Uniblue RegistryBooster 2

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I use it to clean and defrag the registry with good results. However, I know
a lot of people have strong biases against registry cleaners and feel that
they trash your registry. They may feel this way based on eperiences with
earlier registry software from the 90's, I don't know if anyone's had a bad
experience with current registry utilities, anyone?
 
Generally they do not help.

Use them only if you are fully knowledgeable in the use and backup
procedures in case something goes wrong.
Also you should be able to recognize a registry key as good or bad
before making the decision to delete/change.
Do NOT blindly accept any decision made by any of these so called
tools.
Used appropriately, you may or may not see any benefit.

For the most part, registry tools rank with snake oil and other
similar so called cures.
 
Hi,

What do you hope to accomplish from the use of one? Since Vista and XP do
not suffer from the problems of registry bloat experienced by the Win9x line
of products, the only purpose of one these tools is to make money for the
distributors. The problem most of the "general" cleaners is that they
misidentify seemingly dead entries as unneeded and remove them. At some
point later, system problems occur and the user will not likely be able to
relate the error to anything the cleaner did (instead they'll complain that
Windows is unstable or easily corrupted, when in fact it's their own fault).
The only time a registry cleaner tool should be used is when it is specific
to the removal of entries related to a particular program, and these are
generally distributed by the program vendor for free.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
 
uvbogden said:
I use it to clean and defrag the registry with good results. However, I know
a lot of people have strong biases against registry cleaners and feel that
they trash your registry. They may feel this way based on eperiences with
earlier registry software from the 90's, I don't know if anyone's had a bad
experience with current registry utilities, anyone?
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I encountered a very serious problem only once on one XP machine that I was
working on for a client immediately after using a well regarded registry
cleanup tool whose name need not be disclosed. I have used the same
utility many times and this happened only once, never before and never
since.

The problem was that immediately after I "cleaned" the registry, restarting
the machine produced a BSOD with a Stop Code that was neither revealing nor
helpful. Stupid me, I was complacent and lazy and had not first created a
full true image backup of the machine.

Clearly the client would be upset if I gave him back the machine in that
condition. I knew that my written service agreement had all the right
legalese to protect me from financial liability, but that would not save me
from damage to my reputation in this town.

All the usual "Hail Mary" efforts (Last Known Good, Safe Mode, ASR, Bart PE,
Win PE, et al) all failed to make the machine bootable from the hard disk.
The registry was obviously corrupted in some very serious way. Although I
am very familiar with the Windows Registry, at that time it was impossible
for me to identify the specific problem. This unhappy situation led me to a
new learning opportunity -- namely, I learned how to manually reconstruct
the Windows XP Registry from the Command Line.

The story has a happy ending. After a few hours of intensely focused
struggle, I was successfully able to recover the hard disk boot
functionality without any data loss. Many thanks to Microsoft for providing
me with the needed procedure. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545

A Google search for a similar knowledge base article applicable to Vista
returned mostly just the above article for XP or references to it. I don't
know if the structure of the Vista Registry is different from the XP
Registry. I rather suspect that it *IS* different since everything else is
too.

If anyone knows of a similar registry recovery article for Vista, I would be
grateful to learn where it can be found.

Meanwhile, I did like the looks of this site:
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/Using_Windows_Vista.htm#vistakb
 
Howard Leighty said:
I encountered a very serious problem only once on one XP machine that I
was
working on for a client immediately after using a well regarded registry
cleanup tool whose name need not be disclosed. I have used the same
utility many times and this happened only once, never before and never
since.
Click to expand...

I always put a clean build on any machine I buy (you should always test your
recovery procedures and you don't want to do that when you need to). So
before I wiped this one I tried an Ashampoo product that claimed to be vista
compatible and it wiped the registry out. They still keep emailing me cheap
offers even though I told them it was destructive and I would never buy it.
I must admit that I was expecting problems as registry cleaners are at best
iffy.
 
