Re: whats the best recommended vista 64bit registry cleaner
Hi, Damien.
The best Vista Ultimate x64 registry cleaner is, without a doubt...: Vista!
I've been running Ultimate x64 since it "went gold" a year ago (and through
about a dozen beta builds before that). I've never used a registry cleaner
on it, and I don't plan to. Yes, I did run such programs back in Win9x
days, and even in Win2K. But WinXP never needed one, and neither does
Vista. It maintains its own registry much better than older versions did,
including removing entries when it uninstalls an application.
Oh, I well remember the many hours over several years that I whiled away
with Symantec's fluff-laden updates of Norton's original lean Utilities.
Those programs delighted in warning me of all kinds of dire consequences if
I didn't take their advice and eliminate some obsolete pointer to something.
But, eventually, those subscriptions expired and I didn't renew them.
Norton Internet Security 2005 was the last one, but they never updated it to
cover the WinXP x64 that I was running before Vista. I installed Vista
without any such protection at all - and I've never missed it! So long as
you "practice safe hex", you probably won't miss them, either. The more you
use them, the more you have to use them! :>(
I've seen several horror stories of systems having been screwed up by
registry cleaners and other such programs. I have yet to see a report of a
registry cleaner having helped with Vista. Have you seen one?
RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail beta 2 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1 beta v.275)
"damien" <damien@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> hi people i have vista 64bit OS and i cant seem to find a good FULLY 64bit
> compatible registy cleaner for my pc and i was hoping that someone could
> help
> me out finding a good one that is...
>
> 1- fully 64bit compatible
> 2- does everything a reg cleaner should do
>
> i dont mind paying for the app and i dont mind how much the software costs
> as long as its good and compatible, so please dont just post freeware apps