Pros
*Scans and corrects registry errors/redundancy
*Can easily undo changes made to the registry
*Has the ability to defrag registry
*Has the ability to backup/restore registry

Cons
*Is aggressive and slow (relatively speaking, compared to CCleaner)
*Developer lists a bunch of fake awards from popular downloading website

Free Alternatives
Advanced SystemCare
WinUtilities Free

Final Verdict
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Ashraf from dotTech  –  11 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+124)

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30 $ + Fake awards?

After using it found about 1000 registry errors...but once rebooting my system I performed another scan and guess what? It found again 1000 errors....LOL...it looks like even the registry errors are FAKE!

So it would be nice if the developer wrote a couple of lines to explain us such a weird and suspicious behaviour of his app!!

In the meantime.....


* Auslogics Registry Cleaner (==> My personal First Choice)
http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/registry-cleaner

* (Portable) Wise Registry Cleaner
http://www.wisecleaner.com/wiseregistrycleanerfree.html

* Registry Trash Keys Finder
http://www.trashreg.com/rtkf_eng.html

* Baku 4.3.4369
Excellent FREE tool which searches for registry errors and unnecessary files in your HD and then it safely removes them from your system.

Key features:

- Locate duplicate files on your system (while ignoring system files)
- Deletes empty folders, History folder contents, Recent documents folder contents, Temporary folder contents, temporary internet files, cookies
- Searches Windows log files, shortcuts to missing files and folders and user specified file types
- Removes unused and obsolete keys, including ActiveX/COM, Application Paths, Fonts, Help files, Icon files, Sound files, Uninstall Programs and Windows Installers
- The registry is automatically backed up before any changes are made
- Implements the standard DOD 5220.22-M, to give you confidence that once deleted, your file data is gone forever (if Eraser is installed it will be used instead).
- Clears MRU lists from many applications including Media Player, eMule, Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office, Nero, Adobe Acrobat, WinRAR, WinAce, WinZip, etc.
- Compacts the registry hives to the minimum size possible
- Heuristic based scanning of applications MRU lists
- Ability to backup and restore the entire system registry and the system device drivers

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Registry-Tweak/Baku.shtml

==> ALL FREE and FLAWLESS REGISTRY CLEANERS !!

Want just a great FREE Registry Defragger?

http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/registry-defrag
http://www.winmend.com/registry-defrag

My 2 cents for today's giveaway!!

Enjoy!!

Giovanni (Why pay money?? Money? What is it?)  –  11 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+104)

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If it's so good, why does it need to list fake software awards? Thanks but no thanks.

oliviab  –  11 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+101)

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For anyone tempted to DL this and install, do note the developer's own words:

It wins in extreme scanning breadth and depth, so that it can find more registry entries than any other registry cleaner.

What that means, is: its scanning engine has been programmed by the developer to go into your computer with a high-pressure hose rather than a feather duster.

You're not signing up to a little light dusting, the kind of thing which would, for instance, easily tidy up that pesky MRU list. You're signing up to a full-scale assault on registry entries which the programmer -- someone you don't know, someone who has never heard of you and certainly hasn't the foggiest notion how your particular machine is configured -- which this unknown programmer *thinks* needs cleaning up.

Never mind whether you can 'restore' the registry afterwards. (Though actually, you should mind: restores aren't guaranteed to work.) Never mind that you can create a Restore Point in Windows and roll back to it. (Though you should mind: System Restore is anything but the certainty so many claim it to be.)

I ran this cleaner last year when it first appeared on GAOTD. Its scan results were hugely impressive. Because they were impressively huge. I couldn't see half the errors it had identified because the GUI couldn't display 'em. But the number of 'found errors' was sufficient for me not to go any further and uninstall there and then.

If I am going to go anywhere near my computer's registry, then as with all delicate and precious objects, I'll do so with a feather duster. Or rather, two feather dusters. One is called Revo Uninstaller, which is so well known it really should need no explaining here and which, because it's free, ought to be on everyone's computer:

http://www.revouninstaller.com/revo_uninstaller_free_download.html


The other duster is Piriform's CCleaner,

http://www.piriform.com/


because its registry cleaning function has proved over time to be as light and as carefully considered as it gets.

Today's developer seemingly operates in a quite different world, where the amassing of huge numbers of errors-that-may-not-be-errors, as well as the flaunting of awards-that-may-not-be-awards, go hand in hand.

On which basis, I can't for the life of me fathom why anyone would want to go anywhere near AthTek Registry Cleaner 2.0. Thanks, GAOTD, but definitely, no thanks.

MikeR  –  11 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+63)

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So, yes, there are potential dangers to using a Registry cleaner, yes it may do more harm than good. BUT the program backs-up the registry automatically before starting unless turned off manually, so any problems can be easily repaired by restoring the old Registry.
@Roger: You are very ill-informed about the registry. As someone who manually edits the registry quite often, there are a number of things that you should know about the Registry:
1) The registry has a set amount of space allocated to it at the front (Fastest) part of the drive. The default settings give it a bit of space to grow, but if you never clean it you will end up having part of your registry on the end (Slow) part of the drive, that will slow down your system significantly. True, it is better to change the registry allocation in the first place, but still, cleaning it reduces size, speeding up the system, mostly not BOOT time, but file access time, etc.
2) Have you ever installed a large Font pack on your computer? Most people know someone who has, it can bring a brand-new, top-of-the-line computer to a crawl. Why? because every Font must load into RAM at boot, & must stay there. The same with the registry. The larger the registry, the less usable RAM you have. Plus the excess fonts take up space in the Registry.
3) Excess registry entries are referenced ALL THE TIME by the system. If you have a System directory entry, it takes 1/100th of a second every time you open, save or run anything. Now imagine you have 100 System directory entries. that is an extra second it takes to do anything. Then you have the entries that point to things that do not exist. Every one of them will search a stack for each system directory if it does not find it where it says it is, then it will refresh the directory tree to make sure it has an up-to-date one. That significantly slows the system EVERY TIME that part of the registry is accessed.
4) No, Cleaning the registry is NOT going to cause a significant speed-up for most users, You will likely never notice the difference, but your hardware will work a little less & will therefore last longer. You can also avoid those pesky Compatibility errors that sometimes pop up when you KNOW it is compatible. Those are usually Registry-based problems.
If you are looking at "Boot time" as the definition of "Running faster" then yes, you are correct, but a well maintained registry does a lot to improve performance.
Now, that being said, I have run this program on a computer that has a significant amount of registry junk. Found 86,000 faults. I went through a good many of them & checked them, The only true concerns I had were with the Uninstaller Entries. I checked, & every one of the 'Errors' it reported are NOT Errors & should not be deleted. I then continued to run the program again as a different Administrator account, It returned 15,000 errors, Meaning it looks at the User-level registry as well, Again, Uninstall entries were the only real concern, with a few minor concerns with some of the 'Settings' category entries that I was uncertain about & was too much monotony to investigate further. I do NOT like how it cannot be run for a Non-Administrator account on the User Registry only, as that is where most of the Registry problems tend to occur & I hate making them Admins, even temporarily. With all that said & done, I would still recommend Comodo (Which is free) over this.

LostOnTheLine  –  11 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+60)

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