reg. cleaner

Hi to all,
Im looking for a good reg. cleaner that is free. I need one for someone who has never gone into his registry to change anything. I did a google search and there was about a million sites It would take me days to find what i needed. Being a newbie i wouldnt know if i picked a good one. What raised my curiousity was a post i read at Lavasoft support about a reg. cleaner. I checked that one out only to find it was a trial version. (30 days) It was at regvac.com.
Any suggestions would be appreciated!
Thank you.

 

Hi enigma,

Read this thread for some advice on regcleaners:
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=11850

Regards,

Pieter

 

Hi Enigma,

the first thing a newbie should do when considering
modifying the registry (or making recomendations to
clueless friends about modifying the registry) is to understand the registry and how it works FIRST.
NEVER modify (or allow other software to modify) your registry if you dont understand what it is doing and why. once you understand why and how to make the changes, you'll probably want to do it yourself anyway.

 

Hi to Pieter_Arntz,
After reading the links that were provided im going to wait for awhile before i try cleaning my registry I understand the Windows registry somewhat. I think calling myself a newbie was a bit of a stretch, but im going to take the advice of prof. here and wait awhile. I wanted to clean up the leftovers from uinstalled programs, short cuts, etc. But as i said before, im going to wait awhile. No need to s###w things up
Thanks to all.

 

Well the thing i do is when i first started from scratch on my pc i looked at all my programs on my registry program aka reg cleaner

then every time i installed something i look at the new registry entrys

kinda like a menatal note

and after i uninstall anything i look at my regstry algain and look for left over entrys

then i check those out then i delet ones that match with uninstall programs

 

I agree. Incase you want to understand it a bit more:
http://www.winguides.com/article.php?id=1

 

Other advice before you use any regcleaner is to make sure you have made some sort of backup of your system before any changes are made.

Preferably some sort of system image .

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=9925