[bonkers72]

Anyone know anything about Registry Patrol? Is it ok to run, without screwing up your pc? Sounds good as far as another general cleaning program to use. Thanks.

[Noyb]

Most here at TSG will not recommend messing with the registry .. Can do more harm than good.
Have you Googled ???

http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6138_102...sageID=1871431
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...7135957AAwj4NY

What cleaning apps are you currently running ???

[bonkers72]

Ok thanks..........Cleaning Apps....CleanDisk security,Cleanup!, Pc Pitstop optimize, CCleaner,Spybot, Ad-Aware, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware,SpywareBlaster,SuperAntiSpyware, Defraggler.

[Noyb]

Do you run CCleaner immediately before scanning with Spybot, Ad-Aware, SuperAntiSpyware ..etc ... ?
You look a little Paranoid to me

[Noyb]

I just noticed .. WinPatrol is missing ... http://www.winpatrol.com/download.html

I have CCleaner trained to clean my Cookies .. All but the ones I want to keep.
Occasionally .. I may scan with SAS .. But it never finds anything.

[bonkers72]

Never had any kind of sequence on what to run when. She's clean as a whistle though.
Win patrol..........good to have I take it.

[Noyb]

Stops stuff from adding to your startups .. (at your option) .. before they get there.
and some other perks ..

[redoak]

I agree- WinPatrol is a well worth having program!

Below is extended discourse re Registry "cleaners." Leave them be!
{redoak}

Advice and Info re Registry 'cleaners'- excerpts from TSG, 10-07

The main reason they (are apt to cause problems) is because the cleaners do NOT just clean up stuff left over from uninstalls. They also "guess" that other items need to be deleted, many times incorrectly. They also attempt to "fix" references to files that no longer exist.

As a result, you can end up with programs that no longer work, functions that no longer work and in some cases a PC that will no longer boot.

There is no performance gains to be had by running these things. Windows does not read the entire registry when it is looking for something. It uses the keys which allow them to go straight to the item that they are looking for.

References:
http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=643
http://www.computerhope.com/registry.htm


If you really want to see how active the registry is in your normal running environment, download and run Regmon.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...on/Regmon.mspx

As you will see, the registry is constantly being accessed. If, for each of these, the entire file was being searched, your PC would be amazingly slow and not responsive.