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Nataku
08-22-05, 12:18 AM
I have never thought about cleaning out my registry or tried one until recently.

And I know there are always good free alternatives to paying for stuff so i'm open to sugestions.

And I want to know if cleaning your registry important/as important to doing virus/spyware scans.

I know I know... I've only been using PCs for a year now so cut me some slack.
khilladi
08-22-05, 01:23 AM
ccleaner.com for CRAP CLEANER :cool:
omga14
08-22-05, 04:46 AM
downloaded this and left the default options to run the first cleaning. thing found 1,689.8mb of stuff to clean up. that's a hell of alot of space being hogged. gonna see what issues gets me. gonna do a backup of course to be safe first. don't want to screw my registry and have to reinstall.
omga14
08-22-05, 04:51 AM
there were quite a few reg issues and missing dll's. also some reg entries for games i had long ago uninstalled. well we'll see what happens from here.
Zefram
08-22-05, 09:08 AM
i use system mechanic 5, it came with all the neccessary thing to spring clean your PC..........
System Mechanic 5 (http://www.iolo.com/)
EWeezy
08-22-05, 11:01 AM
hey that crap cleaner looks like a great program....i just dled...currently running it

Omga seems like he got a ton of crap off
Juan
08-22-05, 11:08 AM
It's not free but very simple. Regsupreme(http://www.regsupreme.com/). Also if you are wanting to clean drivers checkout DriverCleanerPro(http://www.drivercleaner.net/).
EWeezy
08-22-05, 11:09 AM
i just finished the ccleaner...im scared to remove the 500MB of junk i have...dont want to delete something important...but i did totally clean my registry...

im gonna try that drivercleaner that Juan just gave
ElrichMeister
08-22-05, 01:51 PM
i just used ccleaner, and it removed 800mb of crap, nice program
AzN
08-22-05, 02:13 PM
Whoa. I had like 750 mb of "crap" on my comp. Sweet. I also had like 150 "issues". Should i fix those???
khilladi
08-22-05, 03:16 PM
back up your registry then fix em.
AzN
08-22-05, 04:15 PM
The stupid part of ccleaner is that it resets some stuff to default. Like i had to resave my passwords and crap on firefox.
khilladi
08-22-05, 05:26 PM
you could always uncheck those options under firefox in the applications thing.