Which Registry Cleaner?

[krishcanag]

Hello

Its a minefield out there, all seem to have there own product to push and different mags. have different results.

I have been using registry mechnic 5 and add no major issue, but I might be having with registry mechnic 7 or perfect disk, not sure.

WHAT IS THE SAFEST REGISTRY CLEANER?

regards

krishan

[quickoldcar]

Uncheck the "install yahoo toolbar"

http://filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/

[Foggy]

This is very good

http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_...ry_cleaner.htm

[TrendyMartini]

Quote:

Uncheck the "install yahoo toolbar"

http://filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/

I concur, CCleaner is the best.

[krishcanag]

well I took the dive and loaded cccleaner. Now I found it very confusing. I did not know what is safe to remove, only thing I removed in registry was invalid links and icons.
In the internet screen I removed whatever it said.

I wish there was a manual on reading the different issues it shows up.
This was registry mechnic was much eayier to read, though I used to just click ok to all.

krishan

[aj_t2]

try system mechanic.....it has registry cleaner and much more....

[krishcanag]

well again after a few reboots I noticed that again I have lost both CD-ROM drives, not displayed under my computer. not sure if this happened after cccleaner or after finally trying perfectdisk8 again..

krishan

[Chuckiechan]

Go back into your cleaner program, there are probably backups to restore back to pre-clean.

[DoctorReno]

With Ccleaner just make a backup of the registry first. And if some old backups have been there for months consider them ok to remove. I spent a couple months a year ago on a qwest to find the best registry cleaner and compared exactly what was found to be removed by each program. Each had minor advantages. IMO Ccleaner does the best average of all. Also in my experience you can safely delete everything that Ccleaner finds. I have honestly never had a problem. Remember you have a backup of the registry so you can restore to a non/less problem time.

[krishcanag]

I tried that, what I did was before each program run, for cccleaner and before running perfectdisk8 I made restore points. In the case of perfectdisk I switched off restore as this was causing multiple attempts to correct metadata file fragments. I do not know after which of the 2 programs caused me to loose the drives but I suspect perfectdisk not cccleaner.
With regard to backups, I did the create restore points I also did a full registry export to external hard drive. When I tried to import it it failed, so when everyone says create a backup, what am I supposed to do that does work?

regards

krishan
PS. I am going on loaded my programs again and this time I will only load either reg mechnic or cccleaner no perfectdisk and see if my cdrom's don't disappear. The first hint of trouble is they stop autoloading, so I change the value in registry key to enable autoload.