Is there a good Windows Registry Cleaner out there?

I've got AVG Virus Scan and it works well. Is there a good free Registry Scan where it scans and fixes all errors?

there's many useful things, many free or trials. http://snapfiles.com

I will do that.

I've yet to find one that doesn't require a lot of manual intervention to make sure you're not throwing out Reg entries you need. Most of the cleaners scan your system and then rank keys they think are junk into "green, yellow and red" categories. You're supposed to be able to just dump the green ones, go through the yellow ones manually and leave the red ones alone. However, I've found over the years that chucking some of the "green" keys can lead to big problems, and that the yellow and red are best left alone. As a result, I've never found any of the cleaners to be particularly useful. Even the ones that haven't caused problems don't seem to offer any performance enhancement.

I usually reinstall WIndows from scratch about once a year. This gives me a dramatic speed boost for about six months, tapering off thereafter. If you don't want to do that, just defragment your drive and clean out all your temp files periodically. You'll get more benefit from that than from a Reg cleaner.

Point taken.

Microsoft's take is to periodically wipe your disk and reload everything.

I clicked into this thread when I saw that it had five responses - I figured at least 3 would be "get a Mac" but none of them are. Wonders never cease.

That said, I have no answer to your question. :P

Happy now? :hi:

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You can buy a Mac Mini for $600 or an iMac for $1,000, MacOS included. You still need a PC to run BSD on, so that cost has to be factored in as well.

OS X costs $130, so that's the real difference between BSD and MacOS.

C'mon. Let's get this PC vs. Mac flamewar on the road!

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On edit: Oh yeah, I forgot to bleat on about how iLife is worth about a squillion dollars, which makes Macs basically free! No, wait, they're better than free. It's like you make money for every Mac you buy! Yeah, that's it.

it's still a $600~$1000 savings, and I have yet to see what that $600 (or $1000) gets, but I highly doubt it'd be close to a comparable PC brand's specs. :evilgrin:

Also, your statement on OS X's price is wrong. If I could go to the Apple Store (CompUSA is gone) and buy OS X for $130, then I should be able to install it on my PC. Hence the $130 and not $600 cost. Apple's Mac is essentially a PC with an extra chip (a trusted module) to ensure OS X can install on it and not any other branded PC. (So, as with Compaq cloning IBM's original PC, when somebody clones that special chip it'll be fun to see how the law reacts...

We're supposed to be having an irrational flamewar about the trivial differences between Macs and PCs. How is this supposed to degenerate into vitriol and name calling if you insist on being logical?

Now try again, and this time with feeling! A good place to start is my contention that the presence of iLife makes Macs better than free. Refute that, you PC-frottaging jackalope!

I will never, ever go back to windows by choice.

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...bad dress sense, poor personal hygiene and can't get a date. Macs, on the other hand, are for super sexy movers and shakers, who drive fast (yet paradoxically ecofriendly) cars, date supermodels and spend most of their spare time working on being slightly less fabulous, so that others won't be jealous. Windows is for turnips.

LET THE FLAMES COMMENCE!

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you could have enough intellect to run Linux, you lazy sloth!

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As Shrubby and Jessica Simpson have so clearly demonstrated, the path to power and success is not paved with braincells. Cretinism trumps smarts every time. Come the Idiocracy, people like you will be the first ones up against the wall, you penguin-fondling nerd!

edited because my stupidity includes being unable to spell. Take that!!!!

my Apple polishing mediocre one! We who can Program the computers will rule the WORLD.

...will inevitably see their jobs outsourced to whoever can do it for a buck an hour less. Idiocy is something that can never be outsourced. What's more, America leads the world in moronism! Yay!1! We're number one! We're number one! (this space left blank for gratuitous Linux-related insult that I'm too dim to think up at the moment).

http://www.ccleaner.com/

Does a good job overall.

Haven't tried it in Vista yet...

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very useful little tool it is.

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silly girl......