Registry cleaners! need advice

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xMichael

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Hello guys, since it's my first post, I think I should introduce myself. My name is Michael and I'm from Belfast. I enjoy working with computers and have recently installed windows vista ultimate x64 on my new Q6600 machine.

I've read many articles about registry cleaners, some praise them, some advice not to use them. My question is, what is the best way to keep the registry in vista in its best condition? Are there any reliable programs which won't **** the registry after doing a cleanup? I've installed two programs just to check how many errors they'll detect. There were over 10000 errors! I decided not to remove them because I was a bit afraid of not being able to start windows the next day...

I've only installed the Windows couple of days ago, it's absolutely brilliant, fast, stable and great looking:D
 

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This is a tricky one since there are so many registry cleaners/optimizers on the market now that trying to find the one that really does what it says it can do is a headache:confused: I think the best way is trial and error but from my past experiences the smaller the app the better!! I use CCleaner alot which is a free download and have used Vista Optimizer which seems to do the job! sorry i cant be more specific but like i said trial and a lot of errors!! lol.;) Hope this helps??
 

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My advice to you is DON'T USE THEM for the following reason:

xMichael said:
I've installed two programs just to check how many errors they'll detect. There were over 10000 errors! I decided not to remove them because I was a bit afraid of not being able to start windows the next day...
I've only installed the Windows couple of days ago
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Since you only installed Vista a couple of days ago it is extremely unlikely that you will have a dozen or so errors in the registry, let alone the 10,000+ that were being claimed. Any superfluous entries in the registry are simply ignored.
Dwarf
 

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I agree with Dwarf, having only just done a fresh install its very unlikley that your registry would have such a high number of errors as that?? but going back to registry cleaners, there are a lot of bad apps out there on the market but IMO CCleaner has never let me down before, and ive used it on both vista and XP! + for a free app that cant be bad but i wouldnt use anymore than that! I usually do most regediting myself!!
 

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I use ccleaner also, awesome liitle app and Tune Up Utilities "one button clean up" aswell as all its other many functions. I have used Tune Up Utilities for the last 2 year and its really good.
 

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  • CPU
    Q6600 (B3) @ 3.2
    Motherboard
    Xfx 780i
    Memory
    4 x 1gb Geil Ultra DDR2
    Graphics Card(s)
    2 x BFG 8800GT 512mb OC (Sli)
    Hard Drives
    2 x 320gb WD AAKS Raid 0
I used to use tuneup utilities but i found that i could do most of the things that it could do was built into vista anyways, apart from the reg defrag! so i stopped using it but im not saying its a bad app in anyway, TBH i try and limit the amount of optimizers i install on my system now because like i said vista can do it all for you.!
 

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xMichael said:
Thank you for your suggestions :)

Another thing, I heard that vista, unlike xp gets faster when you use it for longer. Is that true?
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That seems to be what I am experiencing. But only slightly faster.

Back to Reg Cleaners. There are good ones out there. Make sure if you do decide to buy one that it has a restore feature....and a feature where you click on an item in the to "clean" that it can give you an explaination how that file may have got there.
 

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used CCleaner on XP box and run it on vista, just checked the vista reg bit and have some games which did not work, unused file extensions like .XviD-NEPTUNE and similair things, piles of .php and .rar extensions from ripping websites :)


it backs up registry in any case :)
 

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CCleaner and Auslogic's Registry Defrag every once and a while.
 

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    Velocity Micro, HP Pavillion
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    Intel 2 Quad Core Q9400, AMD Athlon 64 x2 4400+
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    8 GBs DDR3, 4 GB DDR2 PC5300 (667 MHZ)
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    nVIDIA GTS 250 (over clocked), nVIDIA 6150SE n430
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xMichael said:
Thank you for your suggestions :)

Another thing, I heard that vista, unlike xp gets faster when you use it for longer. Is that true?
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I believe that is the Superfetch feature, which is faster than the prefetch in XP. The more you use Vista, the more it learns about what programs you like to use more often and will preload some of the files so that the applications you like the most will load faster when you need them.
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    Velocity Micro, HP Pavillion
    CPU
    Intel 2 Quad Core Q9400, AMD Athlon 64 x2 4400+
    Memory
    8 GBs DDR3, 4 GB DDR2 PC5300 (667 MHZ)
    Graphics Card(s)
    nVIDIA GTS 250 (over clocked), nVIDIA 6150SE n430
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    HP w1907
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    440 Watts
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    Velocity Micro
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    Fan
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    Logitech G15
    Mouse
    Trackman Marble ++
    Internet Speed
    2 mbps
glad so many of us are using ccleaner. check out the other tools at Piriform - The best software is free! and they are all free!! Ive been using ccleaner for the past 3+ years +/-. never let me down!

also "sandboxie" is a great little program to avoid adding any rubbish to your reg or pc in general.
 

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  • CPU
    INTEL CORE 2 QUAD Q6600
    Motherboard
    ASUS P5K-E WIFI P35
    Memory
    8GB DDR2 667MHZ KINGSTON
    Graphics Card(s)
    Nvidia Geforce 8800GTS 512MB G
    Hard Drives
    1 x Western Digital 500GB 16MB SATA2
CCleaner and Tune Up Utilities would always bork up my Cinema4D installation, to the point where I would have to reinstall. I don't like using registry cleaners for that very reason. However, registry defragmenters would be useful.

There were a couple of good registry cleaners like Advanced WindowsCare (the free version of which could be considered adware, but it's not malware) that didn't bork up my XP box, but I'm a little afraid of trying them on Vista because of other posts that indicate that it messes with your Disk Cleanup utility, causing most of your data to be deleted. I'm a very careful computer user after several years of trial and error, and if I'm gonna pay that much for a PC or a laptop, I'm darn sure not going to mess it up in my zeal to keep it clean.
 

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    Acer Aspire 4520
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    Memory
    4 gb
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    nVidia GeForce 7000
    Sound Card
    Realtek HD Audio
    Screen Resolution
    1280 x 800
    Hard Drives
    120gb
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