Are registry boosters worth the money

Pythagorous

I recently downloaded the Uniblue reg booster and surprisingly it brought up > 400 system related registry errors and > 100 user related errors! My laptop seems to be running okay, but I'm now wondering if its worthwhile getting one of these? What do you guys think?

RussJK

Uninstall it, and run a system restore to before you used it. Uniblue is known as a rogue company.

Now that Avira is championing Uniblue I suspect we'll be hearing more casual users installing it.

The last time a registry cleaner was noticeably useful was back in the late Windows 95 days when it would repair a corrupt registry, and maybe even 98 days (I used Windows 95C until the last possible moment before moving onto Win98SE). At best they might make a fractional difference, but the most noticeable change they'll make is to mess things up - such as when the system gets weird 'stuttering' effects using explorer or the system becomes unbootable.

david39

If you feel you need some form of cleansing or repair of your registry it comes as an option in CCleaner (Google the name) as a totally free download.

Also wipes junk and trashed files from your hard disc, cleans out your cookie file and can be used to clean the dross out of your Start Up files.

closed

not worth any money

esuhl

In the days of Windows 9x, I found that registry cleaners could fix a number of problems and speed up the OS, despite the risks. I certainly wouldn't have paid for one, though!!! Since Windows XP, I haven't found registry cleaners particularly useful, and given the problems they often cause, there seems little point in using them.

If the OS is so screwed up that you're thinking of using a registry cleaner, just re-install the OS - much safer and "cleaner".

GunJack

CCleaner and Glary, but niether are setructive and only clear out empty keys...never any problem with either

RussJK

GunJack wrote: »

CCleaner and Glary, but niether are setructive and only clear out empty keys...

But as Gunjack has discovered, they do cause a fault with keyboards that occasionally substitute the 's' key for the 'd' key

dixiebb

yes, ccleaner and Glary are v decent; otherwise, i would not mess with the registry keys .:cool:

GunJack

RussJK wrote: »

But as Gunjack has discovered, they do cause a fault with keyboards that occasionally substitute the 's' key for the 'd' key

..alright, it's been a long day

Pythagorous

Thank you for the advice. Will stick to the freebies!

baby_frogmella

Actually there is a decent registry cleaner out there...its called Jv16 powertools and i've been using it for a few years now when they were giving out free licences for it. When you uninstall any software, its very rare for it to completely remove itself from your PC and over time you can have a lot of junk files which shouldn't be there. Whenever i uninstall any software, i run jv16 immediately afterwards to remove leftover software registry keys...and its completely safe, as it backs up your registry before making any changes. Another feature i like of jv16 is that it can wipe your free hard disk space completely so your deleted files cannot be retrieved.
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