Do I Need a Registry Cleaner? - Comments Page 3

I've been using Ccleaner and its built in registry cleaner for 5 years without a single issue. The registry cleaner built in to the Glary Utilities Free works better and finds more items. The best cleaner I've yet used is the stand alone Eusing Free Registry Cleaner. It finds even more things in the registry than Glary's does. I use all three cleaners and have never had any registry problems afterwords. I do back up my registry before each and every cleaning with ERUNT cuz you just never know. I must place myself in the camp that has received significant performance improvements after a good registry cleaning. After running the Eusing Cleaner on a friends PC that found nearly a thousand items, a cleaning made a major improvement to that PC's speed. I'm a believer.

RE: CCleaner -- Bob: Your article fails to mention that this software includes the Google Toolbar and there is no way I can see to avoid installing it along with the Cleaner.

EDITOR'S NOTE: There is a checkbox during the install process. I just tried it with a fresh download...

Hi, Bob, I need help that about my facebook thats has locked me out and I dont know what causes it....so I also need clears as all of thur the internets and my mobile facebook ( my cellphone) plus need stay " Onlines "....I thinks probably from virus or hacked or something go on.......Its need stop from any causes it.......thanks

I ran CCleaner and fixed everything it found, ran it again and found no problems. Immediately ran Uniblue and it found 140 errors. Then ran RegSeeker and it found 758! I don't know what to make of the monstrous discrepancy, whether CC is inadequate or RegSeeker is too aggressive? Does this mean Uniblue is just right???

I would nor recommend RegSeeker to a novice, I have found that as long as you only delete the green entries from RegSeeker your not to bad. RegSeeker can find hundreds if not thousands of entries so be carefull as if you have not made a restore point, you may end up that you have to do a reinstall.
360 Amigo is a good free one.

I've been using cc cleaner for a couple months and it works perfectly but also I've used Eusing Free Registry Cleaner and it seems to work fine but I prefer cc cleaner it seems more helpful in my opinion

as always you dont need a register cleaner !!... simpel remenber how many accident did hapend and after they came to asks for " " HELP " " its just to sell a usless system , so good luck

Bob, what do you think of ADVANCED SYSTEMCARE? I do have and run daily ccleaner and after that Advanced SystemCare. Some times after running ccleaner, AdvancedSystem care does find other registry entries to delete.

CCleaner is free to do a scan but doesn't seem to do any cleaning until you pay for it. That doesn't sound free to me.

EDITOR' NOTE: Are you sure you downloaded the right program? I just ran the latest version of CCleaner, and all of the Analyze and Cleaner functions ran fine. I was not asked to pay for anything.

Thanks for the review Bob!
Some say you need to clean the Registry, so say not.
Some say to leave your computer on all the time, some say not.
Me, I turn off my computer when I'm done working with it, and I run Ccleaner just to get the unwanted junk lazy Programmers were suppose to cleanup out of the registry after the uninstall of their programs in the first place :P

I have been using different reg cleaners for many use with my computers with XP, and having mixed results s,imilar to many comments on this forum. I have recently upgrade to Win 7 on two of my machines and have been thinking about reg cleaners for them, but have read on many forums that this can be dangerous, especially with reg seeker, as the registry is supposed to be much different on the latest windows OS.

So... is a reg cleaner needed for Win 7??

I just purchased Speedy Computer to fix over what it scanned as over 6000 registry errors. I ran the program and it claims all my errors fixed. My computer runs slightly faster now, but videos are still loading slow. Does this particular program have any known problems/bad reviews?

I have been using RegSeeker v.1.55 for over ten years, on both XP and Windows 7 Pro, and have never trashed my registry I use ONLY the AutoClean, set to 2 passes, and it gets the job done now, automatically, removing only the green entries: never had a problem.

Now and then I use the excellent and thorough Wise Disk Cleaner which misses what CCleaner (also excellent and indispensable) finds. Lastly I clean the registry with RegSeeker's AutoClean. Now and then I use Wise Registry Cleaner which has #1 spot in Gizmo's TechSupportAlert for free registry cleaners and also sports a registry backup facility.