I got a Uniblue popup and let it scan my registry out of curiousity. It told
me that I had 477 registry errors, and that I could have 15 fixed for free.
That was a bit of a flashing light for me, as any fool can write a code that
will tell you anything you want it to. So if I was to download and pay for
Uniblue, and have it clean my registry for 30 bucks, or however much it
costs, how do I know that it isn't just showing me some nice pretty dialogue
boxes and it's not doing anything real? What if it makes my PC sick and I
have to pay money to Uniblue for advice on how to fix it? It's all very
fishy to me. You never know.
I decided to see what this site had for advice and I'm glad I did. I'm
getting rid of Uniblue!
 
Don't use any cleaners on your registry. Just don't. Leave it alone.
Please.

Use Auslogics to compress your registry, if you want. It's free. They also
have a good disk defragmenter. It's free, too.

I'm sure others here will chime in on this and tell you the same thing.

Take care,

mE
 
I would not recommend any Uni Blue products. I purchased the registry
booster and was sorely disappointed. It did almost nothing for my computer.

They then offered me an "extra" service to help speed my computer up even
more. Then, I heard about "C cleaner."

C cleaner is a free program that cleans all of the junk off of your hard
drive while fixing your registry. In addition, it has a quick tool for
deleting programs off of your startup menu (which is key in helping your
computer run faster.)

I use see cleaner several times a day. Save it to your desktop. It is fast
and easy to use.

When you download see cleaner, there is an option to donate through PayPal.
I gave them five dollars, as they provide an awesome product free of charge.

I paid Uni Blue $20, basically, for a fraction of what C cleaner does for
free. Avoid Uni Blue at all costs. They are just out to take your money.

Here is the link to download C cleaner:

http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/
 
avoid said:
I would not recommend any Uni Blue products. I purchased the registry
booster and was sorely disappointed. It did almost nothing for my computer.

They then offered me an "extra" service to help speed my computer up even
more. Then, I heard about "C cleaner."

C cleaner is a free program that cleans all of the junk off of your hard
drive while ...
Click to expand...


..... doing absolutely nothing to....

fixing your registry. In addition, it has a quick tool for
deleting programs off of your startup menu (which is key in helping your
computer run faster.)
Click to expand...


CCleaner's only real strength, and the only reason anyone should
use it, lies in its usefulness for cleaning up unused temporary files
from the hard drive; in this regard, it works well with Vista and is
completely harmless.

As a registry "cleaner," it's not significantly better or worse
than any other snake oil product of the same type. CCleaner's registry
scanner seems relatively benign, as long as you step through each
detected "issue" one at a time, to determine if it really is an "issue"
or not, and then decide whether or not to let the application "fix" it.
In my testing, though, most (95% or so) of the reported "issues"
aren't issues, at all. I tried the latest version on a brand-new OS
installation with no additional applications installed, and certainly
none installed and then uninstalled, and CCleaner still managed to
"find" over a hundred allegedly orphaned registry entries and dozens of
purportedly "suspicious" files, making it clearly a worthless product,
in this regard. (Not that any registry cleaner can ever be anything but
worthless, as they don't serve any useful purpose, to start with.)


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Stay away from uniblue registrybooster 2!!! I got the not so bright idea to
purchase booster2 and tweaker. After running the scan it found 505 problems,
so i ran the cleanup. BIG mistake! After that, my computer got really stupid.
Evidently it screwed up my drivers. I could not connect to the net for
support. had to look really hard for uniblue support # that ended up being in
Malta that no one would answer! It also screwed up my wireless broadband
connection. so i called verizon support they had me uninstall VZAM ant try to
reinstall using my disc. Good luck with that! The drivers to my cd-rom
drivers are screwed and my drives dont work! Good luck trying to restore
anything using discs. After that i tried using Uniblue to restore what it was
supposed to have removed. Good luck with that too!! Tried to do a system
restore to a restore point before Uniblue. Tried eight different dates back
to Oct. 1, Good luck with that too!! Finally with the help of a tech. from
toast.net I was able to fix my ip problem and connect using dial-up. Then
download VZAM (2.5 Hours) so that i could find a fix for my problems. It has
been three days of wasted time to get this far and I still have problems! MS
Support here I come! What's another $60.00 anyway? P.S I bought a new cd-rom
drive and installed it and the drivers on it wouldn't allow it to run
either!! This was on a XP machine
 
