Vista - Wise Registry Cleaner vs AusLogics Registry Defrag vs CCLeaner?

Hello there,

I've been looking around for a registry defragment tool/cleaner tool for windows vista to keep my laptop and desktop in top shape.

Both are running Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit Edition.
Both have at 4gb of ram (laptop has additional 1gig intel turbo flash cache for ready boost)

I saw
Wise Registry Cleaner
AusLogics Registry Defrag
CCLeaner

What else is there?
What's the most effective?

if you are not confident enough to edit the registry manually, then leave
well alone. Registry cleaners are not going to help and are more likely to
cause problems than solve them. Personally I use CCleaner 'but' I only use
the 'cleaner' section, I don't use the 'registry' cleaner.

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"Coderedpl" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
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Well I wouldn't say I'm not confident in doing it myself, but it would definitely make my life easier.

On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:10:23 -0500, Coderedpl wrote:
Why I don¢t use registry cleaners!
http://www.edbott.com/weblog/archives/000643.html

On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:21:03 -0500, Coderedpl
<guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote:

Defragmenting is fine, but registry cleaning programs are *all* snake
oil. Cleaning of the registry isn't needed and is dangerous. Leave the
registry alone and don't use any registry cleaner. Despite what many
people think, and what vendors of registry cleaning software try to
convince you of, having unused registry entries doesn't really hurt
you.

The risk of a serious problem caused by a registry cleaner erroneously
removing an entry you need is far greater than any potential benefit
it may have.

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Defragmenting the Registry is worth doing. As for registry cleaner's they
are, to be honest, a waste of space. After I replied to your post yesterday
I downloaded Wise registry cleaner, and Auslogic.

A quick test produced the following:

Auslogic could claim back 11% of my registry by defragmenting it: Ok that
was fine I allowed it to do that. Having said that I didn't detect any
increase in startup speed.

CCleaner. This I already use, but have never used the registry cleaner. On
using the registry cleaner it flagged 4 errors. All 4 errors were MRU (most
recently used) website URL's. I knew what they were so allowed CCleaner to
remove them.

Wise Registry Cleaner. I ran this and I flagged well over 100 errors. At
least 50 of these it wasn't sure whether it could remove them safely or not.
The remaining 50 it said could be deleted but as most of the entries were
CLID's (which basically include a long string of numbers) without me
actually noting the CLID and then manually checking the registry I wasn't
prepared to let Wise registry cleaner remove them.

That was a simple, quick, test, nothing scientific. But why did Wise
registry cleaner flag so many registry problems compared to CCleaner? The
chances are that Wise registry cleaner hit so many 'false positives' that
removing them 'may' have caused more problems or me than leaving them. And
why did Wise registry cleaner advise me that 50% of the flagged errors
needed further consideration before 'I' took the decision to remove them. If
the registry cleaner was any good it should make the decision for me not, as
has happened here, start dithering!

While I agree 'it would make life easier' there is still an element of doubt
and, personally, I feel that that element of doubt isn't worth taking.

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"Coderedpl" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
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"John Barnett MVP" <freelance@xxxxxx> wrote in
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FWIW, I have used registry function in CCleaner on numerous occassions
now and AFAIK never had a problem with it. One thing I have noticed
(and not only with CCleaner but also other registry proggies I've tried
out) is that they may not get all the broken links on the first pass;
that is, removal of broken links on the first pass will then seem to
generate other links that also need cleaning up....therefore I run
multiple scans untill all error messages disappear.

.......others MMV. :-)

I highly use lots of different registry cleaners, and im recently using, uniblue powersuite, registry mechanic, registry first aid platinum, registry repair, registry easy, registry genius, registry fix, ccleaner. And it affects my whole system performance up to 300% more