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by markholmes24

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Can anyone recommend a decent registry cleaner/optimizer/repair tool. It's for professional use so needs to be a good one. I'm currently looking at Registry Mechanic and WinASO - anyone got any comments on those?

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by lancedixon

My 2 cents worth - I have used Registry Mechanic for about 1 year now - it finds stuff, it deletes it, you can back up and restore. I haven't compared it with/to anything else but it seems to do it's "thing" without any silliness.

Pentium 2/350MHz, 382Mo RAM, W_2K_Pro

by sarteano9

I have been using Registry First Aid ver 3 for several years. Tried V 4 but was not overwhelmed. Also had another that vanished in a disk crash...and worse I can't remember the name. Something I found on PC World or PC Mag site.It was pretty good also. But if I can not name it....

by deejay54

I use Iolo System Mechanic. It has a nice registry cleaner and repair tool, as well as a shortcut repair and junk file cleaner. It has quite a few other tools that you can choose to load or not at installation.

by kfrey

Registry First Aid can't be beat for it's relatively low price and better-than-average usability. It finds many errors and suggests corrections which can be overridden by the user. No registry cleaner is perfect but Reg1Aid used in conjunction with free cleaners such as the one from Microsoft (RegClean) is a superb tool.

by unclerob

I've used both Tuneup & Norton Utilities (v2002) and I like them both alot probably give the final nod to Tuneup. We use Norton Systemworks at work because we purchased it a while back and I find that it's a decent product and does the job. I use Tuneup at home and it's a killer app.

I've also tried Registry Mechanic & Registry First Aid, and ASO Optimizer and although I wasn't that impressed by these utilities - but they probably do an efficient job as well.

The ui in Tuneup is far superior to what I've seen in most other reg optimizer/cleaner/repair tools plus it contains a whole bunch of other apps that are extremely useful.

They also offer a free 30 day trial which is fully functional (it doesn't just scan and force you to buy if you want to clean up the scan results).

Check out the following website page which lists reviews & awards, this software is the real deal.
You can download a copy from their site, the latest version is 2006.

http://www.tune-up.com/products/tuneup-utilities/awards/

just my 0.02 cents cdn...

by mwarren260

I have been using Windows Registry Repair Pro for about a year and have been very satisfied. The current version is 2.0.0.1 and can be found at www.3bsoftware.com. I am using it with XP Pro SP 2 and have had no problems. It scans and repairs errors, defragments and compacts, and backs up. It's available in English, French, German or Spanish. It will also allow you to scan for a specific registry string.

by chasa

Try this, it's free. I've been using it for at least a year; I let it fix every problem it finds and have had no problems resulting from its use.

by paulklerkx

I have been using regcleaner for about 5-6 years and have never had an issue with it. Does a registry clean, you can remove software, some of which doesn't appear under add/remove programs and you can also cleanup the registry after removing software that doesn't completely remove itself. Also has undo options.
Definitely recommend it. Just because it's free doesn't mean it isn't good.

http://www.worldstart.com/weekly-download/archives/reg-cleaner4.3.htm

by kfrey

As stated in my comments earlier, Registry First Aid is an excellent program. However, all registry repair/cleaner tools should not be used in isolation just as individual virus/etc. scanners should not be used as a be-all and end-all. I agree with psk that Regcleaner is a great tool to add to the package. Likewise for Regseeker, RegClean from Microsoft and others. As a paid utility, Registry First Aid remains a strong choice to add to a kit of registry fix-it utilities.

by curtmiller2

Regcleaner is an excellent program. You can also get the whole suite of utilities called jv16 Powertools which includes the registry cleaner plus many other useful utils. Here is a link to the last fully functional free one. I have used this for years and highly recommend it.

http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/

by rdondelinger

Mark,

I've been using the free utility Crap Cleaner (www.ccleaner.com) for well over a year on every flavor of Windoze OS, on dozens of PCs. It doesn't "repair" the Registry, but it does pretty much everything else. I refer to it as Windows_Disk_Cleanup on Steriods. Cleans the Registry, deletes junk files from the hard drive (customizable), identifies and allows manual removal of applications and startup program entries.

I always use its default configuration, and have never had Registry issues with it. I've installed it for newbie Windows users with the confidence that they won't hose their system when using it.

Available in multiple languages, and new updates are always coming out.

It can also be found at this great freeware/trialware utilities download site: www.filehippo.com Just stay clear of the paid "Ads by Gooooogle" advertisements.

- Ron

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