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Bostonwolf

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Good Morning!

Currently using Vista 64 Home Premimum. Can anyone recommend a good registry cleaner? I tried PCTOOLS and it promptly wrecked my registry. :mad:

Thanks!
J
 

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Bostonwolf said:
Good Morning!

Currently using Vista 64 Home Premimum. Can anyone recommend a good registry cleaner? I tried PCTOOLS and it promptly wrecked my registry. :mad:

Thanks!
J
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Don't use any of them, I do not believe using them improve the performance of a PC but others might have different opinion.
 

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    Biostar
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    Biostar MCP6P-M2
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    4GB
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    NVIDIA GeForce 8400GS
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    CIBOX
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I have the same answer. Don't do it. If you insist and know what you are doing.....really know what you're doing....CCleaner is pretty good. You'll find a lot of people here use this program. I use the cleaner from time to time but never the registry cleaner. There is no need since Windows 95....maybe 98.
 

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    Realtek
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    Intel Corporation SANTA ROSA CRB
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I have two installed on my PC, CCleaner and Advanced system care. I used them to clean up the Reg after getting rid of programs but I always back it up first. After about a week I delete the backup. I think I'm going to quit using them though. I'll continue to use the Advanced system care but I'm going to leave the reg cleaner check mark unchecked. Too many bad stories are starting to scare me. The ASC program has a lot of other good tools check it out.
 

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    19inch dell HD flatscreen
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kavita said:
Bostonwolf said:
Good Morning!

Currently using Vista 64 Home Premimum. Can anyone recommend a good registry cleaner? I tried PCTOOLS and it promptly wrecked my registry. :mad:

Thanks!
J
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Hi Bostonwolf, Do not Use Registry Cleaners;)
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---I NOW have to agree about not to use register cleaners---(some of them wanted me to buy their stuff in order to clean-up!)---you may try this forum-tutorial, click here--->http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/212412-registry-backup-restore.html?nojs=1#links---

peace
 

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    (RAM) 1.00GB
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    Internal DAC (400MHz) - memory: 382 MB
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    Realtek High Def Audio
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So using System Restore will restore the Registry too.
 

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    3.5GB DDR2 at 667MHz
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    19inch dell HD flatscreen
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    1280x768 60hz
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    7mb
Registry cleaning and defrag made me reinstall Vista. Then it made me drink and beat small children. I would say "nay."
 

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    stock Toshiba MK2546GSX and a Western Digital 1TB MyBook
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I am only using advanced system care on vista ultimate SP2 and i am very happy with ASC.spyware,,defrag,registry and many ........it has...i recommed it
 

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    Intel Corporation SANTA ROSA CRB
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    4GB
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    NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS
    Sound Card
    Realtek ALC268-ALC883
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    AU Optronics B154EW08 V1
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    1280 x 800
    Hard Drives
    250GB
Cleaners are for good and bad. I used CCleaner on my previous XP machine and on my work PC after a couple of years without any cleaning. It did improve performance visibly. There are risks though, and any damage may not be immediately appearent. Now I use CCleaner after new installs, but leave things I feel uncertain about.
 

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A guide for the average computer user for NOT using a registry cleaner follows -

1.Windows is a closed source system, developers of registry cleaners are not working on definitive information, but rather empirical knowledge. Automatic cleaners will usually have to do some guesswork.

2. Modifying registry keys incorrectly can cause Windows instability, or make Windows unbootable.


3. No registry cleaner is completely safe and the potential is ever present to cause more problems than they claim to fix.

THEREFORE

4. If you do not have knowledge of the registry, then you would probably be better off leaving it alone, and definitely not placing blind trust in a program to do the job for you.




 
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    SPECS. Drive 1. 298.09 GB Fujitzu MHZ2320BH G2 ATA Device Drive 2. [ All as above.] CONFIG. C:\287.65 GB, D:\298.09 GB, E:\10.44 GB.
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