A good free registry cleaner

[Nathan]

Anybody know of a good one?

[Nathan]

Re: A good free registry cleaner

Tried downloading CCleaner and it shutdown IE. Maybe the firewall didn't like it.

[Abraham Smashington]

Re: A good free registry cleaner

http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=643

A good article on why you shouldn't use a registry cleaner. I'd suggest just getting rid of Vista... hehe

[Nathan]

Re: A good free registry cleaner

I wish I could. Actually, this is for work. Some machines here have had a lot of crap put on them throught their lifetimes. Some machines seem to run more slowly than others and I was trying to eliminate some crashing issues we've had. That has more to do with a lack of RAM more than anything but I am trying to squeeze as much performance as I can out of these machines.

[Abraham Smashington]

Re: A good free registry cleaner

Well then I'm assuming you've defragged, cleaned up temp files, etc etc...

I know here we'd just back up data and do a reinstall...You could also go into the registry and start googling keys.

[Nathan]

Re: A good free registry cleaner

Oh yeah, I run AdAware often and defrag every week or so. I'm skittish about messing with the reegistry myself. Don't know enough about it.

[Abraham Smashington]

Re: A good free registry cleaner

Are you getting specific DLL errors or anything?

[Nathan]

Re: A good free registry cleaner

No. Techs at night are getting freeze-ups and blue screens of death occasionally. I think it is a lack of RAM or something using it up so that the data collection software doesn't have enough. Our main software is a resource hog, so it needs as much memory as possible. I've talked with the manufacturer's tech support, and they weren;t much help beyond " Well, have you gotten the lastest version of the software."

[Abraham Smashington]

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Do these computer have decent HD space? Have you upped the VRAM?

[Nathan]

Re: A good free registry cleaner

HD space is fine. Don't know much about VRAM.

[Abraham Smashington]

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If you right click on "My Computer" and click properties a new window pops up. Then select "advanced" Then click on settings under Performance. Then select Advanced again. Then go down where it says Virtual Memory and see what your setting are at. It basically uses HD space as if it were RAM. Usually the higher the better in most cases. Like right now, my work machine is set at 756 MB and I'm running 256 megs of actual ram. Just an idea to see if it works. It can't hurt to up it and see what happens.

[Nathan]

Re: A good free registry cleaner

Thanks! I'll take a look and see whats what.

[Abraham Smashington]

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I hope that didn't come off as patronizing. Lol. I'm just used to doing posts like that as I kinda do help desk work as part of my current job.

[Nathan]

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Not at all. But if this kills the computer I am coming to Minnesota to eat your face. ;D

[Nathan]

Re: A good free registry cleaner

Ok, it is set at 768 MB. Recommended says 1150. Hmmmmm. What would Rob do? Rob?