Recommended Registry Cleaner for Win 7 64bit

Hi

I have tried many registry cleaners over the years.

As others have said, take Images regularly as a fall back should anything go wrong.
Images are also the best way to clean out newly installed software you do not want to keep.

Some cleaners have trashed my system to varying degrees, CCleaner included.
As well CCleaner cleans very few entries.

What i have used with no ill-effects are:

Wise Registry Cleaner (free)
RegCure
jv16
TuneUp
Registry Mechanic
Glary Utilities (free)
MS RegClean (a very old MicroSoft developed cleaner no longer developed-this cleans out lots of entries)
RegSeeker (free) -only the green (safe) entries
AML Free Registry Cleaner (free)
Comodo Registry Cleaner (free) - now replaced and repackaged with Comodo bloat-ware bubdle which actually trashed my system and I no longer use

None so far have caused any issues (that i am aware of as of writing this)
Each cleaner targets slightly different reg entries so using more than 1 cleans more effectively (or trashes your system better i hear some of you say)

Run a cleaner or two after deinstalling a piece of software and see how many registry entries remain for the software supposedly removed.

The more software you install and remove the more your registry loads up with crap.
I say this needs to be cleaned out now and again.

I admit cleaning the registry does not seem to make a noticable speed difference.

Occasionally however, a registry clean up has sorted some minor issues because mis-information remained.

I recently scanned the Crashes and Debugging forum on this site. Lots of BSOD issues.

I have upgraded XP to Vista and Vista to Windows 7 with no issues.
Maybe it's because my registry is regularly cleaned out.
Maybe some of these Win7 BSOD issue could be fixed, especially upgrades, with a thorough registry clean out before and after.

*Always be in a position to reinstate your system when changing your registry*

cheers

The more software you install and remove the more your registry loads up with crap.
I say this needs to be cleaned out now and again.

If you uninstall your programs with the Revo Uninstaller, then this should not be necessary. And if you do not get any performance gain, why clean?

whs said:

The more software you install and remove the more your registry loads up with crap.
I say this needs to be cleaned out now and again.

If you uninstall your programs with the Revo Uninstaller, then this should not be necessary. And if you do not get any performance gain, why clean?

I agree and my preferred uninstaller is Total Uninstall Pro.

Did you know that Acronics Emergency Boot Disk does not support Wireless Mouse and Keyboard?

I too use Acronics, only to learn that I could not use my mouse and keyboard when booting to the rescue disk.
Acronics has confirmed this issue. They recommend using a USB or PS2 Mouse and keyboard.

Not good.....

I just had a problem with a USB mouse and keyboard.
The mouse was dead ... used the cursor and enter keys to get past the ATI boot screen ...
then the mouse started working.

luckily, i have no problems using both wireless keyboard and mouse when booting with Acronis Emergency Boot Disk

though, i do recall long long time ago having to use hardwired mouse/keyboard but this could have been with XP

hey WHS

i tried Revo long time ago and never came to grips with it
the program did not seem to search all files and registry to find left over bits
maybe i will have another try and see if it does what i want

i find manually searching all files (using a great program called 'Everything' and then a manual scan/search of the registry works great, often finding software remnants that reg cleaners do not