Free Registry Cleaner
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I need to fix a couple (400) registry problems and of course tried RegClean which fixed 1 of them, you have to buy it to fix the rest.... Does anyone know of a free registry fixer for XP/Vista, I only need to run it once so don't want to have to buy one. regards, Darka
Jonathan Wilkes Darka[Xanya.net] [My Code Project Articles]
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I need to fix a couple (400) registry problems and of course tried RegClean which fixed 1 of them, you have to buy it to fix the rest.... Does anyone know of a free registry fixer for XP/Vista, I only need to run it once so don't want to have to buy one. regards, Darka
Jonathan Wilkes Darka[Xanya.net] [My Code Project Articles]
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I need to fix a couple (400) registry problems and of course tried RegClean which fixed 1 of them, you have to buy it to fix the rest.... Does anyone know of a free registry fixer for XP/Vista, I only need to run it once so don't want to have to buy one. regards, Darka
Jonathan Wilkes Darka[Xanya.net] [My Code Project Articles]
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Tempting... have too many other apps I want to write though, so could do with a freebie.
Jonathan Wilkes Darka[Xanya.net] [My Code Project Articles]
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I need to fix a couple (400) registry problems and of course tried RegClean which fixed 1 of them, you have to buy it to fix the rest.... Does anyone know of a free registry fixer for XP/Vista, I only need to run it once so don't want to have to buy one. regards, Darka
Jonathan Wilkes Darka[Xanya.net] [My Code Project Articles]
Stupid moronic univoter. Should be named and shamed!
Jonathan Wilkes Darka[Xanya.net] [My Code Project Articles]
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SimulationofSai wrote:
Try CCleaner
I'd love to but the website is blocked by my company! Very annoying, may have to wait to download it tonight. thanks
Jonathan Wilkes Darka[Xanya.net] [My Code Project Articles]
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Stupid moronic univoter. Should be named and shamed!
Jonathan Wilkes Darka[Xanya.net] [My Code Project Articles]
Alas! The anonymity of the web allows for the meek to act brave!
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SimulationofSai wrote:
Try CCleaner
I'd love to but the website is blocked by my company! Very annoying, may have to wait to download it tonight. thanks
Jonathan Wilkes Darka[Xanya.net] [My Code Project Articles]
I'll second CCleaner, it's a cracking util and should do exactly what you're after.
Jonathan [Darka] wrote:
I'd love to but the website is blocked by my company!
When you go to the download page, it hosts the files on freeware/shareware sites. Here are some of the links, maybe they are not blocked? FileHippo.com[^] Download.com[^] Hope that helps.
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I'll second CCleaner, it's a cracking util and should do exactly what you're after.
Jonathan [Darka] wrote:
I'd love to but the website is blocked by my company!
When you go to the download page, it hosts the files on freeware/shareware sites. Here are some of the links, maybe they are not blocked? FileHippo.com[^] Download.com[^] Hope that helps.
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I need to fix a couple (400) registry problems and of course tried RegClean which fixed 1 of them, you have to buy it to fix the rest.... Does anyone know of a free registry fixer for XP/Vista, I only need to run it once so don't want to have to buy one. regards, Darka
Jonathan Wilkes Darka[Xanya.net] [My Code Project Articles]
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Stupid moronic univoter. Should be named and shamed!
Jonathan Wilkes Darka[Xanya.net] [My Code Project Articles]
Don't worry about those. It'll eventually be balanced out by other folks.
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Stupid moronic univoter. Should be named and shamed!
Jonathan Wilkes Darka[Xanya.net] [My Code Project Articles]
Well, it wasn't me: but I can tell you that "registry cleaning" is typically pointless. Most registry entries pointing to non-existent files are harmless. You might have some situations where there are COM ProgIDs and CLSIDs that will appear in, for example, Visual Basic 6.0's list of available components, but that's really not harmful unless you select one where the files don't exist any more. A tool to scan and remove these is trivial. Something like CCleaner is much more aggressive and will easily remove entries that are actually vital to your system and commonly cause it to stop working. They continually add new 'detection' to make it look like their tool is doing something useful whereas it is in fact dangerous. Sysinternals' Autoruns[^] picks up locations from which programs can autorun or libraries be automatically loaded into some process or even all processes. In any case, due to how keys, values and data are stored in hives, removing entries won't generally make the hives any smaller and won't speed up access. The only way to truly defragment the registry, to speed up access, that I'm aware of is to back it up and restore it. Nothing else reorganizes the hives, so your 'cleaned' registry simply consists of lots of little holes where the data used to be, which may not be reused efficiently.
DoEvents: Generating unexpected recursion since 1991
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I need to fix a couple (400) registry problems and of course tried RegClean which fixed 1 of them, you have to buy it to fix the rest.... Does anyone know of a free registry fixer for XP/Vista, I only need to run it once so don't want to have to buy one. regards, Darka
Jonathan Wilkes Darka[Xanya.net] [My Code Project Articles]
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Well, it wasn't me: but I can tell you that "registry cleaning" is typically pointless. Most registry entries pointing to non-existent files are harmless. You might have some situations where there are COM ProgIDs and CLSIDs that will appear in, for example, Visual Basic 6.0's list of available components, but that's really not harmful unless you select one where the files don't exist any more. A tool to scan and remove these is trivial. Something like CCleaner is much more aggressive and will easily remove entries that are actually vital to your system and commonly cause it to stop working. They continually add new 'detection' to make it look like their tool is doing something useful whereas it is in fact dangerous. Sysinternals' Autoruns[^] picks up locations from which programs can autorun or libraries be automatically loaded into some process or even all processes. In any case, due to how keys, values and data are stored in hives, removing entries won't generally make the hives any smaller and won't speed up access. The only way to truly defragment the registry, to speed up access, that I'm aware of is to back it up and restore it. Nothing else reorganizes the hives, so your 'cleaned' registry simply consists of lots of little holes where the data used to be, which may not be reused efficiently.
DoEvents: Generating unexpected recursion since 1991
Thanks Mike, I need it for a specific issue I am having with firefox complaining about a missing COM object. regards,
Jonathan Wilkes Darka[Xanya.net] [My Code Project Articles]
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