More comprehensive registry clean!

[Manuel S.]

Hello:

 

If you run Wise Registry Cleaner and Piriform CCleaner Registry tool, you will realize that both do clean the same for:

 

-Missing Shared Dlls

-Fonts

-Application Paths

-Help files

-Run at startup

-Start Menu Ordering

-File Types: CCleaner detects more invalid file types than Wise Reg cleaner.

 

Wise Registry Cleaner has these additional features:

-Sound and AppEvents

-IE Url History

 

Wise Registry Cleaner will beat CCleaner in these features:

-User MRU lists (HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache\, WRC will list all files there, CCleaner only lists missing files)

-Empty Keys (if it's CCleaner Obsolete Software, Wise Reg Cleaner will find much more empty keys!)

-Installer+ActiveX+TypeLibs: CCleaner will find 117 wrong entries, Wise Reg Cleaner will find 359, including Windows Updates and stuff from HKCR\Installer\Patches\

 

I Hope you checked those issues! [using CCleaner from Jan 28th]

 

Thanks.

[marmite]

-IE Url History

These are 'genuine' key values not registry inconsistencies: CCleaner removes those in the main cleaning operation.

 

-User MRU lists (HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache\, WRC will list all files there, CCleaner only lists missing files)

Then CCleaner is doing the better job. Again, the values for exiting files are 'genuine' values not registry inconsistencies.

 

Sometimes less is more! There are no absolutes in registry cleaning software; only 'less safe' and 'safer'. CCleaner tries to be 'safer'!

[Manuel S.]

These are 'genuine' key values not registry inconsistencies: CCleaner removes those in the main cleaning operation.

 

 

Then CCleaner is doing the better job. Again, the values for exiting files are 'genuine' values not registry inconsistencies.

 

Sometimes less is more! There are no absolutes in registry cleaning software; only 'less safe' and 'safer'. CCleaner tries to be 'safer'!

 

I think IE URL history and MRU are trash.

 

But specifically, I tried to remove windows update files and CCleaner did left lots of keys in registry, like:

 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Updates\Windows XP\SP4\KB969059\UninstallCommand

Data: C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB969059$\spuninst\spuninst.exe

 

And many empty keys were not detected:

 

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-456795690-10365130-2382912392-1006\Software\FormatFactory\FormatFactory\... [30 empty folders inside it]

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-456795690-10365130-2382912392-1006\Software\FreeDownloadManager.ORG\Free Download Manager\... [8 empty foldersinside]

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-456795690-10365130-2382912392-1006\Software\Level 27 Technologies\SquawkBox\... [3 empty folders inside]

... and more!

 

Thanks!!

[marmite]

I think IE URL history and MRU are trash.

You're missing my point.

 

CCleaner's reg cleaner tries to identify inconsistencies in the registry; it's an integrity checker. IE URL history entries are not inconsistencies. Whether or not you want them there is neither here nor there.

 

However these entries are not essential to registry integrity and contain data about users' browsing habits, so CCleaner does allow you to remove these via it's ordinary cleaning options. And this is as it should be.

 

And many empty keys were not detected:

 

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-456795690-10365130-2382912392-1006\Software\FreeDownloadManager.ORG\Free Download Manager\... [8 empty foldersinside]

Why is this an issue? I have FreeDownloadManager installed. And yes there are many empty keys. But it is not any registry cleaner's responsibility to determine what keys are required by an installed program; whether those keys are empty or not. Any registry cleaner that does remove these is reckless.

 

See this current thread for more discussion on empty keys ... http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=26546&hl=

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[Ishi]

You're missing my point.

 

 

 

See this current thread for more discussion on empty keys ... http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=26546&hl=

Actually, the app I was talking about in that thread was also Wise Registry Cleaner which I only install and use as a last resort when I think there are invalid registry entries that are obviously slowing the system a bit that my other registry cleaners can't detect.