I would never purchase a registry cleaner due to the limited benefits they offer and current freeware availability, including RegSeeker. Besides, registry cleaners often do more harm than good, deleting registry entries that are actually needed...One that reports 5,000 obsolete entries isn't much good if 1,500 of them are required for Windows to run properly. Thus, you should use registry cleaners with caution, always backing up the entries and reviewing the changes before deletion, and never choose a registry cleaner based on the number of entries it wants to remove.
John
I have installed 3 different types of registry cleaners to compare them. They are "Max Registry Cleaner," "PC Doc Pro 4.2," and "RegCure." RegCure has detected a total of 832 problems, Max Registry Cleaner has detected 635 problems, and PC Doc Pro 4.2 has detected 2,555 problems.
Here are the results for each registry cleaner:
Max Registry Cleaner:
Shared DLLs: 3
Application Info: 29
File Extension: 122
Empty Registry Key: 38
COM/ActiveX: 161
Deep Scan: 280
Windows/MSDOS Shortcut: 51
Windows Application Log: 1
RegCure
COM/ActiveX Entries: 33
Uninstall Entries: 0
Font Entries: 0
Shared DLLs: 1
Application Paths: 0
Help Files Information: 0
Windows Startup Items: 0
File/Path References: 217
Program Shortcuts: 61
Empty Registry Keys: 520
File Associations: 0
PC Doc Pro 4.2
Class IDs: 41
Interfaces: 5
TypeLibs: 1
Shared DLL's: 2
Font References: 6
File Associations: 39
File/Paths: 70
Empty Keys: 2,391
I have an HP Windows Vista Home Premium Desktop Computer with 2 Ghz dual CPU and it's an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+ 2.60 Ghz and I want to know which registry cleaner is the best one to buy.
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