Questions regarding registry cleaners

razz

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I would like your comments on the following, thank you for your time, it is greatly appreciated:

I use CCleaner and find it to be very good. I was curious about Registry Mechanic (from PC Tools) and decided to download it on a trial basis. After cleaning my registry with CCleaner, I scanned my registry with Registry Mechanic and it found 376 additional errors. That seems like a lot to me.

My questions are:

(1) Is Registry Mechanic way too sensitive to registry issues (i.e. The issues it found are very irrelevant and do not need to be addressed) -- OR -- is CCleaner simply not sensitive enough to registry issues that need to be addressed?

(2) Do good free registry cleaners do an equally good job compared to good registry cleaner products that you have to purchase?

(3) Do you have any recommendations?

This is certainly not meant to be a frown upon CCleaner, because like I said, I really like the program, but I just want to know your opinion because 376 additional registry problems naturally worries me.
 
I can answer to questions

2. - Yes, free just do as good a job as a purchased one

3. - Google Some, but one i do suggest is CCleaner, it has a Registry Cleaner in it.
 
What I prefer to do is to allow Spybot to alert me to all changes to registry, so I can stop them before they get out of hand. I've never used Reg Mechanic, so I personally would trust CCleaner over it.
 
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