Registry cleaners
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Does anyone have any recommendation for good registry cleaners? (Free ones would be most appreciated, although I wouldn't mind paying if the thing has good reputation.) I've got a 2-year-old home PC that's nearly grinding to a halt. Can't say for certain it's the registry, but it's worth a try. Cheers.
Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike... me...
What do you expect as result?
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Does anyone have any recommendation for good registry cleaners? (Free ones would be most appreciated, although I wouldn't mind paying if the thing has good reputation.) I've got a 2-year-old home PC that's nearly grinding to a halt. Can't say for certain it's the registry, but it's worth a try. Cheers.
Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike... me...
I used to use a product called RegCleaner from Jouni Vuorio. No complaints. I'd fire it up about once per week and it'd list the new items first so I could always stay on top of things.
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You just reminded me of the Peter Brock's Energy Polarizer[^]
I was actually going to use that as the example but then thought "how many guys here know about it" Ah - keeping the dream alive...
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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Point taken... I should probably sit down and work out what useless programs the thing is running. The PC in question belongs to my other half, and it's still booting up while I'm happily checking emails and reading the news on the web on my Mac when we start up at the same time. Just looking for a quicker way out of this problem...
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PaulowniaK wrote:
The PC in question belongs to my other half, and it's still booting up while...
Have you looked through the HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run key? One approach is to rename each value in that key (I usually just put an underscore in front of the name), reboot the computer, and use it for a few days. As you find legitimate programs that start to complain, rename the values back to what they should be. After several weeks of normal usage, you should find what is necessary and what is not.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"Show me a community that obeys the Ten Commandments and I'll show you a less crowded prison system." - Anonymous
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Does anyone have any recommendation for good registry cleaners? (Free ones would be most appreciated, although I wouldn't mind paying if the thing has good reputation.) I've got a 2-year-old home PC that's nearly grinding to a halt. Can't say for certain it's the registry, but it's worth a try. Cheers.
Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike... me...
I use CCleaner and it works pretty well.
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Does anyone have any recommendation for good registry cleaners? (Free ones would be most appreciated, although I wouldn't mind paying if the thing has good reputation.) I've got a 2-year-old home PC that's nearly grinding to a halt. Can't say for certain it's the registry, but it's worth a try. Cheers.
Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike... me...
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Does anyone have any recommendation for good registry cleaners? (Free ones would be most appreciated, although I wouldn't mind paying if the thing has good reputation.) I've got a 2-year-old home PC that's nearly grinding to a halt. Can't say for certain it's the registry, but it's worth a try. Cheers.
Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike... me...
I recently bought one from Uniblue, and it did appear to help. But the real culprit dragging my system down was AdAware, and once I removed that, the system was back to new condition. The number of registry errors detected by the Uniblue cleaner has also dropped significantly, so the product appears to be doing something. But the Registry design is supposed to be fairly robust, and although it gets cluttered, I'm not convinced that this is a real problem. One feature of the Uniblue offering, though, is that it at least makes a backup copy of any Registry hive it plans to change before making any edits. Whether it's useful or not is unproven, but at least it's polite.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Try sysinternals tools to see what is specifically eating up resources. Task manager sucks at the task.
Alberto Bar-Noy --------------- “The city’s central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer!” (C3PO)
Alberto Bar-Noy wrote:
Try sysinternals tools
Thanks for the tip. Had a look at it at work on an XP and it looked pretty good. However, the Windows 7 version seems to be supplied from a different place. Do you know anything about that?
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What do you expect as result?
FILETIME to time_t
| FoldWithUs! | sighist | WhoIncludes - Analyzing C++ include file hierarchypeterchen wrote:
What do you expect as result?
Decreased complaints from my other half... :rolleyes:
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CClear is a tool used for clean disks.not registry.. :sigh: I am not a genius, but shed more sweat!
Aric Green wrote:
CClear is a tool used for clean disks.not registry.
Does both, actually...
