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Grabbed a serial, thanks CraigMartin.
Thank you Craig, I'll grab this before it expires!
There a many reg cleaners out there and most IMO do more harm than good. Whats the word on this one? Is it considered safe or aggressive?
Installed and scanned with it. It found mostly some "invalid" file extensions, that my other cleaners don't found.
I didn't remove then though, because i'm not so sure that they really are invalid. I think that most of those founded file extensions would be re-created, when i launch the app that has created them.
I tried out Registry Mechanic 6.0, and ended up removing it because the exclusions weren't being saved. Sure it's faster than previous versions but that doesn't mean s**t since the exclusions won't save.
I then went right back to Registry Mechanic 5.0 and found out that if you run Liveupdate it will make the license key invalid!
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It took me a few minutes to figure out what was going on with about a half dozen uninstall and reinstalls to know what to do:
If you use version 5.0 you should delete liveupdate.exe located in it's program folder so that you don't mistakenly run Liveupdate because the consequence of doing so is grave.
If you mistakenly run Liveupdate with version 5.0 you'll be forced to re-input the license key each and every damn time you use Registry Mechanic v5.0.
Installed and scanned with it. It found mostly some "invalid" file extensions, that my other cleaners don't found.
I didn't remove then though, because i'm not so sure that they really are invalid. I think that most of those founded file extensions would be re-created, when i launch the app that has created them.
It found tons of false positives on my system, out of 57 things it found only 3 from the list were items I deemed invalid. The other stuff I didn't want to mess with.
It found tons of false positives on my system, out of 57 things it found only 3 from the list were items I deemed invalid. The other stuff I didn't want to mess with.
What kind of false positive entries it (mostly) found? Like i mentioned, for me it mostly found "invalid" file extensions (13 entries). ...Just did some research and ended up to remove 2 of those founded extensions.
Between CCleaner, EasyCleaner and Registry Mechanic, RM is the only one that continually picks up "System Volume Information-Restore" invalid entries.
And even after the long thread we had recently, I'm still unsure what to do with these entries.
After that recent discussion, I excluded C: System Volume Information from the scan, but within a few weeks, including System Volume again showed up hundreds of "invalid" entries.
99% of these entries were related to stuff I'd downloaded onto my partition, D: drive, tested and binned.
These are programs etc I don't want back on my system in the event of needing to do a Restore.
What to do??? Leave them and let them build up into 100's of invalid entries, or "fix" them with RM.
Between CCleaner, EasyCleaner and Registry Mechanic, RM is the only one that continually picks up "System Volume Information-Restore" invalid entries.
I have disabled system restore and RM didn't found any 'System Volume Information-Restore' entries.
There a many reg cleaners out there and most IMO do more harm than good. Whats the word on this one? Is it considered safe or aggressive?
So I will take it that this Reg cleaner is as dangerous as the rest?
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What kind of false positive entries it (mostly) found? Like i mentioned, for me it mostly found "invalid" file extensions (13 entries).
Well it found at least 1 dozen uninstall references to software that was currently installed like Adobe Reader, and my ISP software Qwest QuickCare, etc. It only found one invalid filetype for the .dat extension since nothing opens those files.
RM is the only one that continually picks up "System Volume Information-Restore" invalid entries.
Yup, it found one of those on my system, and I thought there's no way I'm even messing with those.
I was gonna post this offer. I even (as a Reg Mech fan) bought the mag it was in, but after trying it out was highly disappointed. I've got Reg Mech 5 and think it's excellent, but this version just had too many niggles for my liking. Most annoying for me being the junk files cleaner they've added. Instead of adding it as a separate option it's lumped in with one of the reg cleaner options, so if you untick the junk files it also doesn't clean one of the reg cleaner sections. Or you have to manually go through the results and untick all the junk files (necessary as the junk files it was picking up were too indiscrininate for my liking, ie all .temp and .bak files).
Shall be sticking with version 5.
I was gonna post this offer. I even (as a Reg Mech fan) bought the mag it was in, but after trying it out was highly disappointed. I've got Reg Mech 5 and think it's excellent, but this version just had too many niggles for my liking. Most annoying for me being the junk files cleaner they've added. Instead of adding it as a separate option it's lumped in with one of the reg cleaner options, so if you untick the junk files it also doesn't clean one of the reg cleaner sections. Or you have to manually go through the results and untick all the junk files (necessary as the junk files it was picking up were too indiscrininate for my liking, ie all .temp and .bak files).
Shall be sticking with version 5.
Where can I get version 5.
I just stick with CCleaner and NTREGOPT . Any other tweaking with the registry is a bit too much for my tastes.
What about the other features RM has? The optimization tweaks and compacting of the Reg. Anybody notice any improvements on their machines after using these other features?
What about the other features RM has? The optimization tweaks and compacting of the Reg. Anybody notice any improvements on their machines after using these other features?
The optimisation tweaks are crap and best left alone and I've never tested the compacting feature as I use NTRegOpt for that (I trust NTRegOpt).
well im using TuneUp Utilities 2007(paid version)..is registry mechanic better? any opinions?
Pretty much agree with Dennis and Craig. Have been using RM 7 since it was released and basically let it clean what it finds -- everything seems OK -- no problems at all.