Best Registry Cleaner?

What is the best Registry Cleaner nowadays?

I have tried CCleaner and while it seems to be amongst the safes, it doesn't really remove all the bad registry entries..

I tried Wise Registry Cleaner which was highly recommended on Wilder Security Forums but I think it messed up my Notebook once...not too sue if it was because of it or something else

Just want to get some ideas here

I don't mind paying for a quality app so we are not restricted to FREE app recommendations here

Please share your honest/unbiased opinion

 

I used Wise Registry Cleaner when on XP and glad that I backed up the registry first because it borked the PC first time ever. NEVER again will I use that cleaner. Don't ask me how I got the PC working again but I did.

Safest is to use CCleaner imho and what Plodr said.

 

>> What is the best Registry Cleaner nowadays? I have tried CCleaner and while it seems to be amongst the safes, it doesn't really remove all the bad registry entries. Please share your honest/unbiased opinion. <<

Hello there berryracer,

Could you expand upon the above statement "while it seems to be amongst the safes, it doesn't really remove all the bad registry entries" with regards to CCleaner? What I mean is: could you provide a bit of evidence and/or proof to that effect? The reason that I ask is that there are countless other registry cleaners out there (free as well as paid versions) which show numerous errant registry entries; after scanning, in an effort to get users to move up from the freeware or trial version to the "pro" or paid version.

My "honest/unbiased opinion" is that it is never, ever a very good idea to use any particular cleaning utility; simply because it lists the most errors (after the initial scanning) and then offers to allow the user to 'clean' or 'repair' them. I can tell you from my own experience of testing literally dozens of these types of utility programs over the years that: Just because any cleaning application available on the web can LIST numerous supposed 'errors' does not necessarily mean that is a better (and/or or especially, safer-to-use) program. Also, I have yet to meet anyone who could tell the difference in the speed/efficiency of their system solely due to any particular registry cleaning. Yet I have met many users who have accidentally trashed their systems (and who lost all of their important data, as well), after over-using any 'cleaner utility' - especially when they choose not to do any sort of backup at all prior to attempting the cleaning. This is quite a price to pay for just using a "feel good" utility that supposedly offered the most errors to clean-up or repair.

Furthermore, I absolutely agree with the previous posts that state CCleaner is actually the 'safest' and thus best to use, particularly for those people who do not like having to repetitively and quite unnecessarily keep reinstalling their operating systems over and over again because of constant and overzealous registry cleaning.

That being said; I can also recommend using the freeware versions of Eusing Free Registry Cleaner as well as the Glary Utilities freeware suite (which among other things; includes a viable registry cleaner). Both of these are safe to use; but I still recommend choosing their setting to "back up" the registry before proceeding with the actual cleaning. I also like using both of these programs because; unlike CCleaner, the developer's will respond to any emails; without charging for the privilege.​

Good Luck! -- COMP

 

Trying to use registry cleaners can mess your computer up faster than anything else.

I'd use only ccleaner but only for the run cleaner option, not even the registry part.

Most all the experts, who know much more than me, will verify.

 

There is no "best" registry cleaner; the only designation that could be given is "least harmful".

However, even CCleaner's registry cleaner is not 100% safe; there are regular topics titled "CCleaner killed my computer!" and similar in the Piriform forums.

"Cleaning" the registry will not do anything for you or your Windows system. It will not make the registry smaller, faster, or more efficient. There may be unused registry entries, but that's just what they are: unused. Same as empty space.

If you have "bad" entries in the registry, then it's time to visit the malware forum.

 

Sooner or later, anyone who fools around with different Registry Cleaners very much, will eventually come to the conclusion
that the Best is actually probably the Safest that is also resonably effective.

Most people agree that CCleaner fits that description.

I do the same thing that plodr described using CCleaner and Revo Uninstaller.

There is also Iobit Uninstaller which is highly rated.
There is a video review by Major Attitude on the download page.

When registry entries are removed, as when uninstalling software, it can leave holes or gaps which just take up additional space.
When the computer is started, the entire registry is read and loaded into the system RAM memory.
If the gaps can be removed or collapsed, it will result in a smaller read and take up less space.

Registry Compactors can remove the wasted, unused space.
NTRegOPT works well for Windows XP.

Eusing Free Registry Defrag is another option.

Make a System Restore Point before you compact the registry.
Reboot after compacting.

 

While this is certainly true, the size decrease of a compacted registry is really not that big that it makes a noticeable difference. And these days when most computers have memory in the size of gigabytes, a few k more or less can safely be ignored.

I do not want to discourage anyone to keep their systems running smoothly, but all computers around me run smoothly, and none of them ever had their registry cleaned.