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[Gabriel]

Hoi my deckiing friends. Does anyone know where I can get my hands on a really good registy cleaner program for free??? I have checked on Download.com and even though most of them are listed as freeware or shareware, none of them will do a complete scan and repair unless you spend something like $30.00. If anyone can help me upt here I would appreciate it. I've got a TON of registry errors I need to clean up (according to these programs) and I would like to get it taken care of before my PC turns into another paper weight.

Gabriel

[kv]

I would reccommend "Hijack This," but I don't know anything that specifically cleans the registry.

  -kv

[Ruski]

RegRun Gold '350' is a program i've used in the past.
the 'trial' is free at download.com, and works for a couple of days, it would be good for a one shot cleanup.
*shrug* worked for me anyways.

personally, I like the tools included in norton systemworks.
they have an awsome registry cleaner.

although you can't beat the price on the original:
regedit
LOL
just go [start] -> [run]
regedit
and voalla! get out your search tools, and clean it up by hand! hahahaha

-RuskiFace the Pirate

[Gabriel]

Thanks for the paydata, chummer. I'll give that one a try. But do you think I should just get one at the $30.00 price? Or, I guess a better question would be: is it worth it for me to pay for one of these programs? Will it automatically fix registry problems when the happen or do I have to run it periodically like Nortan or AdAware? A professional opinion on this would be very welcomed.

Gabriel

[Ruski]

if you are going to pay $30, you may as well pick up Norton Systemworks.
I think it's $39.99, and it does a hell of a lot more than a registry scan.

it's good to clean out the registry, but really, even the best of scanners can only do so much after a point.

you can go in manually and tune up a registry, but according to microsoft; you should re-format your system every couple of years to make sure the registry stays in good shape.
if it's been a long time... and the system is slowing down to the point that it's painfull, and there are a bunch of programs in there that you can't get rid of...
it may be time to back up your data and do a low-level format of the drive.
then again, it's always a good idea to back up your important data before messing with the registry.
or, it's just a good idea to backup your data period.
-RuskiFace the Pirate

[Ingo Monk]

The only tool I use by Norton is Ghost, which could be useful in this scenario.  

Back up your data, format the drive and start over leaving a 5 or 6 GB partion unused.  Once you've got your system set up again, use Ghost to create a backup image so that in the future if you ever need to redo your system just pop in the ghost CD and reimage the sucker.

I really don't know Norton Systemworks though, for all it's usefulness just be prepared to reformat if Systemworks has a problem.  I've worked on a bunch of PCs that I couldn't repair due to Systemworks failing.  It integrates itself so deeply into the system and registry there's no way to fully uninstall it.

[Ruski]

You can pull it out... but be prepared to go into the registry by hand, and pull stuff out.

then be prepared to re-install parts of the operating system (like the default system tools) you can do it with the 'add and remove software' windows tab under the controll panel.

probibly take just as much time as reformatting... but it's possible.

-Ruski

[Gabriel]

Ah, frag all of this drek. Does anyone make housecalls instead???

Gabriel (I may have a cybernetic arm, but that don't mean I know hoe to work on the damn thing)

[Ruski]

Sure, I make housecalls, but if it's not within walking distance, I charge gas money.

-Ruski

[Gabriel]

Aw, bugger.

Gabriel

[Ruski]

really, the first thing to do, whenever you start to have system problems, is back up all your really important things.
(like, taxes and your resume, perhaps some multi-billion dollar project you are working on)
then, back up your semi-important things.
wedding photos, that book that you've been writing for a couple of years, and your parrent's taxes.
then back up the things that would be a pain to replace, should they get lost.
like all of your stolen MP3's, that shadowrun charichter your wrote up forever ago, and the save-game files for whatever games you are currently working on.
that's just in case, in the course of 'tweaking' everything, should something go wrong,... like it sometimes does... you'll be able to go back and not lose any data.
and, if everything goes fine, you'll have a nice archive of everything important, should things go wrong later.
once you've got that far, I could walk you through most of the process of working on thoes things, as well as 'obtaining' copies of programs you'll need to do some of the repairs.
-Ruski