Best Registry Cleaner?

[wirednuts]

i use regedit and delete anything that i feel like, regardless of what it is.

why dont i have "add to dropbox" in my context menus!?!??

 

[boochi]

The registry cleaner in the Yamicsoft Managers is really good along with all the other features.

 

[sm625]

Wow talk about ignorance. Your computer has like 5 registry hives and each one can be anywhere from 4MB to 64+MB. The registry is under constant access. Huge registry hives are what make old windows installations feel so slow. My XP installation has 8MB registry hives, after 5 years. That is why it still feels fast. I have a pc at home that has 40MB hives, and it feels slow as dirt. Registry cleaners dont clean up near as much as they should, but they do make a difference.

 

[mikeymikec]

Wow talk about ignorance. Your computer has like 5 registry hives and each one can be anywhere from 4MB to 64+MB. The registry is under constant access. Huge registry hives are what make old windows installations feel so slow. My XP installation has 8MB registry hives, after 5 years. That is why it still feels fast. I have a pc at home that has 40MB hives, and it feels slow as dirt. Registry cleaners dont clean up near as much as they should, but they do make a difference.

So you think they make a difference, yet you have a PC at home that feels "as slow as dirt"?

The software hive on my machine is ~62MB, yet my PC feels a) as fast as the day I installed Win7 (clean install from a Win7 setup DVD, April 2010) on it and b) as fast than any fresh install I've done on new computer builds. Needless to say, I haven't ever run a "performance optimiser" or "registry cleaning" app on it.

A customer's laptop is sitting to my left and has a software hive of 67MB (Win7) and feels a heck of a lot slower than my desktop. My desktop takes about 45 seconds to cold-boot, the laptop takes more than 90. I've seen average laptops with a normal HDD and a fresh install of Win7 start up quite a bit quicker than that laptop (probably 45 - 60 seconds).

Not sure your hive size = performance metric stands up to much scrutiny.

 

[John Connor]

I use CCleaner, NTRegOPT and Eusing Free Registry Cleaner. NEVER had problems. Ccleaner has the ability to delete files with an over write and wipe free space. I use 7 passes. I ran a recovery program and found nothing after the wipe.

 

[Nothinman]

Wow talk about ignorance. Your computer has like 5 registry hives and each one can be anywhere from 4MB to 64+MB. The registry is under constant access. Huge registry hives are what make old windows installations feel so slow. My XP installation has 8MB registry hives, after 5 years. That is why it still feels fast. I have a pc at home that has 40MB hives, and it feels slow as dirt. Registry cleaners dont clean up near as much as they should, but they do make a difference.

And you can prove that definitively?

 

[imagoon]

Wow talk about ignorance. Your computer has like 5 registry hives and each one can be anywhere from 4MB to 64+MB. The registry is under constant access. Huge registry hives are what make old windows installations feel so slow. My XP installation has 8MB registry hives, after 5 years. That is why it still feels fast. I have a pc at home that has 40MB hives, and it feels slow as dirt. Registry cleaners dont clean up near as much as they should, but they do make a difference.

I would suspect that has more to do with all the apps using all of the keys in hive than the hive itself. I believe MS said at one point that the registry hive is simplified variant of the same engine Exchange uses to store hundreds of GB of email. IE if the hive is 64MB (which is a tiny database) it is more likely the constant application calls to the API to move data in and out and the Applications response to the data from the API that is actually slowing the machine down.

 

[TheReaWarmonger]

Wow talk about ignorance. Your computer has like 5 registry hives and each one can be anywhere from 4MB to 64+MB. The registry is under constant access. Huge registry hives are what make old windows installations feel so slow. My XP installation has 8MB registry hives, after 5 years. That is why it still feels fast. I have a pc at home that has 40MB hives, and it feels slow as dirt. Registry cleaners dont clean up near as much as they should, but they do make a difference.

It doesn't have anything to do with size, it has to do with how registry keys are enumerated by the operating system. The registry is a database, so depending on how the OS queries upon them is what will decide if the size is a major issue or not. Also keep in mind most applications only query the registry once during execution (to load serial keys and other what not). So no one here can make the assumption that size != performance, unless someone has broken down and disassembled the OS to see how the registry works (or found official documentation). Tho I for one would expect even Microsoft would have their heads right about registry performance.

 

[Dude111]

Please don't resurrect year+old threads.

There is absolutely NOTHING WRONG with replying to ANY THREAD my friend if the person is adding to the conversation!

Just because the last reply might be from 2002 doesnt mean the topic is not valid anymore... Obviously the topic is still valid OR NO ONE WOULD FIND IT to reply!


Just because the thread starter might have moved on and wont see it,other NEW MEMBERS will still benefit from the information.......

 

[pcslookout]

There is absolutely NOTHING WRONG with replying to ANY THREAD my friend if the person is adding to the conversation!

Just because the last reply might be from 2002 doesnt mean the topic is not valid anymore... Obviously the topic is still valid OR NO ONE WOULD FIND IT to reply!


Just because the thread starter might have moved on and wont see it,other NEW MEMBERS will still benefit from the information.......

This.