Registry cleaners...yay or nay?

[trippwojohn]

Hi--

I've heard and read so many conflicting reports of the effectiveness/idiocy of using registry cleaners that I'm quite confused. Should one Be used? If so, which one do you recommend? Thanks!

[dmt]

try regcure its easy to use and was rated one of the best

[Dagon]

i would prefer tune up utilities, think they are the best optimization utilitie for windows

Mfg Dagon

[yoco]

I use Tune Up as well!

[dmt]

does tune up utilities work good on vista x64 ?

[anon]

I can recommend CCleaner's built-in cleaner, or if you want a dedicated tool, Glarysoft's Registry Cleaner, which is also free.

[czullo]

CCleaner is best registry and trash cleaner i recommend it

[rom08]

I use ccleaner and never have any problem with it so I can recommend it (I run XP 32 and in the past vista 64 and it work with both)

[surgat]

CCleaner is good software but for a thorough cleaning i council ...... jv16 PowerTools or for expert user .... old software but still efficacious " Evidence Eliminator " only expert user

[Nobody]

I've used Registry First Aid for years without incident, and with noticeable benefits.

[Buffybot]

For me a good cleaner is glary utilities for windows of course, i use often an my pc is faster

[pi_1st]

if you use such cleaner don't forget to backup the registry before doing anything so you can restore it if something bad happened to the system and it's better to manually select which "fixes" applied to the registry and not doing it automatically

[anon]

ERUNT for the win.

Glarysoft's registry cleaner also has an option to backup and restore registry keys it has deleted.

[mike]

+1 vote for JV16 Power Tools

Very flexible accurate reg cleaner, picks up keys other reg cleaners miss, has backup and restore option too.

[v6ph1]

I didn't use any of these and my windows is still fast.
In 90% these tools destroy the windowsinstallation and programs won't work, but the speedup is 0%.

If you system is completely wasted by software you better should make a clean install.

best regards
v6ph1