Regcleaner

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More items found is not automatically good IMO. When I used a
regcleaner type program some time ago I lost a number of shell
extensions that were important to me. It took a bit of effort to
restore everything.
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True. You have to be selective about what you delete. But that's not
what I was talking about.


Art
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg
 
Used to be RegCleaner; no longer available. The developer raised
the bar and launched Jj16 Power Tools a couple of years ago...
http://www.jv16.org/

-- Regards, Peter
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Whether the author raised the bar or lowered it is open to debate.
None of the versions of JV16 Power Tools that I tried on my system
ever worked properly, and now it has gone from freeware to
pay-through-the-nose ware. Personally, I think when it was free,
it cost too much.
 
(e-mail address removed) (Santiago Roza Kq) wrote in
The best freeware registry cleaner, now that jv16 has gone
shareware, is RegSeeker:
http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm

If you have any doubts, check out this link:
http://web.archive.org/web/20030202001447/www.vtoy.fi/jv16/shtml/re
gistry_test.shtml (before jv16 went shareware, it used to post
comparisons between the different cleaners... and RegSeeker was
the only one that always got the 100%)
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Agreed. Pricelessware all the way.
 
bassbag said:
mmm..strange i dont see that option..i have 16 grid box options but none
of them have the start menu option that the previous version had i.e
finding and removing program folders that may be left after registry
cleaning.Thers an add/remove button for the programmes in the add/remove
list and a start up button for registry entries but i still dont see the
start menu option.Are you using easy cleaner 2 beta 2?
me
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Yes. It's in the second row, third tile over (under Duplicates).
 
John Fitzsimons said:
More items found is not automatically good IMO. When I used a
regcleaner type program some time ago I lost a number of shell
extensions that were important to me. It took a bit of effort to
restore everything.
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That's why the undo files come in so handy. :)
 
Yes. It's in the second row, third tile over (under Duplicates).
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That button is for start up items (registry run keys etc)that start up
with windows.Its not like the start menu button that was in the previous
incarnation.When you uninstalled AVG for example it would leave the
grisoft folder as most other apps do.The start menu button in the
previous release would search through the start menu items (start>
programs)and list uninstalled items that were still there and allow you
to delete them.
me
 
bassbag said:
That button is for start up items (registry run keys etc)that start up
with windows.Its not like the start menu button that was in the previous
incarnation.When you uninstalled AVG for example it would leave the
grisoft folder as most other apps do.The start menu button in the
previous release would search through the start menu items (start>
programs)and list uninstalled items that were still there and allow you
to delete them.
me
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Ah. Sorry, my mistake.
 
That button is for start up items (registry run keys etc)that start up
with windows.Its not like the start menu button that was in the previous
incarnation.When you uninstalled AVG for example it would leave the
grisoft folder as most other apps do.The start menu button in the
previous release would search through the start menu items (start>
programs)and list uninstalled items that were still there and allow you
to delete them.
me
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While it is less obvious (and more clumsy?) than in previous versions,
the "Shortcut" tile will list Start Menu items that don't point to a
valid application.

At the end of the day, thats all the start menu is - a list of
shortcuts, so I guess this approach is valid, but I think the previous
version was more logical..

Chocker
 
ck2320 said:
While it is less obvious (and more clumsy?) than in previous versions,
the "Shortcut" tile will list Start Menu items that don't point to a
valid application.

At the end of the day, thats all the start menu is - a list of
shortcuts, so I guess this approach is valid, but I think the previous
version was more logical..

Chocker
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You are correct ...i over looked that button and yes it does the same
thing
thanks
me
 
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