What is a good registry booster?

Anyone got a software for a free registry booster?

 

Registry boosters and defraggers are gimmicks that do nothing to improve performance. Don't waste your time or money on one. If you happen to disagree though, I'd be happy to read an article that demonstrates otherwise.

If you want something to clean your hard disk and delete unnecessary registry keys, use Ccleaner.

 

Bog, would you post that article? I'd appreciate having it.

 

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Gary

 

I actually asked for an article showing that registry boosters and similar products deliver performance gains. I'm not aware of any such evidence.

 

Ok that was actually my main question if registry "boosters" actually did anything.
So they are worthless

 

Yeah, use Glary Utilities and Ccleaner registry cleaner portion. They will at least get rid of fragments and clean it up a bit.

 

That's just so counter-intuitive. I mean really, running a program to make other programs run faster? Perpetual motion?

 

X2 for CCleaner

Registry boosters are pure gimmicks.

 

Ccleaner will clean your registry but not boost it. I'd say download it, and don't think of other registry cleaners...
But I don't know if so called registry defraggers "boost" the registry, so can't help you out with that one

 

Glary Utilities is better than ccleaner imho, but I use them both.

 

I use Cclenaer and never had issues with it.

Bottom line is that cleaning up the registry does nothing for performance.
It simply keeps the registry tidy/clean.

 

I find that a good program to use when uninstalling is 'Revo uninstaller'.
This highlights all registry items related to the removed program, and lets you chose what (if any) files you wish to remove from the registry.
This incidently is also a program from the makers of Ccleaner (Piriform).

 

Registry defragmenting won't give you a noticeable speedboost, but there's no denying that if you had a huge registry the size of a terabyte (obviously impossible) and you defragged it it would speed up.

Yes, it's too small to notice on our tiny little registries.
Yes, there will be a tiny impossible to see speed up.

 

That is quite correct, but by using programs like Ccleaner, Defraggler, and Revo uninstaller, this would prevent a registry being bogged down with unused files and would assist in keeping your computer clean to some degree.

 

registry booster from uniblue is a good one but there is a trick it's a registry cleaner like the one in ccleaner

 

That begs the question: then what's the point? I have seen all the reports that indicate that the cleaners do nothing for performance, so I have never bothered to use one. If performance is not an issue why should I care if the registry is tidy and clean? What benefit would I get?

Gary

 

Please explain to me exactly how additonal un-needed entries "bog down" the system in any way?

Gary

 

Registry cleaner done nothing to performance, but it helped me to run programs without annoying errors/function properly
Eg: ATI always giving me headache when i install new drivers without cleaning registry. New driver sometimes not working properly if i have leftovers from previous driver. Cleaning the registry helped me to remove those old entries, which helped new version to work properly.

 

I've had a a cleaner clear up some minor issues here and there. Wouldn't say anything was faster, but some annoying nigs got fixed.

Have used Registry mechanic myself, but wouldn't call it necessary, just handy once in a while.

 

I just meant that, is it not better to get rid of old registry items rather than have them lying around doing nothing. As for performance issues i wouldn't see any benefits and have not experienced this myself. Although I have had a couple of issues when uninstalling and re-installing the same software when installation wouldn't work propperly, I found that cleaning the registry of old files helped in the re-installation.
Cheers.

 

As a TOOL to deal with very specific issues such as the one you cited about a re-installation problem, registry cleaners make a lot of sense, but only in the specific context of removing entries (the registry doesn't contain "files")actually associated with the problem at hand.

As a general maintenance sort of application, which many folks tout them as, they are pointless. In the hands of a novice user they can easily do more harm than good. Some are better, of course, at this last point than others. But in regards to the registry, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" is a better mantra than "is it not better to get rid of old registry items rather than have them lying around doing nothing". To your point there I'd say no it isn't, unless you are 100% sure beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are doing nothing. And even then, since they cause no issue, my point remains... why bother.

As part of my business, I do a lot of cleanup of messes folks have on their machines, viruses, blue screens etc. Just last week I had a guy call about a machine he had that was blue screening. He went on to explain he was "very careful and security conscious", to the point of having two anti virus apps, three anti spyware apps and two firewalls running. He had in his words "cleaned up the registry and removed a bunch of un-needed files" just before the blue screen occurred. He wondered if that session might have anything to do with the issue. Well duh, ya' think?

Gary