questions regarding registry cleaners

razz

razz

Member
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.
 
razz said:
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.
Click to expand...

(1) Yes it probably is, i had a similar experience with Registry Booster from Uniblue which i don't recommend to anyone, it had found some 10,000 registry issues i tried Eusing Free Registry Cleaner it found like 300 or something and it works much faster. After fixing them using Esuing Registry Booster found none! :)

(2) Depending but i would think Eusing is extremely close to the ones you pay for.

(3) Esuing Free Registry Cleaner :)
 
CCleaner is more of a drive/IE history cleanup tool then anything else for a start. It sees a limited uninstaller as well as small cleaner but nothing like you would see in the Eusing free registry cleaner found at http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_cleaner/registry_cleaner.htm

I took #3 and made that #1 since it's the number #1 free cleaner available for 2000?XP/Vista at present. It's a fast effective cleaner that tops even the paid for Registry Mechanic by a long shot getting onto the 1) item. RM isn't too sensitive. It's simply not that effective while better then others seen.

The second item is ironically covered along with #1+#3 in one shot! For seeing a few hundred invalid entries that's typical and not any big worry if you have had the same copy of Windows running for a lenthy period of time. With numerous programs changed installed and later removed uninstallers tend to leave things behind. At some point you will start seeing Windows start to slow often as a result.
 
Thank you ALL very much, I really appreciate your time. I will download Eusing and see what it comes up with.
:)
 
The Eusing cleaner is about the top cleaner found at this time and strictly freeware. Others like Regcure require buying the full version. Eusing is an automatic cleaner there. RegCleaner is one for the advanced user locating the registry cleaner in the menu bar>tools drop down menu for manual removal of main keys in the main window.

Another tool is Regseeker which can be used to see specific drivers removed by name without fuss and worry about knocking the wrong ones out as well as having cleaning capability. http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm

The Eusing cleaner typically finds more and is easy to use compared to others along with being a faster updated cleaner.
 
I tried Eusing cleaner and worked well.
I found out about CCleaner from here and worked well.
I always used RegSeeker before i came here. and worked well.
thankyou.......found another proggy i liked.......it works well.
 
Last edited:
RegSeeker has one option you won't find with other cleaners being the option to specify a particular driver in the system32 folder to see removed. But it won't find the amount of items seen when running the Eusing cleaner for the registry itself. It won't hurt to have both on for those reasons.

Regcure may work as well as any other cleaner but is still a retail product like Registry Mechanic and others. As a rule you won't find spywares in the free cleaners while certain ones may see an adware like typically seen with sharewares to buy a full version.
 
I use Auslogics Boost Speed. Has a disk and memory defrag built in and seems to do a nice job on my computer. I did use Eusing when I was running XP. Installed it on my Vista machine, and every scan I had to use system restore to fix what It did. I don't know why I have that problem but I started using Auslogics and have been happy.
 
No one said it was. Different programs in generall will tend to see a different set of options for each one. The drawback with RegCure however is there you pay for a retail product to see all functions while the others mentioned are freewares.
 
I Downloaded Eusing and did a scan and it found 498 problems. do i just let it fix them all or do i need to take care with what ones it fixes and if so how do i know what needs to be fixed by Eusing. sorry to hijack this thread but noone has posted in almost 3 months
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top