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Cleaning up the Windows registry
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 1:58 pm
by greyhoundcode
OK so nothing to do with PHP, but ...
Anyone had any experience with registry clean-up tools? Any recommendations?
Regedit would be fine if there was some way of figuring out what is redundant and what's not, sadly there doesn't seem to be

Re: Cleaning up the Windows registry
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 7:03 pm
by Doug G
Back when I had Norton Systemworks I used it's registry cleaner a couple times. My recommendation? If you're not having some specific problem, don't run a registry cleaner just for the heck of it. Typically even if you clean out some orphaned path or object, you won't see any difference in the way your computer runs.
Re: Cleaning up the Windows registry
Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 12:52 am
by Cirdan
I've used and would recommend
Crap Cleaner
Re: Cleaning up the Windows registry
Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 6:41 am
by greyhoundcode
Yeah tried CCleaner, seems pretty good
Wasn't for a specific problem as such, just trying to speed up an ancient laptop that's had a great many different bits of software installed and (sometimes unsuccessfully) uninstalled.