[aarhus2004]

Hello,

RegSeeker is a major contributor of excellence in terms of Registry maintenance and cleaning. After using it for two years I have concluded it has to be up there with the very best in a packed field of freeware which offer the same/similar operation.

I now use it with impunity and I have never had to use it's backups facility.

It offers a comprehensive History cleanup tool and much more besides. Interestingly, in view of another thread of mine here (Speed Up your Start Menu), in a selection of 'Tweaks' that is one tweak on offer.

Its GUI is beautifully clean-cut and it is simple to use. Download it here:

http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm

Here are a couple of images.

[GoJoAGoGo]

Ben:

I noticed that in your first attachment that you have Add "Command Prompt" in context menu checked. I also checked that one, but the Command Prompt doesn't appear in my context menu. Does it appear in your context menu?

[hewee]

Is this thing good and safe to use?
I mean it says beta on it.

[GoJoAGoGo]

hewee:

RegSeeker is as good or perhaps better than JV16 Power Tools. As far as safe goes, any registry cleaning tool is only as safe as you use it. You must be familiar and careful with the files you choose to delete. They do backup the deleted files.

[hewee]

Thanks gojo. I will check it out.

[Elvandil]

It's as safe as any and safer than some. The "beta" designation doesn't mean much on freeware. Look at "Download Accelerator Beta"---it has become part of the name!

The "beta" designation just allows for more warnings and less liability on the part of the makers. After all, would you want to be sued for something you gave away for free in the first place?

But the old RegCleaner that is now for sale is also one of the best. You can still get it for free if you look around:

Jouni Vuorio's original RegCleaner 4.3.780

And RegScrubXP 3.25 is still around, too:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=2048

[hewee]

Yea I know they are only as safe as I let them be.

[mach9]

aarhus2004:
Have RegSeeker and love it., also.

[aarhus2004]

Joe,

The 'Command Prompt' appears in the context menu only when relevant. So I find.

Elvandil,

Thanks for a good post. I use jv16pt* alongside RegSeeker. I am happy with the two of them. (* = see post above for a link)

hewee,

If you use it, and I hope you do, your feedback will be appreciated.

mach9

Glad to hear you use it. Maybe we should start a club!!

[hewee]

Originally Posted by mach9

aarhus2004:
Have RegSeeker and love it., also.

I just ran a scan and it found almost 900 things.

I know lots of it is from programs and files that are deleted or moved.
But some things I don't know what they are pointing to.

Guess I could clean thngs by doing a scam and only checking one box for the scan to keep the amount of the thing smaller and fix things in groups a little at a time and see how thing are. If all is good then clean more.

aarhus2004,
What type of feed back.
I wish it let you copy the list so I could post it. I did delete just a couple of things I knew I could and you can open the backup of the file and get what was delete.
So I guess I could delete things and then go to the backup and right click it and pick edit and copy the list to notepad and post that here.
So if anyone knows more can help out.

[GoJoAGoGo]

hewee:

The Green Entries are safe to remove. The Red Entries will need to dealt with caution, except the Red Entries that say "Extension Not Used" as I found these are also safe to remove.

You can take a snap shot of the entries with Print Screen or any other snap shot tool and paste the snap shot into the Paint Program and then save it as a JPEG File.

[hewee]

Originally Posted by GoJoAGoGo

hewee:

The Green Entries are safe to remove. The Red Entries will need to dealt with caution, except the Red Entries that say "Extension Not Used" as I found these are also safe to remove.

You can take a snap shot of the entries with Print Screen or any other snap shot tool and paste the snap shot into the Paint Program and then save it as a JPEG File.

Thanks that help a lot for some of what needs to be cleaned.
Don't know about posting it all as a image because it would be long with the 856 things listed. Well a 101 pages is not to looooooooong.

But I have lots of green ones that say...
file or path does not exist
or
obsolete entry

Then the red one's say...
extension not used --- but they point to the reg. so don't know what they are or do.
and
invadlid activeX/com entry (CLSID) --- but they point to the reg. so don't know what they are or do.
and
file type not used --- but they point to the reg. so don't know what they are or do. I can see some are or was for a program I don't have.

But cleaning up the green ones will cut down on the list.
Man it should let me pick "all green" with one click. This is going to take me some time to do. I will do it buy doing a scan on one thing at a time to cut down on the list.

[brindle]

Hewee
There is no way I would suggest that you do as I with these entries. I will tell you how I handle them though.

But I have lots of green ones that say...
file or path does not exist
or
obsolete entry.....DELETE THEM

Then the red one's say...
extension not used --- but they point to the reg. so don't know what they are or do. DELETE THEM

and
invadlid activeX/com entry (CLSID) --- but they point to the reg. so don't know what they are or do. DELETE THEM

and
file type not used --- but they point to the reg. so don't know what they are or do. I can see some are or was for a program I don't have.

DELETE THEM AND FOR SOME REASON THEY ALWAYS SHOW UP WITH THE NEXT SCAN.
I don't know what OS you run but with 98\se I can export the register to the desktop and if things go badly you can always restore the registry with the backup I exported.

But cleaning up the green ones will cut down on the list.
Man it should let me pick "all green" with one click. This is going to take me some time to do.

[hewee]

Thanks you guys for all the tips.

Well gojo I was meaning pointing to the registry in that it did not say anything else that shows the drive, folder and file names that made it easy to know what entry it was talking about. So it only had info you see in the registry only.

I have 98SE brindle. Can I just highlite the list and right click export. I did that on one thing I know is not on my PC and it exported it to the backup folder but it is still in the list.

But what I need to do is get things all cleaned up and then keep using like gojo say so your learn what goes with what or where some came from or may of came from.

Guess I got almost 33 months of junk and I know lots of installs and install. Moveing things around and deleting etc.

[hewee]

Just did all the HKEY_USERS so 591 to go.