What's The Safest Registry Cleaner and Registry Defrag (Free)?

Not an independent test? To say the least!!

Actually, Johnny Vuorio's tables re. competitive products do serve to provide some insight (such as, which don't uninstall cleanly), but it's hardly a definitive or objective source.

Truth is, I've given up on Macecraft (jv16) in disgust. For years, I held out some hope that Vuorio would progress to the point of being professional in his approach to development, but that shop just never gets any better. They have poor quality control, so the software they ship is buggy, chock full of defects and annoying quirks. Holding out hope, I used to pay for it -- but no more. I'm done with that shop!

 

Yeah Win7 x64

 

GlobalForce, nice answer.

I like Leo's summary...

"My fundamental belief is that the best registry cleaner is no registry cleaner at all."

http://ask-leo.com/whats_the_best_registry_cleaner.html

 

There are too many factors that slowdown/corrupt a partition that using a registry cleaner "shot gun style" can make matters much worst.

If you have a good understanding of rudimentary registry functions and use the cleaner cautiously in conjunction with "regedit" they can save a partition.

Using a registry cleaner/fixer to do the ordinary mundane stuff (remove remnants ect.) and then going into the registry to change values surgically is the sanest way to go.

I use Ccleaners' as it limits what will be cleaned. Mostly I use it to clean up after an uninstall.

 

The safest is not using one at all.

 

which version of jv16 power tools ?
because someone are buggy in the registry defrag

but i did not understand , you defrag your registry ,reboot and defrag it again , reboot , and defrag it again ?

thanks

 

+1

 

TBH with you i haven't noticed to be buggy so far and i have the latest version (2.0.0.981)

Regarding the reg defrag this takes place on reboot,so once you hit "Compact" it'll ask you to reboot,defrag starts during the reboot,and there are some cases which you'll need to continue the defrag on a windows environment...All this procedure in a single reboot.

 

That's what I do.

 

I use System TuneUp which is just a different GUI than Ace Utilities from Acelogix. I paid a discount price because I switched from another product. Also, that ended up being a lifetime license (even from version 2 through current version 3.0+) and I can install it on as many computers are used in my house. Not bad for a price of like $13 a few years back. It sure as heck beats an annual rate for a limited number of computers from JV16 or TuneUp Utilities. After reading the JV16 report I am glad I purchased from Acelogix.

 

Erunt with a BartPE CD or Windows Recovery Console. But, this in no way changes my belief that registry cleaners do more harm than good if used improperly and Erunt would have to be run before any registry cleaner was used. I should mention that I cleaned out Net Framework with multiple registry cleaners and compacted the registry down near 30% and I still did not achieve a noticeable decrease in boot time.

 

this i a nice informative thread and very good advice.i am impressed
i do use cc cleaner have for years and set at default never a problem..
itsmej

 

Anyone try Registry Clean Master?

It removed about 5-10 times as much registry crap as the other top performers according to this study. (117087 entries removed in the Choke test compared to 16520 by Ace Utilities, 15492 by jv16 PowerTools 2010, 14375 by MV RegClean 5, and so forth.... Fresh Windows test results were comparable.)

 

In the Fresh Windows test, the Least errors are the Best.
300 errors or Less are from the Best (=Green-Line) products.

Registry Clean Master found 108694 and, therefore,
it is not included in the Best (=Green-Line) products.

In the File Reference Analysis Accuracy test,
-500 or more errors from the 1000 Test errors
and
-0 False Positives
are from the Best (=Green-Line) products.

Registry Clean Master had 0 False Positives,
BUT it found 0 Test Errors from the 1000 ones,
it is not included in the Best (=Green-Line) products.

As you can see HERE ,
Registry Clean Master isn't included in
the Recommended products List
which refers to the products that made it through All Tests.