may be tempted to use the registry editing utility regedit provided by Windows and modify the registry manually. Even if you are an advanced Windows user with a good knowledge of registry entries, manual editing of registry is not advisable. That goes double for you if you are a novice/intermediate user with very little idea of registry entries. It is always safer to have a registry cleaner do the job for you and here are the reasons why –

1.    Number of Errors – Registry errors can run into hundreds and even thousands of errors, especially if the registry has not been cleaned for a long time. There are hundreds of components in the registry and scanning each component for errors is an impossible task.

2.    Identifying Errors – It is difficult to keep track of what software and hardware changes have occurred over the lifetime of your computer. It may be difficult to differentiate between a legitimate registry entry and an erroneous one.

3.    Risk of Crash/Malfunction – One cannot blithely modify the registry, as the risks of malfunctioning of software or a computer crash occurring are very real.

4.    Cryptic Registry Entries – Registry entries are not easy to understand and determining the role played by a registry entry can be a difficult task.

5.    Removal of Errors – A registry cleaner can identify the level of risk associated with an error – a measure of how crucial it is for correct operation of the computer, far more accurately than in a manual cleaning.

6.    Repair Errors – Some registry cleaners come with the capacity to repair errors rather than just delete the error.

7.    Backup and Restore – Many registry cleaners back up the registry prior to modification and create system restore points just in case a rollback is necessary. These steps may be forgotten in a manual cleaning.

Pinky Mcbanon
http://www.articlesbase.com/computers-articles/7-reasons-why-i-need-to-run-a-registry-cleaner-709850.html

What is it?

For many years, Eusing registry cleaner has established itself as a reliable piece of software in the highly competitive market of registry utilities.

It is a reliable, malware-free registry cleaner that can be downloaded online free. Many users have reported that Eusing had found and repaired registry errors even where other utilities failed to pick them.

Why we like it

First Eusing is free. While some of its competitors will charge you up to $50 for a registry package, Eusing scans your registry, removes duplicate objects and repairs missing entries, and backs up the registry, all free.

Another plus, is the easy-to-use interface. Virtually anyone can download and run Eusing without first going for a training session. It is ideal for those of us who are technologically challenged.

Is Eusing safe

Well actually that is a good question. Lately the utility was listed as rogue application. Despite the assurances of its creators, it was feared that Eusing facilitate malware invasion (while the registry cleaner itself is virus and malware-free). In all fairness however, there are no known reports of malware invasion caused by Eusing.

Another negative feature is the nagware: the silly dialogue box that constantly reminds you to register the package. Then again, if you don’t like it, you can always get rid of it by buying the commercial package.

Finally no registry cleaner is really 100% reliable, despite what its developpers may tell you: all are third-party utilities and the possibility still exists that they get confused and remove shared registry entries. Hence the importance, to have on the registry cleaner a feature that allows you to review registry objects that the utility intends removing before it actually goes on and delete them.

Amene Katanda