RegSeeker is very good for finding left-overs from
the free Revo Uninstaller, which always leaves plenty of keys behind, also files and folders in the OS, but one must exercise care to enter the EXACT name of the uninstalled program, even to spacing. Well-defined names that would make nonsense words with prefixes or suffixes, present no problem, but names like Opera will bring up pages of opera in blue, with "tion" adjoining it in black - RegSeeker has found plenty of keys with "operation" as well! So a search through the findings will reveal the true Opera left-overs.

"Everything" (Search) is excellent for finding Revo's left-overs in the OS. Everything finds everything! Again, exercise care. Leave well alone if you are not sure. And by the way, left-overs can be deleted right from Everything.
If one double-clicks an entry, it takes one to the
place where the item is installed, so it can be identified.

If you need an outstanding tool, buy iolo Technologies' System Mechanic. It's often available for $14.99, and will keep your OS running fully optimized. It can be scheduled too.
It has an excellent registry cleaner and registry backup facility. Tweaking.com All-in-one also has a perfect Registry Backup and Restore option.
(Major Geeks)

Thank you Mr Editor of Ask Bob Rankin's outstanding site for allowing us a voice!

Be very very careful with using any registry cleaner, more often that not it can do great damage to your computer or at the very least not boot at all. I have been through this many times myself. Being a computer tech, I can tell you to use great caution to using them.. The answer is, if your not sure of yourself, then don't.

There is little proof that it actually helps at all in all reality and you may (as I have) end up sorry and angry you used one. If you do use them, which is optional with you, know what your doing. All too often it if it sounds too good to be truth it probably is.

Just my opinion is all and one wants to be especially careful with windows 8 and 8.1 as it is very fussy about what is deleted, sometimes it pay to just leave well enough alone if your not having problems. I have cleaned out registries many times and saw no real improvement accept to make me feel better and then there were times I would say, Oh no here we go again, problems.

When in doubt don't and any computer tech will tell you, if it is the registry, don't unless there is no other choice....

For my registry maintenance needs I use the Registry Clean Expert, which is not free but works great. I've been using it for years and have never had any problems.

There is a free registry defrag utility available for download that works just as well.

http://www.registry-clean.net

Yes I have been using regedit for many years but do be do use care be sure to back it up before you do anything

Hi Bob,
I am relatively new to your website. I didn't know exactly where to go with my request so I'm posting it here, although my issue is not with the Registry function of CCleaner.
My question is: Can you advise how to rectify this problem?
I have been having difficulty with the free edition of CCleaner.
While in the Analyze stage when it gets to "Firefox Internet Cache" it gets gets stuck at the 34% mark.
I then cancelled the session and proceeded to use the Run Cleaner tab.
After cleaning was complete I receive a notice saying "Firefox-Internet Cache-skipped" and "Firefox-Internet History-skipped."
This has happened every time I run the program.
Any advice to get CCleaner to proceed normally would be very much appreciated.
My system is: Vista Home Basic 32bit Service Pack 2
Many thanks for your time and expertise.

G'day Bob
Intend purchase of Galaxy 10.1" tab.How to transfer from laptop to tab, and what extra items would I need for this. Regards : K.C.

EDITOR'S NOTE: The Galaxy Tab runs the Android operating system, not Windows. So you can bring your photos, documents, etc. But your Windows software will not work on the Tab. I suggest you upload your important files to Google Drive, and then you'll be able to access them from the Tab.

This is a perfect example of my earlier request that you DATE your articles. I got really excited about attempting reg clean... until I read the comments going back to 2011 and realized this is really old and likely not relevant in the age of Windows 10.

Oh, well. Back to the drawing boards.

Again, it would be helpful if you would date your articles.

Otherwise, keep up the good work. BTW - I like your wry sense of humor displayed in the opening paragraphs to this article.