Registry Cleaner

Discussion in 'Software' started by boneyeye, Mar 22, 2016.

  1. boneyeye

    boneyeye Corporal

    Does anyone here have experience with Tweek Bit fix-my-pc. Is it safe to use. Thank You. Boneyeye
     
  2. plodr

    plodr MajorGeek Super Extraordinaire Moderator Staff Member

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  3. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Hi

    Personally registry cleaners can cause more issues than they fix, they are not so bad if you have an app e.g antivirus that was a corrupt install and you uninstalled and wanted to re-install but you are told it cannot dues to a instance already installed, then a registry cleaner is likely ok (a lot of "geeky" types would manually edit the registry but need to know what to look for and whats safe to delete).

    Cleaning the registry is not going to magically make your PC run quick as there is not much to be gained in space from removing a few old redundant entries, the registry HIVES are on most PCs around 130MB+/- so shaving a few KB off that will not make much difference, some apps highlight some entries as CRITICAL (some anti-malware apps do this with tracking cookies to make them out a serious malware) and that's a bit scary for some when you see this, but not everything is Windows OS destroying, some can be just temp entries, older update references that do no harm at all thus ending up with the trade off with running a registry cleaning app is it may delete a needed KEY a none working Windows.


    As for the app you list, not used it and likely would not have personally, did come across this review HERE
     
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  4. boneyeye

    boneyeye Corporal

     
  5. boneyeye

    boneyeye Corporal

    Thank you both very much for advice I will not use it now and stay with my old reliable CrapCleaner which I have used for yrs without any probs. Thank you again. Boneye
     
  6. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Yes, CCleaner has a well trusted registry cleaner as its not as overly scanning as others who should leave some HIVES alone.
     

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