Registry cleaners - necessary? worth it?

Peter, My advice is to stay away from all Registry Cleaner Programs. They cause more problems than they fix.


Tufenuf

Never worth it.

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Mark

Sometimes necessary, most of the time, dangerous.

Registry repair software can remove items from the registry that make your PC run, without these items it will not work at all, that's the dangerous side. Sometimes the the registry gets so cluttered up that registry repair is needed to keep a PC working. Use registry repair software as a last resort when all else fails just before you reload a faulty OS. Using it then might keep your system going a bit longer. So use it only when you have nothing to loss.

over time ,your regstry will clog up. I have seen more than 11000 faults. But Advanced System Care even in the free version will be able to fix the problem for you.
Further try the "Revo Un-installer".It can also be downloaded for free. The main function, is to free your machine from unwanted programs. You will be surprised to see how widespread a downloaded program can go in other programs.
But on "page two" under functions, you will find a program: "remove unwanted files" On my grandchilds machine, we found may bee 500 parts of files that had been left over appearently for no reason at all.
Needless to say,but it became a new machine. good luck, skriver

You know how your computer slows down over time...it was fast when you got it and brought it home but slows down slowly until you're wondering what happened? Well, there's more than one reason for that. One reason is that software continually gets bigger, so new versions of software will run slower on the same computer. The other reason is that your computer collects junk, your disk gets fragmented, stuff collects that you're not aware of simply because you download and install software and then remove it, and it leaves behind piles of files in various places that just collect.

One of the best ways to clean your registry or improve your system's performance is to re-install your computer. This is especially true if you've had a serious virus, but in any case, after a few years of collecting stuff, any computer will benefit from a full re-install. It will go back to being the speed that you remember when it was new, although as you re-install the software that you need it will slow down some just from that. But it will be lots faster than before you re-installed.

There are many incremental things that you can do, like defragmenting your disk, making sure that you only start up the programs that you need (msconfig), and just being careful with what you install and remove, maxing out the physical memory in your system, and so on, but a full re-install really has the most beneficial effects.

-Roger

I have used ccleaner (it's free) every few months for many years. It's amazing how many bits and pieces of uninstalled programs and other junk are left in the registry. I have never experienced any problems from using it. Reboot times seem to speed up a bit.

It's amazing to say that using reg.cleaning programs is dangerous.The registry is rising permanently - cleaning and defragmented is advisible .No need to muck in depth of settings,only default and that's it.Foe example ,Wise registry cleaner (portable) is good choice.

If I were you I'd dump all and anything associated with this RegCure!!! I don't trust it and have bought it and it is not what you want believe me. Always be sure you have a backup on hand! and i mean for your whole computer! Especially be sure you have a boot disk etc.