Tony said:
Stay away from uniblue registrybooster 2!!! I got the not so bright idea
to
purchase booster2 and tweaker. After running the scan it found 505
problems,
so i ran the cleanup. BIG mistake! After that, my computer got really
stupid.
Evidently it screwed up my drivers. I could not connect to the net for
support. had to look really hard for uniblue support # that ended up being
in
Malta that no one would answer! It also screwed up my wireless broadband
connection. so i called verizon support they had me uninstall VZAM ant try
to
reinstall using my disc. Good luck with that! The drivers to my cd-rom
drivers are screwed and my drives dont work! Good luck trying to restore
anything using discs. After that i tried using Uniblue to restore what it
was
supposed to have removed. Good luck with that too!! Tried to do a system
restore to a restore point before Uniblue. Tried eight different dates
back
to Oct. 1, Good luck with that too!! Finally with the help of a tech. from
toast.net I was able to fix my ip problem and connect using dial-up. Then
download VZAM (2.5 Hours) so that i could find a fix for my problems. It
has
been three days of wasted time to get this far and I still have problems!
MS
Support here I come! What's another $60.00 anyway? P.S I bought a new
cd-rom
drive and installed it and the drivers on it wouldn't allow it to run
either!! This was on a XP machine
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Just the name...Registry Booster...lol.
I guess if you remove all the words from a Word document...it will open
faster.
My next project .... Word Booster!
LOL.

Sorry you got scammed.

A clean install would be my next move.
 
The best knowledge i can share:
1) do not use registry cleaners or compressors if it's not critical
2) always do backups of registry before you use registry cleaners or
compressors.
3) do not (!) use tweakers in any situation.

i can explain:
registry: MS haven't it's own mechanism to clean or compress registry, so
any tool is made by 3rd party without any guarantee, and without knowledge
how to do this things right.

tweakers: source code of windows is closed, and there is no magician
programmers who can fix MS code without source code. So this tweakers just
switch way of work between "stable" and "unstable", removing some checks, or
smth else. And the worsted thing, is that you couldn't know what this tweaker
really did.
Example: You may launch a tweaker and close it with minor changes, or
without any changes, but upon opening, or applying your little changes,
tweaker will check your registry for some keys, and CREATE some missing keys,
which you leave untouched in tweaks. And God only know, how your system will
react on them, if default meaning of non-existent key was different of
default set by tweaker.
 
Windessy said:
The best knowledge i can share:
1) do not use registry cleaners or compressors if it's not critical
2) always do backups of registry before you use registry cleaners or
compressors.
3) do not (!) use tweakers in any situation.

i can explain:
registry: MS haven't it's own mechanism to clean or compress registry, so
any tool is made by 3rd party without any guarantee, and without knowledge
how to do this things right.

tweakers: source code of windows is closed, and there is no magician
programmers who can fix MS code without source code. So this tweakers just
switch way of work between "stable" and "unstable", removing some checks,
or
smth else. And the worsted thing, is that you couldn't know what this
tweaker
really did.
Example: You may launch a tweaker and close it with minor changes, or
without any changes, but upon opening, or applying your little changes,
tweaker will check your registry for some keys, and CREATE some missing
keys,
which you leave untouched in tweaks. And God only know, how your system
will
react on them, if default meaning of non-existent key was different of
default set by tweaker.
Click to expand...

I happen to use this program with all three categories, the registry
booster, driver update and system performance.
All three worked perfectly without any negative side effects to the system,
to the contrary, the results were positive, as promised.
After all, it's just a booster, not a tweak, as you say.
I am not trying to put in a plug for them, but what's right is right.
On second thought, it may have something to do with the configuration, but
that's entirely up to the user.

Harry.
 
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