Registry cleaner.

Irish Steve

Dude111 wrote: »

You can also try REGSEEKER (This is the one I love)

www.fosshub.com/RegSeeker.html

Yes, that looks to be a useful utility, just run it across the machine here, took a while to run, didn't seem to do anything nasty, and certainly found some old and out of date entries in there that are not needed, and are probably slowing things down some.

Worth giving a run, with the caveat of take backups of things before you commit to changes, which it does offer.

cosmowillie53

I read a number of reviews on Regseeker and they all suggest that its more suitable for the more advanced user which we know I'm not (except in years)..
Should I give it a try anyway ?

Irish Steve

I downloaded it earlier, and gave it a go at my machine here, and it found a load of orphaned records that may not have been doing any harm, but they are for sure better out of there. If you're not happy about an option, then don't run the next phase, and it will leave things as they are without making changes.

Dude111

cosmowillie53 wrote:

I read a number of reviews on Regseeker and they all suggest that its more suitable for the more advanced user which we know I'm not

Well to be fair ALL REG CLEANERS ARE NOT FOR BEGGINERS!! -- They CAN do alot of damage if you dont know what your doing!! (Removing all the entries from the STARTUP TAB for example)

But of all the reg cleaners I have used,REGSEEKER is my favourite! (First time i used it IT FOUND 850 KEYS!!!!! (It got a home straight away))

cosmowillie53

Thanks for the interest.
Can you see a way I can use it without doing damage..bit by bit.
From what I've read its a cleaner with real attitude.

danjo-xx

cosmowillie53 wrote: »

Thanks for the interest.
Can you see a way I can use it without doing damage..bit by bit.
From what I've read its a cleaner with real attitude.

+1

is there any basic steps that dummies like us can follow to safely use this tool to do just a general clear out of junk from time to time.


I've been using glary utilities for yrs now without tweeking any settings and never had a problem. It cleaned up stuff that ccleaner didn't catch.

Irish Steve

Will try and put some basics notes together, but it may not be for a few days, have to sort some non computer issues first

cosmowillie53

Update on my computer..
A few weeks ago it went into startup repair mode and stayed there. A friend of a friend who knows his way around a computer ( this I found out by chance) took my machine away for a few days and set it back to factory setting .
Its working away a treat now...lets hope that continues for some time.
I want to say thanks to everyone on here for all the help.
Thanks.

Dude111

Im glad she is working good buddy