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It completely removes a program while add/remove dosent seem to do it well
It completely removes a program while add/remove dosent seem to do it well
I have used Revo for years and it has never failed. Remember you get to pick and choose by ticking in Revo. Be careful, if you tick the wrong thing you might end up with a door stop. Also when using Revo you are only working with one program you are removing not the entire Windows registry.
IMHO registry cleaners are not needed but are used because people want to.
Last edited by Layback Bear; 07 Jul 2012 at 18:45.
You should be aware that some of the registry cleaner/optimizer apps that you see advertized out there on the 'net may actually be malware delivery mechanisms.
I don't think registry cleaners have provided any significant performance improvements since the Windows 95/98/Me days, where the registry was handled and structured differently, and I don't think it used indexing. With XP and later you've also got much better memory management. Even the pre-XP original NT line handled the registry better than 95/98/Me versions.
But I'm not sure if 95/98/Me even needed a registry cleaner if the machine didn't see a slew of app installs/uninstalls. I had one 95 machine that had quite a few apps on it that ran a full 10 years without a cleaning or OS reinstall, but it didn't see very many app uninstalls. And it always seemed to boot and run about as well as any other with similar hardware. I guess another thing that helped is the fact that it never got hit with any malware.
Although I'll use CCleaner on w7 systems you've got to wonder if deleting a few hundred or even a thousand dead/bad keys (which are either not used or ignored anyway) out of a million would allow you to measure much of a benefit. I think you would get a greater benefit just by consolidating the registry files themselves by performing a defrag.
Last edited by F5ing; 07 Jul 2012 at 19:19.