macgirl Posted May 19, 2007 Share Posted May 19, 2007 For real? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51464-does-any-of-those-registry-cleaners-work/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha Sirius Posted May 19, 2007 Share Posted May 19, 2007 Girl, what I know is that they don`t do nothing useful, they might destroy used information for instance. W32 Registry system is just a fancy way to store information that on a unix would be on"/etc" and "~/.*". And I think there is no quiet good reasons to erase those records, to erase just one in a while, for installation problems and startups, use regedit. Ah, and for startup use msconf (I think, don`t remember quiet well the name, could be msconfig) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51464-does-any-of-those-registry-cleaners-work/#findComment-368086 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwhsh8r Posted May 19, 2007 Share Posted May 19, 2007 yea, the ones that you install and dont try and make you scared to buy it do, they just remove redundant and old registry entries from improper uninstallers and errors, some can be risky though.... ccleaner has a basic one (thats free, good prog too) so you can run that and see, it also has a backup option so if it fuxx0rs your windows then you can restore it (never had that happen to me, but ive seen alot of windows installs go south.... so you never know....) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51464-does-any-of-those-registry-cleaners-work/#findComment-368137 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinkFreak Posted May 20, 2007 Share Posted May 20, 2007 Yes, They do speed up ur pc a lot. File loading time should improve the most. Also the explorer should improve. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51464-does-any-of-those-registry-cleaners-work/#findComment-368818 Share on other sites More sharing options...
djpc47 Posted May 20, 2007 Share Posted May 20, 2007 try out ccleaner.... its free and it does a tiny bit but barely anything... but sometimes useful.... as for answering do they do anything... it depends... for the average person no for some odd occasions yes.... I spent most of the starting portion of when I got internet back in 56k trying to find out ways to speed up my computer.... back then it was a Cyrix 200 non MMX.... had a friend that had a 400mhz Celeron or something like that.... keep it this way my comp was old, I was a gamer and I wanted to try the latest games... so anyway in the seeking for methods.... I tried out registry tweakers, registry tweaking, memory cleaners, alternative gui's, modem tweaker's, anything I could find out about..... my result of trying out some {censored} load of programs.... was that as far as what I just mentioned most of the things just don't do a sufficient change..... registry tweaking can do a bit but usually not much..... registry cleaning can sometimes rid you of a few probs... memory cleaning. back then I had 32mb of ram, I figure the issue was the program would clear the ram give me a boost but the program was taking up more ram then it would actually clear;P.... modem tweaking.... pending on the program it could slow things down;).... anyway my thoughts are likely not much has changed since then maybe it would be a little more realistic to use some sort of memory cleaner now a day since most comps have tons more ram then back then.... but, you'd be likely to find that most programs that offer 200%+ speed increases or whatever else just don't work;P saying all this.... the true classic ways to speed up a computer is more memory, overclocking, or upgrade........ almost missed one.... reinstall windows bwhsh8r, god bless the Guru Meditation Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51464-does-any-of-those-registry-cleaners-work/#findComment-369087 Share on other sites More sharing options...
apowerr Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 I'd recommend Tune up utilities 2007, it fully supports vista. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51464-does-any-of-those-registry-cleaners-work/#findComment-369382 Share on other sites More sharing options...
EFI Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 Under windows, from my experience, CCleaner was the best choice. I dont know if it works under Vista, as I haven't tried it, but it really worked well under XP. You can literally notice your system running a bit faster. The first time I used it, I think it said I had 2Gb of total cache sizes, and a lot of invalid/corrupt registry keys. I was surprised, I knew it would be a lot...but not in the gigabyte range, lol. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51464-does-any-of-those-registry-cleaners-work/#findComment-369393 Share on other sites More sharing options...
robotskip Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 CCleaner works on Vista. http://www.download.com/CCleaner/3000-2144_4-10669303.html Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51464-does-any-of-those-registry-cleaners-work/#findComment-369450 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bartboy919 Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 Does should be Do in the title Regardless of my Grammer Whoring, I have come to the conclusion they dont realy do anything preformance wise, so I would say no Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51464-does-any-of-those-registry-cleaners-work/#findComment-369478 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rez. Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 In addition to {censored} Cleaner, The only other piece of software I've used that does a good job cleaning (And compacting) the Registry is Advanced Uninstaller Pro. It comes with alot of bells and whistles that you most likely will not need (I never use them) but it is quite nice when it comes to Registry cleaning. It is Payware - But that shouldn't be a problem Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51464-does-any-of-those-registry-cleaners-work/#findComment-369507 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted May 22, 2007 Author Share Posted May 22, 2007 Thanks everybody Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51464-does-any-of-those-registry-cleaners-work/#findComment-370504 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yaniv Ragasaydiv Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 For real? the only thing ive trusted so far and one thats worked so far is Tune Up Utilities 2007... its pretty neat and it doesnt mess with any important registry entries.. just takes only the junk away.. like missing shortcuts and missing headers etc etc.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51464-does-any-of-those-registry-cleaners-work/#findComment-467912 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metrogirl Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 As the topic has been brought forward ... I use two programs on a regular basis. "XP Repair Pro 2007" and "Registry Mechanic". Both do an amazing job of clearing out {censored} from the registry and also fixing other system errors. They each find a few things that the other misses. I've never had either screw anything up and the results are often astounding in terms of speed and curing mystery errors like inexplicable delays when trying to do something. With these two progs and a bit of common sense I have kept the XP installation on my desktop working smoothly for 679 days since first install according to the logs. Other handy tools I use are "ContextDelete" - shifts stuff from the right-click menu that you don't want there; "Sandboxie" for trying new programs without actually having them permanently install anything; ActiveXManager for controlling what gets stuffed into IE and XPLite for getting rid of MS components. I also have a large collection of registry hacks I've mainly written myself, some of which I've posted here over time. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51464-does-any-of-those-registry-cleaners-work/#findComment-468726 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LazyChop Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 First I, used RegSupreme and Regcleaner a Freeware but I was not satisfied Now I use Tune Up Utilities 2007 an I think its the best. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51464-does-any-of-those-registry-cleaners-work/#findComment-474720 Share on other sites More sharing options...
