Which Program to buy for my registry

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hi all, i would like to buy a registry software but i am not an expert can you help me? i would like to buy Registry first aid Platinum 8.1 does any one know a better one which he has tryed? i would like to thank you all for your help:confused:
 
Registry cleaners/optimizers are not recommended for several reasons:


  • Registry cleaners are extremely powerful applications that can damage the registry by using aggressive cleaning routines and cause your computer to become unbootable.

    The Windows registry is a central repository (database) for storing configuration data, user settings and machine-dependent settings, and options for the operating system. It contains information and settings for all hardware, software, users, and preferences. Whenever a user makes changes to settings, file associations, system policies, or installed software, the changes are reflected and stored in this repository. The registry is a crucial component because it is where Windows "remembers" all this information, how it works together, how Windows boots the system and what files it uses when it does. The registry is also a vulnerable subsystem, in that relatively small changes done incorrectly can render the system inoperable. For a more detailed explanation, read Understanding The Registry.
  • Not all registry cleaners are created equal. There are a number of them available but they do not all work entirely the same way. Each vendor uses different criteria as to what constitutes a "bad entry". One cleaner may find entries on your system that will not cause problems when removed, another may not find the same entries, and still another may want to remove entries required for a program to work.
  • Not all registry cleaners create a backup of the registry before making changes. If the changes prevent the system from booting up, then there is no backup available to restore it in order to regain functionality. A backup of the registry is essential BEFORE making any changes to the registry.
  • Improperly removing registry entries can hamper malware disinfection and make the removal process more difficult if your computer becomes infected. For example, removing malware related registry entries before the infection is properly identified can contribute to system instability and even make the malware undetectable to removal tools.
  • The usefulness of cleaning the registry is highly overrated and can be dangerous. In most cases, using a cleaner to remove obsolete, invalid, and erroneous entries does not affect system performance but it can result in "unpredictable results".

Unless you have a particular problem that requires a registry edit to correct it, I would suggest you leave the registry alone. Using registry cleaning tools unnecessarily or incorrectly could lead to disastrous effects on your operating system such as preventing it from ever starting again. For routine use, the benefits to your computer are negligible while the potential risks are great.


 
If my experience was anything to go by, you would never update Windows. Every serious problem on my PCs have been caused by those. On the other hand I have run registry cleaners for years and still going strong.

There are limited benefits. A lot of what they remove does not matter. The fact that different cleaners take out different entries could be viewed as the authors being over-careful in different ways. CCleaner removes almost nothing but that's fine if they are the most useless (perhaps 1 or 2 on average). Most of the entries my cleaner deletes are empty ones (total deletes, about 300 on average).

I have yet to use a cleaner that does not do a backup of the changes.

The only issue I have had is when I updated my cleaner, it removed some entries that it should not have. I undid the changes and reverted to the earlier version of the software. My experience there is once you have a version that works fine on your PC, stick with it.
 
your wrong. ive updated and important for critical and security updates. Yes i do clean the registery as needed. yes i do scan for virus and yes i do run malaware bytes and defrag. use your credit card. you will find out. check your email you may find out. its called housekeeping. ive ran for years.
take care of it. get it. in your best interest. you do not need every update.
its called housekeeping.
get er done.
 
tremmor said:
your wrong. ive updated and important for critical and security updates........
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I'm not sure if you are referring to my preceding post. If you are you did not get the point. My opening para was a sarcastic comment on the previous doom and gloom post that you should not do anything involving risk (ie never use a registry cleaner). Like everything else you balance risk and reward. Yes I do update the important Windows changes.
 
My opening para was a sarcastic comment on the previous doom and gloom post that you should not do anything involving risk (ie never use a registry cleaner)
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It's not any doom and gloom, but an advice written by people, who know much more about computers, than you, me and all people from this topic together.

The main point is:
Registry cleaners/optimizers bring ZERO gain to computer performance, but on the other hand bring a risk of screwing your computer up.

You can surely do with your property (computer) whatever you want, but advising other people to do the same is simply irresponsible.
 
Broni said:
It's not any doom and gloom, but an advice written by people, who know much more about computers, than you, me and all people from this topic together.......
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No, it's advice written by people who mostly deal with properly written software on the latest computers that they replace every few years.

When I used to do a lot of batch processing with Photoshop, I would get 1200 useless new registry entries per run. Totalling that over the period I was doing the work, it's about 3 million. I don't want that lot on my PC no matter how harmless. It's junk and that's only one app.

I get about 250 empty keys per clean. Some of those will be repeats from my regular software starting up. That could be a million or two over the life of my PC.

Anyone who has used Revouninstaller knows how much junk is left behind after the standard uninstall. With poorly written software, some of the stuff that is left may come back to bite you in the future.

In a programming forum, someone posted a macro they had written that put the entire file list of the current drive into the registry, every time you ran it. Fortunately I realized the issue in time to get it taken down. There are people like that writing small apps that the "experts" never get to experience.

For the record I use an old version of RegEasy (Registry Easy).
 
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for the record ive used a few that shut me down. One i remember was Registery or Reg Mechanic. What ever i use is for general housekeeping. I will not do a deep clean. what i use seems to work fine. and all the years ive used never shut me down. then i do not do often. its some defrag etc. works well for me.
 
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