Free Window Registry Repair - TPFC

rodger123

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 01:55:36 -0400

nice program to really mess up your system-had to reinstall outlook express!Try googling" regcleaner last freeware version"that program is safe and been using it for years-you can install a program then open regcleaner and it will show you what keys have been added-that same comany made regsupreme which I use but no longer made-that has never caused me any problems.regcleaner has an installer but does not write to the registry-dont know if it works on windows 7 but try maybe.

spicydog

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:27:15 -0500

I totally second lautrepay's opinion about Argente Registry Cleaner.
Happy holidays everybody!

lautrepay

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:45:11 -0500

IMHO, the best registry cleaner is Argente Registry Cleaner. Supports 64-bits and there's a portable version. I'll probably add it to the database next month. www.argentesoftware.blogspot.com/

dany

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:44:16 -0500

Yea, CCleaner has a fairly decent registry cleaner but that one also reports false positives. Example: CC reports 28 ActiveX and Class Issues but I know that they are all valid entries and removing them will cripple my OS. I learned that the hard way.
Never trust these tools and always, always verify and backup before messing with your registry.
NB: @Emka and others as well, nowhere on the site is it mentioned that Free Window Registry Repair supports 64-bit systems, so that alone could mess up the results.
NB 2: In my previous post scanner should read cleaner of course.

abc

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:07:42 -0500

CCleaner behaves so much better than most standalone registry cleaners, I've tried others and they clean up way too much than necessary.

dany

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 10:59:36 -0500

@Emka: Depends. Some (or most) are most likely orphaned keys from programs not installed anymore (safe to remove).
But there is also software that depends on the existence of those empty keys (leave them alone!).
Or they could be keys not in use yet (could be safe to remove but useless to do so).
Either way, calling it an 'error' is too simplistic as registry scanners usually can not distinguish between the above categories. My tip is to evaluate keys individually (google them) or apply the golden rule and just leave them alone.
Registry scanners are highly overrated anyway imho.

Emka

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:15:34 -0500

Can one trust this on Win7x64? On my machine, it finds almost 2,000 errors, most of them empty keys. Doesn't that sound too much?

atemi

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:24:28 -0500

Very good comment joost,i need to try mvregclen
i learn somthing today
Thank you !

joost

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 18:07:18 -0500

agreed atemi, i am using a triple(o) (don't know if this is the correct word)
of: regseeker, argente and mvregclean. all of them used for a long time. of course tried all of those dozens of other ones: no benefits.
regseeker is obviously good (no need for updates!, final version 1.55 has experimental services scanning and does so without mistakes), mvregclean goes system deep, finds (current)-controlset 01, 02 orphans and argente does very deep dependency checking regarding to exe-files.
this couple never let me down.
and for the extra redundancy, use cleanafterme and forget about crap-cleaner!

atemi

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 11:12:28 -0500

Regseeker,best registry cleaner for me,safe and light

anon

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 10:47:25 -0500

Any experiences with this on Win7x64?

vivi

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:56:35 -0500

ok guys, you make your minds on whether this program can cause damages or not...

Boomshanka

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:04:07 -0400

Have used this for years and I have never had any problems with it. A good, basic registry cleaner.

Flyguy

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:16:43 -0500

Been using it for nearly a year. Works fine for me.

Y!M

Sat, 26 May 2007 02:58:33 -0400

Oh my God, this is the "best" registry fixer I have ever founded!

Yuval M.

Mon, 14 May 2007 07:31:04 -0400

I can confirm TwistedMetal's experience with v1.2 - too many valid entries.

Shodan

Mon, 14 May 2007 00:54:26 -0400

TwistedMetal is right on target! This puppy identified MANY necessary and critical files and folders for deletion, including my Windows Help folder! Better to pass on this one.

Michiel

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:19:03 -0500

I disagree with Twisted, I find that it is actually very thorough and makes a proper automatic backup before hacking and slicing. I scanned with ccleaner before I ran this; 2 missing file entries. Then I ran this and some 600 entries. I verified a couple at random existed and they did and were all obsolete/irrelevant.

Of course, you will have to compact the registry after this to remove the 'whitespace' where the deleted entries were, see;
http://www.aumha.org/freeware/freeware.php#ntregopt

TwistedMetal

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:57:19 -0500

I would say away, it's not very safe. It will find 1,000's of valid entries.