devilhood Posted October 20, 2007 Share Posted October 20, 2007 The latest version of {censored} Cleaner (CCleaner) is probably by far the safest Registry Cleaning software available. It also now fully supports Vista and is updated regularly. I use CCleaner religiously on all my machines and have never experienced a single problem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51464-does-any-of-those-registry-cleaners-work/#findComment-475680 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lkr Posted October 20, 2007 Share Posted October 20, 2007 ccleaner is great Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51464-does-any-of-those-registry-cleaners-work/#findComment-476027 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Threepwood Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 Does should be Do in the title Regardless of my Grammer Whoring, I have come to the conclusion they dont realy do anything preformance wise, so I would say no 'Grammer'? 'Dont realy'? Don't throw rocks in a glass house, dude. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51464-does-any-of-those-registry-cleaners-work/#findComment-476599 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 EasyCleaner and CCCleaner are the best and they both work on XP but on Vista, EasyCleaner picks up important stuff as unnecessary files and makes your computer really slow and unstable. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51464-does-any-of-those-registry-cleaners-work/#findComment-476880 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted October 22, 2007 Author Share Posted October 22, 2007 Thank you all guys (and gal ) I used CCCleaner, anyway one of the user accounts have problems with Outlook (rules that doesnt work anymore), Messenger cant run/connect corretly, other anomalies. My account have less problems, sometimes messenger says that some component is damaged, then the next run it work. What do you think, could a registry cleaner/fixer could save my WinXP or is better to reinstall, it gives me a headache to reinstall all the porgrams again I almost doesn't use the WinXP anymore, only to watch some movies/series, I work in the Mac OS X more than win, and also use more the new Dellintosh. I even installed Vista there to make some tests. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51464-does-any-of-those-registry-cleaners-work/#findComment-477606 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metrogirl Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 As one gal to another I had a weird problem with my XP machine a couple of months back - right-clicking on anything caused a delay of about two minutes before I got a context menu. I resorted to DOS to delete stuff... At the same time double-clicking on MS Office documents opened the application but not the document. One pass of XP Repair Pro 2007 fixed both problems. So my advice is to try a bunch of reg. fixing programs before you go through the hassle of reinstallation. It certainly sounds as if your problems are config. related. Give it a go, anyway. If you're going to reinstall, you might want to read my Handy Guide to ReInstalling XP here. It's slightly outdated since the introduction of IE7, but the basic philosophy is still valid - particularly with regard to saving your settings and program defaults. It's a royal pain discovering that you've lost carefully customised configurations and programs no longer do what you laboriously set them up to do already! On more than one occasion I've installed to a completely new disk and saved the old one. Then I've been able to connect it with a USB adapter and pull off stuff I'd forgotten to save. With HDDs being relatively cheap nowadays it's a great way of being certain. Good luck Ale, and feel free to PM me if you have any specific questions. Always glad to help -s Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51464-does-any-of-those-registry-cleaners-work/#findComment-478078 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted October 23, 2007 Author Share Posted October 23, 2007 Thanks, Sarah. I let you know if I encounter some specific problem. Right now I more focused on getting Leopard installed on my Mac and my Hacks just a few more days Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51464-does-any-of-those-registry-cleaners-work/#findComment-478142 Share on other sites More sharing options...
R2k. Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 i personally don`t believe in any of those registry cleaners.i belong to group of people who think that registry base is something that cannot be cleaned ... format c / ~R Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51464-does-any-of-those-registry-cleaners-work/#findComment-480440 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tripleboot Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 I've been using RegSupreme Pro for a couple years. I think it works well. Same company as Jv16 Power Tools. You can go into the Registry Editor and do a search for leftover files from deleted programs and delete from there. Its amazing whats left even after you use CCleaner or other registry cleaners. In Window Washer you can set up a custom wash to clean specific strings, values, keys to wash or delete. And just when you think you got rid of all your leftover junk from the registry, take a look into your C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch file. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51464-does-any-of-those-registry-cleaners-work/#findComment-481255 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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