reg cleaner-regseeker

[tremmor]

Ive been using for at least 2 yrs. some have been and to extensive and could shut you down. this is free and good for cleaning unused proggys.

its free and has other uses for staying slim and trim.
http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm

don't forget to defrag with a good commercial proggy like Diskkeeper Pro or Perfectdisk.

 

[PC eye]

Besides RegSeeker there are other freewares like RegCleaner and CCleaner available.

RegCleaner opens up to a main window displaying all non MS programs installed for manual removal of main keys there. The automatic registry cleanup is found in the tools section on the menu where you open the regedit tool as well. http://www.dewassoc.com/support/useful/regcleaner.htm

CCleaner also nicknamed the crap cleaner will find and remove useless temp folders that are hidden quite well in the user acount sub folders in the DocumentsandSettings. That will also clean out the IE history and offline content including it's own registry cleanup tool. http://www.ccleaner.com/

One thing offered by RegSeeker is the search tool for finding individual registry values by name for removal as well as finding drivers in the system32 folder. When you are having trouble removing old now useless drivers that provides a manual means there.

 

[JSpecGC8]

Oh man I have CC cleaner but these others sound very nice. I have noticed a slowdown in my system (yes its noticeable) and I am sure its from all the install and removal of programs and such. I defrag atleast once a week so I am pretty sure thats the reason.

Anyway nice thread folks I was about to ask about some other reg cleaners!!

 

[PC eye]

An automatic cleaning tool will only find nad remove invalid keys trying to load drivers and other "orphaned" values that need to be cleared up. That can help when some unknown driver left over from a previously uninstalled program is clashing with something new.

Disabling unnecessary items found in the startup and even services tabs of the msconfig utility can free up resources there too. That will lesson the amount of things that load up along with Windows. And one other way is hand picking items found in the services under Control Panel>Administrative Tools. Have a printer? no! use one? no! disable the printer spooling then since that runs all the time.