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So I did. I have to say I haven't seen a measurable difference in speed, but we shall see... (didn't get the time to play around after the clean up.) At any rate, it was kinda fun wiping out all the trillion unused registry values CCleaner found :) (I did back up the registry just in case ;) ) Thanks for the tip.
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Alberto Bar-Noy wrote:
Try sysinternals tools
Thanks for the tip. Had a look at it at work on an XP and it looked pretty good. However, the Windows 7 version seems to be supplied from a different place. Do you know anything about that?
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No sorry... haven't tried them yet on win7
Alberto Bar-Noy --------------- “The city’s central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer!” (C3PO)
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Does anyone have any recommendation for good registry cleaners? (Free ones would be most appreciated, although I wouldn't mind paying if the thing has good reputation.) I've got a 2-year-old home PC that's nearly grinding to a halt. Can't say for certain it's the registry, but it's worth a try. Cheers.
Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike... me...
Why are you assuming it is the registry that is causing the problem? What operating system are you using and how much memory do you have installed? I've just doubled the memory in my daughter's PC and the speed increase has been noticable. I haven't touched anything else.
RogerH Too old to care much these days!!!
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I have seen CCleaner killing Firebird DDEX on Visual Studio 2010 Prof. Firebird DDEX uses an empty Key to mark and CCleaner was happy to remove it.
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Does anyone have any recommendation for good registry cleaners? (Free ones would be most appreciated, although I wouldn't mind paying if the thing has good reputation.) I've got a 2-year-old home PC that's nearly grinding to a halt. Can't say for certain it's the registry, but it's worth a try. Cheers.
Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike... me...
"CCleaner" because it is fast, free and doesn't cause any problems. "Registry First Aid" cost but will actually repair some problems. Don't listen to sour grapes in other responders they obviously have not actually repaired anythingwith them. I've helped many using these types of utilities over the years.
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Point taken... I should probably sit down and work out what useless programs the thing is running. The PC in question belongs to my other half, and it's still booting up while I'm happily checking emails and reading the news on the web on my Mac when we start up at the same time. Just looking for a quicker way out of this problem...
Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike... me...
My Windows 7 laptop (Core i7 Quad 1.6Ghz, 8Gig RAM) got slowed to a grind booting and logging in from the moment I installed VS2010 and SQL Server 2008 to do development. My Power On to Desktop time went from 15 seconds to over 1 minute. After I finished the development for my project, I uninstalled VS2010 and SQL Server and was back to about 15-20 seconds boot time. BTW, can someone tell Microsoft to make uninstall easier for these programs. When you install, it's one installer to run, but to uninstall, many many things to remove one by one from the Uninstall program screen, not able to do just "Uninstall SQL Server 2008" and it would remove everything the installer put on, have to remove about 10 different things.
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Point taken... I should probably sit down and work out what useless programs the thing is running. The PC in question belongs to my other half, and it's still booting up while I'm happily checking emails and reading the news on the web on my Mac when we start up at the same time. Just looking for a quicker way out of this problem...
Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike... me...
Process Explorer can be handy for finding what's eating your PC: [^] Also I found that a lot of my slowdown problems were caused by shell extensions - particularly those related to Adobe products. Here's a really good tool which allows you to easily switch these on and off: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html[^]
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Does anyone have any recommendation for good registry cleaners? (Free ones would be most appreciated, although I wouldn't mind paying if the thing has good reputation.) I've got a 2-year-old home PC that's nearly grinding to a halt. Can't say for certain it's the registry, but it's worth a try. Cheers.
Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike... me...
I like RegSeeker the best. I think the latest is V1.55 You'll have to get it from some downloadsite because I believe the author does not have a website of his own. It's probably not even actively developed anymore but it still does the job for me.
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the only reg cleaner i truely trust is the windows installer... yes that is right i re-install :sigh:
Thumbs up. Agreed. Registry cleaners are the cancer surgery of computing. You try to carve out the bad stuff, accidentally cut out some of the good stuff and often introduce problems that kill your computer sooner.